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AP European History
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1. He was chief of the general staff during WWI for the Germans
Logical Empiricism
Woodrow Wilson
Peace of Augsburg
Erich von Falkenhayn
2. This was the group of people that was important in converting Asians and Latin Americans to Catholicism which allowed for the mass spread of Christianity
Jesuits
Combination Acts
Zemstvo
William Gladstone
3. This was the Pope that called the Council of Trent
Pope Paul III
The Schlieffen Plan
1859 Garibaldi's invasion
Anton Denikin
4. This was the man who first theorized that the celestial bodies all revolved around a fixed sun
Meiji Restoration of 1867
Treaty of Nanking
Georges Clemenceau
Copernicus
5. This was the man who started the Church of England because he needed a reformation in Catholicism which would allow him to divorce his wife
Henry VIII
Henrí Matisse
Charles V
Dadaism
6. Differences between French and British were over the treatment of the Germans - specifically on the payment of reparations
Combination Acts
Sudetenland
British-French Tensions
Battle of Austerlitz
7. 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
Cottage industry
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Greek revolution
Paris Reconstruction
8. This man urged people to agitate for universal voting rights and to take control of the state peacefully
'Separation of powers'
Stalingrad
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Louis Blanc
9. A war between China and Japan for influence - power - and territory
Victor Emmanuel
Appeasement
Francis Xavier
Sino-Japanese War
10. This was the first man to isolate a bacterium and a virus and as a result h could create new vaccines for the disease
Rudolf Hess
Revanchisme
Robert Koch
Werner Heisenberg
11. This was the Scottish royal family that ruled England after Elizabeth I
World Markets / European foreign investment
The Stuarts
Titan
Henri Pétain
12. This was when the French left - and the British moved in and invaded and captured Egypt
Henry Bessemer
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Social Darwinism
Phalansteries
13. Russia's lower house of politics
Migration: Who went where - and why? (demographics)
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Duma
Michelangelo
14. This was the group that carried out the Reign of Terror
Pablo Picasso
Duma
Committee of Public Safety
Raymond Poincaré
15. 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
Anabaptists
Founding of the British empire in India
Peter the Great
Elie Halévy
16. One of the main points of Calvinism that said that God had already determined if you were damned or saved
Moroccan Crisis & Algeciras Conference 1906
Predestination
Combination Acts
Anton Denikin
17. The middle class frowned upon heavy drinking and the women were fond of fashion. Education was necessary and sexual purity was considered a virtue
Utopia
Surrealism
Middle class values
Duma
18. This was the royal dynasty of electors in Prussia
Hohenzollerns
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
John Calvin
Franz Joseph
19. The most of these were economical and not political - and even then were mostly only halfway efforts
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
Russian Modernization
Founding of the British empire in India
Dialectics
20. 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
Neville Chamberlain
Iwo Jima
Bacon
Stadholder
21. Three reasons anarchy was about and any person could create power; the Bolsheviks had better leaders; the Bolsheviks appealed to many workers
Goldhagen Thesis
Role of reason
Peter the Great
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
22. The old Tsarist secret police
Structure of German government
Founding of the British empire in India
Cheka
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -- the Black Hand
23. An occurrence in Russia that lead to the increase of its stature in world power standings and revitalized the economy and industry
Reparations
'Separation of powers'
Modernization
Liberalism (Classical Liberalism)
24. The working class still enjoyed drinking - although it was discouraged - they started to enjoy sports and music halls - although blood sports declined
Bauhaus
Deism
Working class leisure
Diet of Worms
25. This was the splitting up of Poland by Russia - Prussia - and Austria
Partition of Poland
Miasma Theory / Germ Theory
Cardinal Mazarin
Swallows / Repatriation
26. Bismarck placed high tariffs on imported goods - and tried to stop socialism with government measures that banned the socialist party
Battles of the Marne
German social legislation
Gravrilo Princip
Theodor Herzl
27. These revolutions occurred in 1)France - because of the depression and rising unemployment rates caused starvation in France in which they then overthrew the bourgeois monarchy 2)Austria - because the Hungarians rebelled against the Austrian Empire a
Revolutions of 1848
Pope Paul III
James Joyce
Victor Emmanuel
28. This rivalry developed because of the increasing naval race - and because Germany was becoming increasingly militaristic
Georges Sorel
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
Development of Anglo-German rivalry & Naval arms race
Quadruple Alliance
29. An artistic movement that had a purposely nonsensical name - expressing its total rejection of previous modern art.
Dadaism
Cottage industry
Decline of Ottoman Empire
'White' forces
30. 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
Franz von Papen
Maria Theresa
Henry Labouchière
Reign of Terror
31. The big 4 were US - Britain - France and Italy
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32. He was an architect who designed a hospital for orphans and foundlings set up by the silk-workers guild in Florence
Comintern
Brunelleschi
Sudetenland
Battles of the Marne
33. This was the reaction to the despotism after the Second Revolution which led to the establishment of the five-man executive that supported the French military which was not popular with the French people
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
Gabriel Marcel
Henrí Matisse
British Opium Trade / Opium Wars
34. The conservative party in Britain was put down when the king threatened to make more liberal seats to pass bills that the conservatives were vetoing
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Diaz
Encyclopedia
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
35. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Descartes
Newton
Nicholas II
Magellan
36. A radical idealistic patriot who wanted a centralized democratic republic based on universal male suffrage and will of the people in Italy
James Joyce
War of Austrian Succession
October Manifesto
Giuseppe Mazzini
37. 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
Justifications for Imperialism
Functionalism
October Manifesto
Otto von Bismarck
38. The Dreyfus affair lead to the separation of church and state - and lead to more people in government backed schools that were no longer catholic schools but republican schools.
French educational reforms
Battle of Austerlitz
Comintern
Harvey
39. Last Tsar of Russia - he involved the Russians in WWI
Nicholas II
Jesuits
Rosa Luxembourg
Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)
40. This was the king who started the success of Spain's foreign colonies
Socialists and Nationalism
Quadruple Alliance
Wilhelm II Mustafa Kemal
Philip II of Spain
41. 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'
Béla Kun
People's Budget
A-bombs - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
Vespucci
42. The Greeks revolted against the Ottomans for their independence - to which the Concert generally opposed to this
Greek revolution
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Boyle
Diet of Worms
43. These were conclusions reached by the philosophes against which debate was impossible
Natural laws
Congo exploitation
Proletariat
John Kay
44. An obscure German high school teacher who wrote Decline of the West - said the west was about to be conquered by Asians.
Dreyfus Affair
Oswald Spengler
Second International
Charles II
45. The strains lead to millions of people dead - and many revolutions and restructuring
Salons
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
Rousseau
Claude Monet
46. This man was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in India
Magellan
Francisco Franco
William and Mary
Ranjit Singh
47. This was a policy of discriminatory laws designed to keep Asians out of countries
Frederick the Great
Great White Walls
Cottage industry
Edict of Nantes
48. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the Holy Roman Empire
Doge
Karl Lueger
Ghibeleines
Triple Entente & Triple Alliance
49. The largest political party in Sweden - who pushed for social reform legislation - and drew support from community and socialist and capitalist working together.
German social legislation
Social Democrats
Erich Ludendorff
The Stuarts
50. German physicist who proved that subatomic energy was emitted from particles - he called them 'quanta'
Kristallnacht
'Socialism in one country'
Max Planck
Revolutions of 1848