The Swedish Phase(1630-1635)

By: Steven Higgins

Gustavus Adolphus

►Made Sweden into a Baltic Power

►Military genius►Devout Lutheran

Sweden’s Intervention

►Adolphus’s army defeated the imperial army in northern Germany, and they pushed into the heart of Germany.

► Ferdinand II was forced to recall Albrecht Von Wallenstein. Later assassinated

The Battle of Lützen

►1632►Swedish achieved

victory►Adolphus was killed

Swedish army became less effective.

Battle of Nördlingen

► Imperial forces defeated the Swedish. The Swedish were

driven out of Southern Germany.

Guaranteed that Southern Germany would remain Catholic

The Annulment of the Edict of Restitution

►The Religious Civil War ended in Germany.

► Ferdinand II made peace with the Protestants.

►War entered Franco-Swedish Phase

The End!!!