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AP European History
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1. This was an English feminist who supported the women's revolution in France
Douglas Haig
Alexander II
Zionism
Mary Wollstonecraft
2. 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
Isolation & 'Opening' of China and Japan
Paris Reconstruction
Fascism
Ferdinand and Isabella
3. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the pope
July Diplomacy - the Blank Check
Guelph
Walther Rathenau
Dante
4. This man both helped to lead the first national union in England and advocated the use of children in factories
Karlsbad Decrees
Robert Owen
Rump Parliament
Romanticism
5. A Serbian nationalist in the Black hand who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Victor Hugo
Gravrilo Princip
Ismail Ali
Vincent Van Gogh
6. He was a major French Renaissance writer - doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy and satire
Guelph
Rabelais
Realism
War of the Three Henrys
7. Leaders who violently rejected parliamentary restraint and liberal values - as well as exercised unprecedented control over masses and sought to mobilize them for war.
Radical Dictatorships
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Totalitarianism
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
8. This man developed the first cohesive theory of evolution after his studies of biology
Partition of Poland
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Joseph Goebbels
Sergei Witte
9. The two rival communists groups. One weree true revolutionary Marxists - and the other were revisionist socialists.
Whigs and Tories
Conservative Authoritarianism
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Diaz
10. This was the name given to the person appointed by the States General to carry out ceremonial functions in a province in the Netherlands
Stadholder
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
June Days
Mary I
11. This was a Romantic writer who wrote prose and poetry
Index of Prohibited Literature
Victor Hugo
Erich Ludendorff
Cavour's program
12. The common crime of paying for holy offices for the position of power
Income inequality / Standard of Living
Army Order Number 1
Simony
Louis Blanc
13. French revisionist socialist who repudiated revisionist doctrines to achieve a unified socialist state
Philip II of Spain
The Restoration
Seditious Meetings Act
Jean Jaures
14. 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.
Why the Western Front became stalemated
Werner Heisenberg
First - Second - Third Balkan War
Henry IV of France
15. This was the name given to the Spanish explorers who would conquer the land they discovered and utilize the resources they found there for Spain
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16. An important invasion that lead to the removal of Mussolini from government - only to have him put back later
Walter Gropius
Franz Joseph
Ismail Ali
Sicily
17. 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
Austrian 'anti-nationalism'
Totalitarianism
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Conservative Authoritarianism
18. Belgian king who ruthlessly exploited the natives on his African land for personal gain.
Boers / Afrikaners
Leopold II
Habeas Corpus Act
Reform Bill of 1832
19. This man was a poet - playwright and novelist and wrote one of the best known novels ever (Don Quixote)
Post-Impressionism
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Henry VIII
Cervantes
20. 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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21. This was the philosopher that believed that a strong central government was needed to avoid rebellion and civil war
Labor aristocracy
Polish Corridor
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Thomas Hobbes
22. The Duke of Florence and the old ruler of the city-states of Italy
Francesco Sforza
Hitler's Foreign Policy
Pius IX
Second International
23. 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
Henry VIII
Progress of the War
Estates-General
Dawes Plan
24. Russia's lower house of politics
Paris Reconstruction
Dialectics
Duma
Treaty of Versailles terms
25. 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
Georges Sorel
Hermann Göring
Ignatius of Loyola
Descartes
26. 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
Henri-Philippe Pétain
Migration: Who went where - and why? (demographics)
Enabling Act
Moroccan Crisis & Algeciras Conference 1906
27. The three countries of Italy - Germany - and Japan allied together
Kristallnacht
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Nicholas II
The Little Entente
28. Was the French political alliance that allied the Communists - the Socialists - and the Radicals together.
Oswald Spengler
Jean Jaures
October Manifesto
Popular Front
29. A group of socialist national parties that met and discussed Marx - and planned action
Petrograd Soviet
Henrí Matisse
Second International
Two Treatises on Government (John Locke)
30. This was the man who influenced the power of King Louis XIII the most and tried to make France an absolute monarchy
Cardinal Richelieu
Christian Revival
Victor Emmanuel
Soviet quality of life
31. This man said that population would always grow faster than the food supply and the only hope of warding o war - famine - and disease was that young men and women had to limit the growth of population by marrying late
Malthus (On Population)
Paul von Hindenburg
Werner Heisenberg
Laissez-faire capitalism
32. This was the revolution as a result of whether the sovereignty would remain with the king or with the Parliament. Eventually - the kingship was abolished
Northern Humanism
Meeting at Marburg
English Civil War
Thirty Years' War
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'
The Little Entente
A-bombs - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
Edward Bernstein
Protestantism
34. Composer - wrote Rite of Spring - expressionist ballet - shocked crowds because of music and scenes
Dawes Plan
Søren Kierkegaard
Igor Stravinsky
'Universal Man'
35. A successful politician in France - he was a moderate republican who helped stabilize government
Masaccio
Leon Gambetta
Income inequality / Standard of Living
Charles Talleyrand
36. This explorer first saw the mainland of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal while sailing to set up trading posts in India
Raymond Poincaré
Surplus Value
Cabral
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
37. One of the costliest battles in WWI - was mainly useless and just people died
Cavour's program
Battle of Verdun
Natural laws
Protestantism
38. A desire for success abroad lead to this. It was a short war against Denmark to gain these providences
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Crimean War - impact in Britain & Russia
Edwin Chadwick
James Hargreaves
39. This man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government
Josef Pilsudaski
Syllabus of Errors
Meeting at Marburg
Sun Yatsen
40. Last tsar of Russia - he went to the frontlines in WWI to try to rally the troops - but was forced to abdicate after his wife made horrible decisions under the influence of Rasputin.
Nicholas II
Natural laws
Bismarck's plans and maneuvers
Holy Alliance
41. The philosophical ideology that simply rejected the concerns of modern philosophy - like god and morality. Mainly started with Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein.
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Cabral
Logical Empiricism
John Maynard Keynes
42. A period of reform for china in the attempt to meet the foreign challenge
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43. A French existentialist who said that people just 'turned up' and that there was no God to help honest people. Also said 'man is condemned to be free' and people had to choose their actions.
Jean Paul Sartre
Karlsbad Decrees
Salons
Enabling Act
44. This was the march by the women of Paris to the home of Marie Antoinette in order to demand action for the ridiculous raise in the price of bread
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45. A telegram which the French gave to the Germans in anger over the Succession of the Throne in Spain - but the Germans altered it to look like the French were rude and evil. The French declared war.
Tanzimat
Modern liberalism
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
Ems Telegram
46. These were Dutch settlers in south Africa
Charists
Boers / Afrikaners
Kristallnacht
Francis Xavier
47. Laws that classified a jew as someone having one or more jewish grandparent
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
Lateran Agreement
Elie Halévy
Nuremburg Laws
48. 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
North German Confederation Constitution
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
Labor aristocracy
Simony
49. This was the alliance between Austria Prussia and Russia on the crusade against the ideas and politics of the dual revolution.
Theory of Evolution
Liberalism (Classical Liberalism)
Responses to Imperialism: Traditionalist v. Modernist
Holy Alliance
50. Last Tsar of Russia - he involved the Russians in WWI
Nicholas II
Petrograd Soviet
Masaccio
Voltaire