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AP European History
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1. This was the first explorer who rounded the southern tip of the Cape of Good Hope but was never able to go all the way around
Ukrainian Famine
Erasmus
Diaz
Physiocrats
2. This was the treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession
Peace of Utrecht
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Arnold Schönberg
Labor aristocracy
3. Austrian born Dictator of Germany - implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.
Line of Demarcation
June Days
Brunelleschi
Adolf Hitler
4. This was the work that started the tabula rasa theory where the human mind is blank until it is filled with experiences that allow a person to think differently
Otto von Bismarck
Guelph
Stalingrad
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
5. 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
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
Paris Reconstruction
Robert Owen
Puritan
6. There was an large inequality of income and standard of living between Europe and the non-industrialized world because industrialization itself opened the gap
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
June Days
Income inequality / Standard of Living
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
7. A member of British Parliament who mocked Rudyard Kipling's poem
Reparations
Vincenzo Gioberti
Henry Labouchière
Leopold II
8. This man believed that the moral worth of an action is determined by its contribution to happiness as summed among all persons
Emile
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
'White' forces
Franz Joseph
9. This man promoted the idea of sterilizing medical equipment before operating
Conservative Authoritarianism
Soviet quality of life
Alfred von Schlieffen
Joseph Lister
10. This was the group of people called by Louis XVI that would keep the king in check like the English Parliament
Stadholder
Estates-General
Crimean War - impact in Britain & Russia
Luddites
11. In this - Mussolini recognized the Vatican as an independent state - and gave it heavy financial support
Bauhaus
Stalinization of culture
Franz Liszt
Lateran Agreement
12. This was a man who helped Ignatius of Loyola to start the Jesuits. He also was famous for his number of missionaries he went on to promote Christianity
Walther Rathenau
Labor-Liberal-Conservative Cooperation in Britain
Francis Xavier
Seditious Meetings Act
13. The Scandinavian system of in the middle of socialism and capitalism - an ideology that you can have some of your own things and keep some of your money - and have higher tax rates.
Mein Kampf
Edwin Chadwick
The Middle Way
Battle of Tannenberg
14. Given by the Provisional Government - this stripped the army officers of power - and placed it in hand of elected committees. This collapsed army discipline
Munich Conference
Three Estates
One man - one plan - one mustache
Army Order Number 1
15. German Foreign Minister who assumed leadership of government and got the French to move out of the Ruhr
Gustav Stresemann
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Battle of Waterloo
Lateran Agreement
16. This man urged people to agitate for universal voting rights and to take control of the state peacefully
Uncertainty Principle
Louis Blanc
Northwest Passage
Reform Bill of 1832
17. This was Austria's foreign minister who wanted a balance of power in an international equilibrium of political and military forces that would discourage aggression
The Prince
Council of Trent
Franz Joseph
Klemens von Metternich
18. A German physicist that speculated that there was no real certainty in where an electron was - and only tendencies. This broke down Newton's dependable laws to only probabilities.
House of Orange
Vincent Van Gogh
Werner Heisenberg
Joseph Goebbels
19. An obscure German high school teacher who wrote Decline of the West - said the west was about to be conquered by Asians.
Rudolf Hess
Course of WWII
Oswald Spengler
Alexandra
20. This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical - the planets do not orbit at a constant speed - and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun
Cervantes
Kepler
Francis I
Alliances 1873-1914 & German isolation
21. This was the union of skilled workers in the working classes that had a set behavioral code. They were usually run by construction bosses and factory foremen
Labor aristocracy
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
Søren Kierkegaard
D-Day
22. This was the document that stated that if a ruler steps over its proper function to protect the natural rights of life - liberty - and property - than that ruler was a tyrant and must be overthrown
Two Treatises on Government (John Locke)
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
Brumaire Coup and The Consulate
Hohenzollerns
23. Was an Austrian philosopher and a logical empiricist who argued in Essay on Logical Philosophy that great philosophical questions like god freedom and morality were 'quite literally senseless.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Why the Western Front became stalemated
Douglas Haig
24. These decrees required the thirty-eight German member states to root out subversive ideas in the universities and newspapers an established a permanent committee with spies and informers to investigate and punish any liberal or radical organizations
Lateran Agreement
Karlsbad Decrees
Oswald Spengler
Alexander Kerensky
25. This was what the early German Romantics called themselves
Sturm und Drang
War of Spanish Succession
Austro-Sardinian War
Da Vinci
26. This massive victory by the French caused Russia and the Austrians to suspend their support against France
June Days
'Spanish Armada'
Alexandra
Battle of Austerlitz
27. This man's work was extremely influential for the Romantic Movement
Humanism
British-French Tensions
Rousseau
El Alamein
28. A king and leader of Prussia who was unable to unify Germany 'from above -' he was replaced by William I
Modernization
Fourteen Points
Meiji Restoration of 1867
Frederick William IV
29. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Ukrainian Famine
Lusitania and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Magellan
James Joyce
30. This American naval officer was the driving factor in Japan's opening by using gunboat diplomacy
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Matthew Perry
Frederick the Great
Hermann Göring
31. A determined reactionary Tsar who nevertheless sped forward with economic modernization
Werner Heisenberg
Frederick Elector of Saxony
Franz von Papen
Alexander III
32. This was the Pope that called the Council of Trent
Functionalism
Charists
Cervantes
Pope Paul III
33. Composer of opera Wozzeck - atonal music with half spoken - half sung dialogue - violence and expression
Alban Berg
Napoleonic Code
Oliver Cromwell
Douglas Haig
34. A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionism
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Course of WWII
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
35. Traditional form of antidemocratic government
Hohenzollerns
Estates-General
Syllabus of Errors
Conservative Authoritarianism
36. A concept used to describe political systems whereby a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. These regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda dis
Camillo di Cavour
Totalitarianism
Bauhaus
Alliances 1873-1914 & German isolation
37. This man wrote Heart of Darkness - where he criticized the Europeans in their civilizing
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
Women in totalitarian states
Joseph Conrad
Charles Talleyrand
38. A form of Protestantism in which the believers were pacifists and would shake at the power of the word of the Lord
Quakers
Guelph
Rump Parliament
'Effective Occupation'
39. WWI progressed so the Germans were winning at first - and then the Americans came and kicked butt. It also was so pointless and full of death
John Maynard Keynes
Progress of the War
Hitler's goals
Franz von Papen
40. This ship was sunk with Americans on it - and this action by the Germans was what ultimately caused the Americans to enter the war
Lusitania and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Doge
D-Day
Battle of the Somme
41. Leader of the French socialist party Popular Front - made first and real attempt to deal with the economic and social problems
Leon Blum
Ulrich Zwingli
Zemstvo
Progress of the War
42. This was the first publication of different essays about the culture and society of France which was put on the Index of Forbidden Books because it dealt with controversial issues
Responses to Imperialism: Traditionalist v. Modernist
Franz Joseph
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Encyclopedia
43. This was the style of capitalism in which the government had no interference with the economy
British-French Tensions
Laissez-faire capitalism
Thomas Hobbes
El Alamein
44. These were the angry old cottage industry workers who lost their jobs and costumers to machines and as a result - they began to secretly destroy the machines
Luddites
Victor Emmanuel
Hermann Göring
Zemstvo
45. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and foremost general for the White Russians in the Russian civil war.
Matthew Perry
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Russian Modernization
Anton Denikin
46. The trench was dirty - wet - smelly - and full of death - and you waited to die at any moment
Francisco Franco
Problems of trench life
Course of WWII
Second International
47. Served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He founded and led the Estado Novo ('New State') - the authoritarian - right-wing government that presided over and controlled Portugal from 1932 to 1974.
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Antonio de Oliveira Salzar
Da Vinci
Salons
48. This war was over the inheritance of the throne by Maria Theresa - for the Salic law prevented a woman from solely ruling the state
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Werner Heisenberg
Franz Joseph
War of Austrian Succession
49. The reason behind the war was because a war would bring the Southern German states into the Prussian state - and the French wanted to teach Germany a lesson. It ended up that the Germans kicked butt - and the French were humiliated - and the German p
Theodor Herzl
Raymond Poincaré
Reasons for Russian weakness
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
50. This movement said that all men and women who sought salvation might be saved - giving the people a message of hope
Methodism
Egyptian Nationalist Party
Irish Home Rule
Hitler's Foreign Policy
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