Europe first

Examples of Europe first in the following topics:

• American Arrival in Europe

  • The US engagement in Europe during WWII began prior to the US formal entry into the war by supplying war materials to Allied states and continued from 1942, when the US military directly engaged in operations in Western Europe and the Mediterranean.
  • The resulting strategy known as "Europe first" presumed that the  US and the UK would use the preponderance of their resources to subdue Nazi Germany in Europe first.
  • The first American troops landed at Salerno on September 9, 1943.
  • Key American military officials in Europe, Office of War Information, 1945
  • Senior American commanders of World War II in Europe.

• Living in Europe

  • However, several natural and social disasters slowed development in Europe during the fourteenth century.
  • Conflicts between the pope and the Holy Roman Empire continued in Central and Southern Europe that included a schism marked by two popes claiming the title and the first sparks of Protestant Reformation.
  • Western Europe became more isolated, cut off from China and other parts of Eastern Europe and Asia.
  • The style developed initially in France and then spread to Christian Spain, England, Flanders, Germany, Italy, and elsewhere to become the first medieval style found all over Europe, though with regional differences.
  • Define the important artistic developments in Europe between 1200 and 1400

• The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

  • It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S.
  • The non-participation of Eastern Europe was one of the first clear signs that the continent was now divided.
  • The Marshall Plan was one of the first elements of European integration, as it erased trade barriers and set up institutions to coordinate the economy on a continental level—that is, it stimulated the total political reconstruction of western Europe.
  • At the same time, the nonparticipation of the states of Eastern Bloc was one of the first clear signs that the continent was now divided.
  • The Marshall Plan was designed to help rebuild war-torn Europe, and thus make Europe less susceptible to Communist threats.

• Art in Western Europe

  • Western Europe was particularly bountiful for archaeological discoveries, such as the Venus figurines, from the Paleolithic.
  • The Paleolithic or Old Stone Age existed from approximately 30,000 BC until 10,000 BC and produced some of the first accomplishments in human creativity.
  • Western Europe, especially France, Austria, and Germany are the locations of some of the first discoveries of such figures.
  • Numerous engravings in bone and ivory from the Upper Paleolithic have been discovered in western Europe.
  • Identify and name locations and types of archaeological discoveries in Western Europe dating from the Paleolithic.Age

• The Rise of Charlemagne

  • Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was the king of the Franks from 768 and the king of Italy from 774, and from 800 was the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.
  • Charlemagne was determined to improve education and religion and bring Europe out of turmoil.
  • The first step that Charlemagne took in building his empire was to conquer new territories.
  • The campaign was cut short by his first expedition to Italy.
  • Through these conquests Charlemagne united Europe and spread Christianity.

• The Romanesque Period

  • Romanesque architecture was the first distinctive style to spread across Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
  • Instead, the greatest building of the Dark Ages in Europe was the artistic child of the 6th century octagonal Byzantine Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.
  • The domed churches of Constantinople and Eastern Europe were to greatly affect the architecture of certain towns, particularly through trade and through the Crusades.
  • Much of Europe was affected by feudalism, in which peasants held tenure from local rulers over the land they farmed in exchange for military service.
  • The result of this was that they could be called upon, not only for local spats, but to follow their lord to travel across Europe to the Crusades.

• Faith in the Face of Suffering

  • In Europe, the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were a time marked by social and economic turmoil, as well as plague and sickness.
  • The first years of the 14th century were marked by a number of famines, culminating in the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317.
  • The death toll was about 35 million people in total in Europe - about one-third of the population.
  • Urban workers also felt that they had a right to greater earnings, and popular uprisings broke out across Europe.
  • The church remained one of the strongest institutions in Europe, and in the Holy Roman Empire.

• Single Sheets

  • Paper manufacturing became popular in Europe around 1400, and with it the medium of printmaking.
  • By the time paper was first being manufactured in Burgundy and Germany at the end of the 14th century, woodblock-printed cards and religious images were beginning to be seen.
  • Martin Schonhauer (c. 1450-1491), from Southern Germany, is credited as the first artist to create an engraving; he was also a well-known painter .
  • Martin Schonhauer is credited as the first artist to create an engraving, and is also a well-known painter.
  • Identify the main printmaking techniques and their most important exponents in Northern Europe in the late medieval period

• Territorial Changes in Europe

• Oil Painting

  • Oil painting did not gain popularity in Europe until the fifteenth century.
  • Warfare between these states was common, and the first part of the Renaissance saw almost constant fighting as the city-states vied for preeminence.
  • Although oil paint was first used for the Buddhist Paintings created by Indian and Chinese painters in western Afghanistan sometime between the fifth and ninth centuries, it did not gain popularity until the fifteenth century in Europe.
  • Oil painting techniques likely migrated from Afghanistan and China to Europe during the Middle Ages.
  • One thing that appears to be certain is that Giorgione painted a female nude - the very first female nude that stands (or rather, lies) as a subject to be portrayed and admired for beauty alone.