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AP European History
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1. This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil that year
Witte's reforms
Potato Famine
Anton Denikin
Henry Bessemer
2. Freud said that there was conscious - which you could control - and the subconscious. He said that the Id was living in the subconscious was just had primordial desires that wanted stuff like food and sex. Then there was the Superego that did not wan
Modern liberalism
Id - Ego - Superego
Cavour's program
Mussolini's Rise - role of Black Shirts
3. A Serbian nationalist in the Black hand who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Revolutions of 1848
Gravrilo Princip
James Hargreaves
Jean Jaures
4. This philosopher showed the overall attitude of the Enlightenment by saying 'have the courage to use your own understanding'
Adolphe Thiers
Kant
Egyptian Nationalist Party
Relationship between Alexandra & Rasputin / Rasputin's assassination
5. This was the physicist who said nothing can be known beyond all doubt
Catherine the Great
Henry IV of France
Boyle
Great White Walls
6. The idea that we do know no anything for certain and all we know is possibilities - probabilities - and tendencies. Put forth by German physicist Heisenberg.
Paul von Hindenburg
Uncertainty Principle
Masaccio
The Prince
7. Was a Hungarian Communist politician who ruled Hungary as leader of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
Kronstadt Rebels
Hitler's Popularity - how popular - why
Béla Kun
8. The philosophical ideology that simply rejected the concerns of modern philosophy - like god and morality. Mainly started with Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein.
Petrarch
Logical Empiricism
Collectivization
Post-Impressionism
9. This man's work was extremely influential for the Romantic Movement
Henry Bessemer
Hus
Rousseau
Ghibeleines
10. Pioneered by the Curies - Plank and Einstein - a new view of physics that shattered the perfect world of Newtonian physics and made the world seem much more random and not as much certainty.
First - Second - Third Balkan War
The New Physics
Robert Nievelle
Scramble for Africa
11. One of the members of the banker family of Florence that ruled behind the scenes of the government
Cosmo deMedici
Petrarch
Paul Gaugin
Leon Gambetta
12. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy
Brunelleschi
Carbonari
The Prince
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
13. A war between Russia and Japan for Port Arthur - and for more influence in CHina
Irish Home Rule
Second International
Søren Kierkegaard
Russo-Japanese War
14. These were the theories of the spread of disease. The miasma theory said that disease was spread by a bad odor. The new germ theory developed by Louis Pasteur said that diseases were spread by bacteria called germs
Austro-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
Miasma Theory / Germ Theory
Appeasement
Stalinization of culture
15. Young rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform
Reparations
Problems of trench life
Matthew Perry
Young Turks
16. This was the 'revolution' that replaced James II with William and Mary that also recognized the supremacy of the Parliament with minimum bloodshed
James II
Glorious Revolution
Anabaptists
Edict of Nantes
17. The political mastermind behind all of Sardinia's unification plans - he succeeded in creating a Northern Italian nation state
Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)
Camillo di Cavour
Lebensraum
Kellogg-Briand Pact
18. People wanted Italian unity because it would unify Italy - and they wanted a different government. People did not want unification because it went against the church - there were very different areas in the north and the south - and because they want
Rabelais
Gravrilo Princip
Reasons for and against Italian unity
Uncertainty Principle
19. A treatise that sought to train - discipline - and fashion the young man into the courtly ideal - the gentleman
Three Estates
Pius IX
The Courtier
Structure of German government
20. The three party system that makes sure that both the conservative and the labor party don't get too radical.
Suez Canal
Peninsular War
Labor-Liberal-Conservative Cooperation in Britain
Vincent Van Gogh
21. This was the start of the building of foreign empires for trade and military advantages over other states
Methodism
Modern imperialism
Benito Mussolini
Louis Blanc
22. Differences between French and British were over the treatment of the Germans - specifically on the payment of reparations
Scramble for Africa
British-French Tensions
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
James Hargreaves
23. This dealt with skepticism - the government - and the role of reason in everyday life
Nationalism
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Serbian nationalist movement
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
24. Hitler's book in which he outlined his ideas on race - living space - and the Fuhrer
Mein Kampf
Northwest Passage
Glorious Revolution
Rudolf Hess
25. This was the czar of Russia that Westernized Russia and built up a massive Russian army. He also was interested in building grand cities like those in Western Europe
Peter the Great
Warren Hastings
Commercial revolution
Cosmo deMedici
26. A short political treatise about political power how the ruler should gain - maintain - and increase it. Machiavelli explores the problems of human nature and concludes that human beings are selfish and out to advance their own interests
Committee of Public Safety
The Prince
Why the Western Front became stalemated
'Spanish Armada'
27. The French alliance between the smaller countries of Poland - Hungary - and Czechoslovakia.
The Little Entente
Alexander I
Emile
Joseph Lister
28. A Weimar (German) architectural school created by Walter Gropius which combined the fine arts and functionalism
Francis I
Bauhaus
Test Act of 1673
Banking Families
29. An important invasion that lead to the removal of Mussolini from government - only to have him put back later
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Sicily
Battle of Austerlitz
Qing Dynasty
30. This man was a Hungarian nationalist leader who demanded independence and a constitution
Lajos Kossuth
Leopold II
Masaccio
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
31. This was when the French left - and the British moved in and invaded and captured Egypt
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Sergei Kirov
Vesalius
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
32. This was planned by Georges Haussmann - who was assigned by Napoleon III - to provide employment - improved living conditions - and to show the glory of the French empire
The 'Big Four'
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Paris Reconstruction
Joseph Goebbels
33. The final straw for the Japanese - resulting in millions of civilian and military death. Little Boy and Fat Man were used here. These flew on the plane 'The Enola Gay'
Louis XVIII
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
Passchendaele
A-bombs - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
34. A revisionist social who advocated the gradual gain of socialism and looked towards Darwin's doctrines as a measure for a change in socialism's tactics
Michelangelo
Edward Bernstein
Stream-of-Consciousness
Bauhaus
35. This was the document published by Henry IV that granted liberty of conscience and liberty of public worship to the Huguenots
Edict of Nantes
Lawrence of Arabia
Dialectics
Reasons for and against Italian unity
36. This was an artist who led the way for Renaissance masters from his David sculpture and his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo
Ems Telegram
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
37. This is the oath that the representatives of the third estate took when they swore that they would never disband until they had proper representation
Paul Valéry
Neville Chamberlain
Tennis Court Oath
Council of Trent
38. French revisionist socialist who repudiated revisionist doctrines to achieve a unified socialist state
Pragmatic Sanction
Sino-Japanese War
World Markets / European foreign investment
Jean Jaures
39. This was the group of people in the National Assembly that met to discuss the political questions of the day
Anabaptists
Second International
Jacobins
'The White Man's Burden'
40. This was the man who first detailed the accounted for the circulation of blood flow
Erich Ludendorff
Georges Clemenceau
Qing Dynasty
Harvey
41. Tzu Hsi Chinese leader who used conservative forces to maintain her power
Simony
Dowager Empress
Klemens von Metternich
The Middle Way
42. Objectives were to increase industrial output by 250% and agriculture output by 150% and have 1/5 of Russian peasants on collective farms. The methods were forced farming and scare tactics like gulags. The success was that of industry - which produce
Enclosure movement
Five Year plans - objectives - methods - success
Radical Dictatorships
Claude Monet
43. This was the act passed by Charles VI that stated that Hapsburg possessions were never to be divided - in order to allow his daughter to be ruler
Mary I
Hitler's Popularity - how popular - why
Triple Entente & Triple Alliance
Pragmatic Sanction
44. Man who created the printing press and changed the production and reading of books
'Liberty - Equality - Fraternity'
Johann Gutenberg
William Gladstone
Ems Telegram
45. The forceful union of Austria into Germany
Logical Empiricism
Austrian Anschluss
English Civil War
Sigmund Freud
46. Lenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry
Thirty Years' War
Kulturkampf
New Economic Policy
Franz von Papen
47. This was the man who discovered Americas while originally looking for a faster and all-sea route to the East but instead landed in the West Indies.
Cabral
Columbus
Ulrich Zwingli
French educational reforms
48. This was a short ottoman parliament designed to model the western model of an empire
Georges Haussmann
Index of Prohibited Literature
Tanzimat
Descartes
49. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
Theory of Evolution
Troppau Conference
Khedive
50. Deputy to Hitler in the Nazi party person who dictated Mein Kampf
Rudolf Hess
Copernicus
Russian (March) Revolution/ Provisional Government
Mein Kampf