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AP European History

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1. This was the alliance between Austria Prussia and Russia on the crusade against the ideas and politics of the dual revolution.






2. This was the revolt by the Netherland against the Spanish in order to create their independent state






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

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4. This was the working class in that was constantly battling against the bourgeois factory owners






5. These were the major families in Europe that had the most power and control of the wealth in a state






6. This was the man who first theorized that the celestial bodies all revolved around a fixed sun






7. Austrian born Dictator of Germany - implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.






8. The motto of the French Revolution and the demands of the popular people

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






11. This was one of the reforms in England in which the leaders wanted all Catholic elements in the Church of England eliminated






12. An obscure German high school teacher who wrote Decline of the West - said the west was about to be conquered by Asians.






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






14. The Enlightenment thinkers used reason to deduct conclusions about everyday life






15. An occurrence in Russia that lead to the increase of its stature in world power standings and revitalized the economy and industry






16. Britain gained this territory by slowly asserting influence and putting people in charge






17. Hitler's book in which he outlined his ideas on race - living space - and the Fuhrer






18. These were Mussolini's bullies who pushed socialist out of Northern Italy

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19. The serbs assassinated the archduke to make a statement - and the Austrians got really pissed - because he was the next in line for the throne and the guy on the throne then was old






20. A futile battle that resulted in millions dead






21. This man was a poet - playwright and novelist and wrote one of the best known novels ever (Don Quixote)






22. German physicist who proved that subatomic energy was emitted from particles - he called them 'quanta'






23. 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






24. This man was an active player in the French Revolution of 1848 who helped in the overthrow of Charles X






25. Combined German and Italian forces were beaten near Alexandria - which lead to the Allied taking of Morocco and Algeria






26. 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






27. The American plan to loan money to Germany - who would pay their reparations to France and Britain - who would pay back their debt to America - which created a win-win for everyone - and made they people happy and thought that peace was possible






28. A Weimar (German) architectural school created by Walter Gropius which combined the fine arts and functionalism






29. First comedy writer that wrote 100 verses that described the realms of the next world






30. These were Dutch settlers in south Africa






31. Man who created the printing press and changed the production and reading of books






32. A Swiss Protestant theologian who said people were sinful and that religious truth was made know to humans only through God's grace - and people just had to accept God as true and be obedient.






33. This socialist man believed that property is theft






34. Some people thought that we should accept and learn from the people who were taking over our land - these being the modernists; and other thought that we should completely try to get rid of them - these people being the traditionalists






35. A Dutch expressionist who painted a 'moving visions in his mind's eye'






36. Felt that Aryan white people were most superior - Scandinavian were 2nd best - French were 3rd - and the slavs - jews - and pretty much the rest were the worst






37. The acceptance of Stalin though propaganda






38. 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






39. This was the man who planned the reconstruction of Paris






40. 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






41. The main leader of The Mountain and the man who ruled France after the First Revolution






42. This was the king who started the success of Spain's foreign colonies






43. This war showed that the Russian were way behind the rest of the world - and needed reform.






44. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and foremost general for the White Russians in the Russian civil war.






45. This war showed that Russia was still not strong - and it caused revolution back at home.






46. 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






47. Man who revolutionized the one-hand loom and increased the production done by one worker






48. Putting smaller farms together into one large farm so as to increase productivity






49. 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






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