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AP European History
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1. This was the most famous and one of the first concrete reformer who began to reject some of the more obscure and selfish laws of the Catholic Church
Wycliffe
da Gama
Giuseppe Mazzini
Martin Luther
2. 1/3 of European migrants came from British Isles; less that ½ went to the US; most often a small peasant landowner/village craftsman; left because they were threatened by industrialization; many returned to their homelands
Peter the Great
William Wordsworth
Northwest Passage
Migration: Who went where - and why? (demographics)
3. 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.
The New Physics
Revolutions of 1830
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
Donatello
4. This was the Holy Roman Emperor that called for the Diet of Worms. He was a supporter of Catholicism and tried to crush the Reformation by use of the Counter-Reformation
Diet of Worms
Charles V
Sergei Kirov
Walther Rathenau
5. The most important battle in the European part of the war - allies stormed beaches and made it through to the mainland - landing in France and moving towards Germany
Test Act of 1673
Paris Commune
Louis XVIII
D-Day
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.
Rudyard Kipling
Oedipal Complex
Leon Trotsky
Abstract-Expressionism
7. This was the man who first theorized that the celestial bodies all revolved around a fixed sun
Grigori Rasputin
National self-determination
Copernicus
Frederick the Great
8. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance
Omdurman
Charles V
Munich Conference
Ninety-five Theses
9. Unsuccessful uprising of sailors - soldiers - and civilians against Russian government (against Bolsheviks)
Kronstadt Rebels
Francis I
Petrarch
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
10. German chancellor who hoped for WWI to happen - but without Britain
Hitler's goals
Raymond Poincaré
'The White Man's Burden'
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
11. People justified imperialism by the concept of 'white man's burden -' which stated that European should govern other because it was right and better for the people
Georges Clemenceau
Justifications for Imperialism
Elie Halévy
War of Austrian Succession
12. Was a pact that said that just said was bad - but did not outline any method for preventing war.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Peace of Westphalia
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Rabelais
13. This was the revolt that occurred in Germany where the peasants rebelled alongside the new Protestant thought. They were viciously quashed and the public appeal to the Reformation went substantially down
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14. French military leader who assumed control of France and lead it out of the war successfully
'Separation of powers'
Paris Commune
Why war preparations were 'unstoppable'
Henri Pétain
15. The Japanese had a war with China and ended up gaining Korea - which they opened to trade; Japan became an imperialist power
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16. He 'used the west to catch up to the west' in Russia - by having foreigners build factories and making new transport lines.
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17. This was the Catholic king of England after Charles II that granted everyone religious freedom and even appointed Roman Catholics to positions in the army and government
Vespucci
Reasons for and against German unity
James II
Goldhagen Thesis
18. This German - along with his partner Ludendorff - essentially ran Germany during the end of the war
Pius IX
Victor Emmanuel
Paul von Hindenburg
Polish Corridor
19. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Bismarck's plans and maneuvers
Concordat of 1801
20. This war was began as a follow-up of the War of Austrian Succession when Prussia invaded Austria
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21. This was the first explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope and sail into the Indian Ocean trade
Jean Paul Sartre
Pablo Picasso
Polish Corridor
da Gama
22. The idea that Britain could pacify Germany and make sure there was no war at any cost.
Lajos Kossuth
Savonarola
Appeasement
Collectivization
23. This was the queen of Austria as a result of the Pragmatic Sanction. She limited the papacy's political influence in Austria - strengthened her central bureaucracy and cautiously reduced the power that nobles had over their serfs
Working class leisure
Werner Heisenberg
Totalitarianism
Maria Theresa
24. This scientist spread the word about the experimental method and formalized the empirical method and combined his thinking with Descartes to form the scientific method
Franz Joseph
Battle of Austerlitz
Habeas Corpus Act
Bacon
25. Suffrage was extended to more middle class men in Britain so that they conservatives would get a stronger base
Extension of suffrage in Britain
Wealth of Nations
Wycliffe
Corn Laws
26. A desire for success abroad lead to this. It was a short war against Denmark to gain these providences
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Impressionism
Savonarola
Irish Home Rule
27. He wanted to declare the superiority of Aryan race - create more living space for them - and make himself eternal supreme dictator for life
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28. This was one o the original men to challenge the church. His writings became 'scriptures' for other reformers to follow.
Jacobins
Wycliffe
'Socialism in one country'
Austrian 'anti-nationalism'
29. 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)
Battle of Verdun
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
War of the Three Henrys
Columbus
30. This was the massacre that occurred during the wedding of a Catholic and Huguenot that would resolve the conflict between the two conflicting parties
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31. Khedive of Egypt - he was a westernizing autocrat and grandson of the first leader
Mein Kampf
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ismail Ali
Alexander III
32. Combined German and Italian forces were beaten near Alexandria - which lead to the Allied taking of Morocco and Algeria
El Alamein
Josef Pilsudaski
Working class leisure
Copernicus
33. This battle was a German victory against the Russian - the Russians were crushed
Fascism
Diet of Worms
Battle of Tannenberg
Ulrich Zwingli
34. This was the harsh and violent conversion of Spain back into Catholicism. They used several versions of torture and fear tactics to convert people back to Catholicism
Spanish Inquisition
Whigs and Tories
Cosmo deMedici
The Protectorate
35. This was the way that the English landowners would now organize their land so that the farmers would become more productive in their work
Galileo
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
Cosmo deMedici
Enclosure movement
36. A successful politician in France - he was a moderate republican who helped stabilize government
Leon Gambetta
Partition of Poland
Logical Empiricism
Frederick William IV
37. First war in Europe - then war in Asia
Dialectics
Boyle
Course of WWII
Nicholas II
38. Was an international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight 'by all available means - including armed force - for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an internati
Marie Curie
19th century class structure
Robert Owen
Comintern
39. They had a strong top government and they had a Reichstag - or the lower house of parliament
Cottage industry
'Spanish Armada'
Structure of German government
China's Hundred Days of Reform
40. This dealt with skepticism - the government - and the role of reason in everyday life
Totalitarianism
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Rousseau
Karl Lueger
41. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun - leading it during its successful counter-strokes against the Germans - but was accused of wasting French lives during some of his attacks. He became Commander-in-Chief
Robert Nievelle
Bacon
Enabling Act
Charles Talleyrand
42. The old Tsarist secret police
Austrian Anschluss
Nazi racial theories
Cheka
The Prince
43. This war showed that Russia was still not strong - and it caused revolution back at home.
Russo-Japanese War - impact in Russia
Sun Yatsen
Paul Valéry
Brunelleschi
44. The fiery mayor of Vienna who preached anti-Semitism and appealed to lower middle class
June Days
Josef Pilsudaski
Emile Zola
Karl Lueger
45. This was the royal dynasty of electors in Prussia
Frederick William IV
Hohenzollerns
Frederick the Great
Existentialism
46. The French Revolution of 1830 occurred because Louis XVIII only granted a small percentage of people the right to vote and Charles X attack of Algeria and as a result - he censored the press and limited the voting rights of the wealthy
Zemstvo
Karl Lueger
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -- the Black Hand
Revolutions of 1830
47. This event showed that Germany was war hungry and turned the British onto the side of the French
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Moroccan Crisis & Algeciras Conference 1906
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Reign of Terror
48. American president at the time of WWI who came up with 14 points
Vincenzo Gioberti
Woodrow Wilson
The Middle Way
'Crown from the gutter'
49. Viennese founder of 12 tone music and turned back on conventional tones
Karlsbad Decrees
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Arnold Schönberg
Psycho-social impact of WWI
50. This man was a Romantic painter
Klemens von Metternich
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
John Constable (The Haywain)