By:Hannah Baptiste 5/21/14 6. Westphalia was the first modern conference. (a) The Thirty Year War had began for mainly two reasons for political and religious causes.
This conference was needed because the Northern Europe was totally exhausted and the countries that were involved in the Thirty Year War included Spain, Poland, Netherlands,
Sweden, Denmark,Switzerland and Germany and when the war ended the most of the European cities was in ruins as a cause of the destruction of the war and needed peace for an attempt to settle their international problems and rebuild their infrastructure. However in 1648 Europe created Peace of Westphalia which created a status of balance that decided which state will