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AP European History

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1. There were the early French socialists who believed in economic planning and argued that the government should rationally organize the economy and not depend on destructive competition to do the job. There was also dialectic socialism in which the fo






2. This was the group that carried out the Reign of Terror






3. This is the passage that many European explorers attempted but never succeeded to navigate to reach other nations more quickly






4. This was the king and queen of Spain who took over the Catholic Spain and started the Spanish Inquisition






5. A plan in British parliament that increased spending on social services

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6. A Freudian physiological idea that if you did not get over loving your parent of the opposite sex - you would have this complex where you hated your other parent and have issues with parental relations.






7. The acceptance of Stalin though propaganda






8. An armed uprising in Munich of maybe 50 people at most - crushed - Hitler's idea






9. This was the theory developed by Montesquieu that political power should not be divided and share by a variety of classes and legal estates holding unequal rights and privileges

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10. He wanted to unify Germany - but played it safe - with many alliances and pacts - and ends up being amazing

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11. This bill gave representation to most people in England






12. 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.






13. The British had a war with the Chinese to make sure they could sell their opium to china






14. A French socialist who thought there socialism would come from a general strike of all workers that would cripple the capitalist system. Thought that socialism was an improbable religion rather than accepted truth. Thought that the new socialist gove






15. This man both helped to lead the first national union in England and advocated the use of children in factories






16. 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.'






17. A failed British offensive in Ottoman empire






18. This was the man who began studying fermentation to develop a way to avoid spoilage through pasteurization by heating the beverage






19. This was the man who first detailed the accounted for the circulation of blood flow






20. Gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years






21. 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






22. An important battle in the Asian part of the war - the Americans sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers






23. Social Impact was impact on social class structures and breakdown of aristocracy and other inter class structures. After the war more people did not have servants. The Psycho impact was that people viewed humanity as both savage and pointless - becau






24. Leader of the French socialist party Popular Front - made first and real attempt to deal with the economic and social problems






25. A Spanish artist - founder of Cubism - which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes






26. The revolution of the unplanned overthrowing of the Tsarist government - and the government that followed the revolution.






27. Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church






28. 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.






29. A French philosophy professor who said that personal experiences and intuition were more important than rational thought and thinking






30. This was the last of the wars that occurred over the religious differences in France - between the Catholics (Henry III of France and Henry of Guise) and Protestants (Henry IV)






31. This was the royal dynasty of electors in Prussia






32. Inhumane and cruel leader of the SS in Germany - appointed by Hitler






33. This was the work that suggested that socialists should combine with other progressive forces to win gradual evolutionary gains for workers through legislation - unions - and further economic development






34. German Foreign Minister who assumed leadership of government and got the French to move out of the Ruhr






35. Bismarck placed high tariffs on imported goods - and tried to stop socialism with government measures that banned the socialist party






36. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the pope






37. When France occupied the Ruhr coal fields to demand that the German pay their reparations






38. Chief minister of the Nazi propaganda - and organizer of Kristallnacht






39. Khedive of Egypt - he was a westernizing autocrat and grandson of the first leader






40. This was the term given to those in the Renaissance who were able to excel in more than one subject matter

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41. A movement to create a nation state of Slavic people






42. A man who helped to shed some light on the church's problems with hurting the people that follow the religion. He was seen as a radical and was not allowed to study John Wycliffe's publications yet was executed after he was tried for heresy






43. The philosophical ideology that simply rejected the concerns of modern philosophy - like god and morality. Mainly started with Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein.






44. There was an large inequality of income and standard of living between Europe and the non-industrialized world because industrialization itself opened the gap






45. This physicist developed the law of universal gravitation and further caused the decline of the old system of science






46. These were the types of buildings designed by Charles Fourier for a utopian society






47. A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out






48. These were the reasons of bad leadership - and lack of organized or effective army






49. The idea that Britain could pacify Germany and make sure there was no war at any cost.






50. The strip of Poland that the Germans wanted to take - specifically Danzig