A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

Index A-45

Day of the Barricades (1588), 135

Dayton Peace Agreement, 1211, 1212

D-Day, see Normandy invasion (1944)

Dead Christ, The (Mantegna), 69, 69

Deak, Ferencz, 679

death camps, see concentration/extermination

camps

Death of Marat, The (David), 466

Debussy, Claude, 813

Decembrist revolt, 591-93, 592, 705, 708

Declaration of Independence (U.S.; 1776),

417, 448, 631

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citi­

zen (France; 1789), 447, 448, 451,

458, 631, 1114

Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of

Russia (Russia), 953

Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and

Exploited People (Russia; 1918), 945

Declaratory Act (Great Britain; 1766), 415

Decline of the West, The (Spengler), 1012

decolonization, 1106, 1147, 1160-75, 1172,

1185-86

deductive reasoning, 298-99

Defenestration of Prague (1618), 126, 149,

154

Defoe, Daniel, 367, 379

Degas, Edgar, 803, 804

de Gaulle, Charles, 1062, 1084, 1089-90,

1095, 1111, 1128, 1128, 1129, 1226

Fifth Republic founded by, 1170

French mission as seen by, 1170-71

May 1968 protests and, 1178-80

Degrelle, Leon, 1019

Dejeuner sur Vherbe (Manet), 802, 803

Delacroix, Eugene, 590, 591, 597

Delcasse, Theophile, 872

Delors, Jacques, 1228

Democratic Party (Albania), 1205, 1206

Democratic Party (Germany), 958

Democratic-Socialists (France), 638, 733

Democratic Union (Poland), 1197

Demoiselles dIAvignon, Les (Picasso), 816, 817

Denmark, 270, 271, 276, 278, 1225

agriculture in, 363, 1125

American Revolution and, 418

in Danish-Prussian War of 1864, 664-66,

666, 679

education in, 775

1848 unrest in, 613

eighteenth-century nationalism in, 345

as emerging state, 18

in European organizations, 1226, 1227,

1228,1230

inter-war politics in, 993

monarchy of, 246

in NATO, 1115

nobles of, 246, 380

overseas trade of, 418

peasants in, 358

population growth in, 516

post-World War II politics in, 1130

Reformation in, 100

as social democracy, 982

Struensee’s reform movement in, 424

in Thirty Years’ War, 151 -52

and War of the Austrian Succession, 395

welfare state in, 1126, 1184

in World War II, 1057, 1061, 1075,

1078-79

department stores, 743, 778-79

depressions, economic, in late nineteenth

century, 744-45

see also Great Depression

Deroin, Jeanne, 639

Descartes, Rene, 298-99, 299, 303-4, 306,

309,311

detention camps, 1174, 1237

see also concentration/extermination camps

Dettingen, Battle of (1743), 395

Dewey, George, 841

Diaghilev, Serge, 811,811

Dialogue Concerning Two World Systems­

Ptolemaic and Copemican (Galileo),

298

diamonds, in South Africa, 832, 855

Diana, princess of Wales, 1182

Dias, Bartholomew, 36

Dickens, Charles, 541, 553

dictatorship, in inter-war period, 993

dictatorship, in the inter-war period, 1001

Diderot, Denis, 316-17, 317, 320-23, 321,

322, 328, 335-36, 337, 343, 344, 348

Dien Bien Phu, Battle of (1954), 1167,1168,

1169

Diesel, Rudolf, 753

Diet of Speyer (1526), 100

Diet of Speyer (1529), 106

Diet of Worms, 95

Diggers, 221

Diplomatic Revolution (1756), 394, 397-99

Directory, during French Revolution, 433,

470, 471-72, 472, 473, 480, 482, 495

Discourse on Method (Descartes), 298, 309

Discourse on the Arts and Sciences

(Rousseau), 324

disease, 6, 18-19, 33, 170, 516, 558, 805-6

bubonic plague, 4, 12, 18-19, 40, 42, 46,

160, 166

and conquest of Americas, 40, 42, 170, 196

disestablishment, of Church of England, 693,

699