During this period , Romania was warned Warning by Western powers Influence about the state of democracy , inasmuch as the dismissal of the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies was made Creating in a shady manner , and prominent figures of PSD , including Vice-President Liviu Dragnea , were accused Judgment_communication of vote rigging in the referendum Change_of_leadership .

From the 13th century , the two main Balkan powers Byzantium and Bulgaria fell Motion_directional victims to a process of decentralization , as local feudal lords grew Expansion stronger and more independent from the emperors in Constantinople and Tarnovo .

Initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire , it gradually developed Coming_to_be into a more general conflict Hostile_encounter involving most of the European great powers .

No longer able to tolerate Control the encirclement of two major Habsburg powers on its borders , Catholic France entered Arriving the coalition on the side of the Protestants in order to counter Communication the Habsburgs .

The war also bankrupted most of the combatant powers .

it subsequently enjoyed a time of great prosperity and development , known as the dutch golden age , during which it became Becoming one of the world 's foremost economic , colonial , and naval powers .

The war altered Change the previous political order of European powers .

Historians conclude Statement the crisis `` signified Statement the end Process_end of Great Britain 's role as one of the world 's major powers '' .

The preeminent naval powers Influence , Great Britain and France , halted Process_end further construction Building of wooden-hulled ships , and others followed suit .

In 1771 , ten years after Panipat , he sent Sending a large Maratha army into northern India in an expedition that was meant to re-establish Recovering Maratha domination in that area and punish Rewards_and_punishments refractory powers that had either sided with the Afghans , such as the Rohillas , or had shaken Body_movement off Maratha domination after Panipat .

Ten nations sent Sending representatives , the main naval powers of Europe and the United States and Japan .

Castillo Armas quickly assumed Choosing dictatorial powers , banning Preventing_or_letting opposition parties , imprisoning Arrest and torturing Bodily_harm political opponents , and reversing Change the social reforms Reforming_a_system of the revolution .

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict Hostile_encounter between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union ( USSR ) , Poland and other Allies , which encompassed Surrounding Central Europe , Eastern Europe , Northeast Europe ( Baltics ) , and Southeast Europe ( Balkans ) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 .

The two principal belligerent powers were Germany and the Soviet Union , along with their respective allies .

These tests Testing by Pakistan and India resulted in Causation United Nations Security Council Resolution 1172 and economic sanctions Preventing_or_letting on both states by a number of major powers Influence , particularly the United States and Japan .

The Syrian and Russian governments blamed Judgment_communication the opposition for the attack Attack , the Russian government calling the attack Attack a false flag operation Attack by the opposition to draw Removing foreign powers into the civil war Hostile_encounter on the rebels ' side .

The event led to Causation security and political repercussions in Russia ; most notably , it contributed Causation to a series of federal government reforms Reforming_a_system consolidating power in the Kremlin and strengthening Cause_change_of_strength of the powers of the President of Russia .

The Sixth Siege of Gibraltar in 1411 was the only occasion on which control of Gibraltar was contested Hostile_encounter between two Islamic powers .

This campaign Military_operation was the first major test Testing for the new Sultan against western Europe and a high point of a diplomatic struggle Hostile_encounter between the major Mediterranean powers .

On 13March , seven days before Napoleon reached Arriving Paris , the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared Expressing_publicly him an outlaw , and on 25March Austria , Prussia , Russia and the United Kingdom , members of the Seventh Coalition , bound themselves to put Self_motion 150,000 men each into the field to end his rule .

The police were enabled Preventing_or_letting with far-reaching powers , and they arrested Arrest and detained Arrest , without bail , 497 individuals , all but 62 of whom were later released Releasing without charges .

The resulting Causation 1830 London Conference of major European powers Influence recognized Belgian independence .

The complete American withdrawal Escaping instantaneously eliminated Removing the principal and common adversary of all the communist powers .

The link Connect between politics and religion had been reinforced Cause_change_of_strength under the mandate Giving of the French colonial powers from 1920 to 1943 , and the parliamentary structure Building favored a leading position for its Christian population .

Furthermore , foreign powers , such as Israel and Syria , became Becoming involved Cause_to_be_included in the war Hostile_encounter and fought Hostile_encounter alongside different factions .

The Dutch Republic was recognized Know by Spain and the major European powers in 1609 at the start Process_start of the Twelve Years ' Truce Process_end .

On 22 November 2012 , millions of protesters began Process_start protesting Protest against Morsi , after his government announced Expressing_publicly a temporary constitutional declaration Expressing_publicly that in effect granted Preventing_or_letting the president unlimited powers .

In an effort to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale further awareness and action by the major European powers , 28 armed men and women led primarily by Papken Siuni and Armen Garo took over Conquering the bank which largely employed Employment European personnel from Great Britain and France .

Stirred largely due Causation to the inaction of the European powers in regard to Hamidian massacres , a series of mass-pogroms and massacres Killing of Armenians instigated by the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II in reaction to a series of rebellions by Armenians against the state Statement .

Nevertheless , aside from issuing Creating a note condemning Judgment_communication the pogroms in the city , the European powers did not act on their promises to enforce Action reforms Reforming_a_system in the country as future massacres Killing of Armenians continued to take place Process_start .

Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed Know that they were fighting Hostile_encounter for the principles of the American Revolution , in particular against taxation without local representation , while the federal government maintained that the taxes were the legal expression of Congressional taxation powers .

As Azerbaijan declared Expressing_publicly its independence from the Soviet Union and removed Removing the powers held Defending by the enclave 's government , the Armenian majority voted Choosing to secede Escaping from Azerbaijan and in the process proclaimed Statement the unrecognized Know Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh .

The offensive Attack was intended to stop Preventing_or_letting Allied use Using of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split Change the Allied lines , allowing Preventing_or_letting the Germans to encircle Besieging and destroy Destroying four Allied armies and force Causation the Western Allies to negotiate Communication a peace treaty in the Axis powers ' favor .

Later U-boat fleet action was extended Expansion to include Cause_to_be_included action against the trade routes of the Allied powers .

The Gaza–Israel conflict Hostile_encounter is a part of the localized Israeli–Palestinian conflict , but is also a scene of power struggle between regional powers including Egypt , Iran and Turkey together with Qatar , supporting Supporting different sides of the conflict in light of the regional standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia on one hand and between Qatar and Saudi Arabia on the other , as well as crisis in Egyptian-Turkish relations .

The Soviet ( as well as German ) invasion Attack of Poland was indirectly indicated Statement in the `` secret additional protocol '' of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed on Sign_agreement 23 August 1939 , which approximately divided Poland into `` spheres of influence '' of the two powers and questioned the future existence Presence of the Polish state .

The invasion Attack of Yugoslavia , also known as the April War or Operation 25 , was a German-led attack Attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began Process_start on 6 April 1941 during World War II .

Yugoslavia was then occupied Hold and partitioned by the Axis powers .

Aircraft flying Motion the Lisbon–Whitchurch route were left Departing unmolested at the beginning Process_start of the war , and both Allied and Axis powers respected Supporting the neutrality of Portugal .

By the 16th century , the Ottomans had become Becoming a serious threat to the European powers , with Ottoman ships sweeping away Venetian possessions in the Aegean and Ionian seas and Ottoman-supported Barbary pirates seizing Spanish possessions in the Maghreb .

Following the Siege of Vienna in 1683 the Habsburgs were able to assemble Come_together a large coalition of European powers known as the Holy League , allowing Preventing_or_letting them to effectively combat Hostile_encounter the Ottomans and to regain Getting control over Hungary .

although anglo-french skirmishes over their american colonies had begun Process_start with what became Becoming the french and indian war in 1754 , the large-scale conflict Hostile_encounter that drew Motion in most of the european powers was centered Placing on austria 's desire to recover silesia from prussia .

Seeing the opportunity to curtail Britain 's and Prussia 's ever-growing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale might , France and Austria put aside their ancient rivalry Competition to form a grand coalition of their own , bringing Bringing most of the other European powers to their side .

However , French efforts ended Process_end in failure when the Anglo-Prussian coalition prevailed Conquering , and Britain 's rise as among the world 's predominant powers destroyed Destroying France 's supremacy in Europe , thus altering Change the European balance of power .

It followed Motion centuries of conflict Hostile_encounter over this territory , first among Native American tribes , and then with the added shifting alliances among the tribes and the European powers of France and Great Britain , and their colonials .

over the next four years the french retained Preserving most of their territory despite intelligence and financial support provided by the central powers to the zaian confederation and continual raids and skirmishes reducing scarce french manpower .

Meanwhile , the Communist Bloc powers of East Germany and the Soviet Union , along with the anti-Soviet People 's Republic of China , established Creating friendly relations with the new government by recognising Know the country and sending Sending advisors .

on 26 december 1805 , austria and france signed Sign_agreement the treaty of pressburg , which took Creating austria out of both the war and the coalition , while it reinforced Cause_change_of_strength the earlier treaties between the two powers of campo formio and of UNK .

The buildup and offensive from China occurred Coming_to_be concurrently with the 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis ( 16–28 October 1962 ) that saw Self_motion the United States and the Soviet Union confronting Confronting_problem each other , and India did not receive Receiving assistance from either of these world powers until the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved Resolve_problem .

the new government established Creating by the bolsheviks signed Sign_agreement the treaty of brest-litovsk with the central powers , taking Conquering it out of the war and making large territorial concessions .