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AP European History
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1. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the Holy Roman Empire
Fascism
Ghibeleines
Enabling Act
Quakers
2. This man was a British soldier who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. He is credited with securing India - and the wealth that followed - for the British crown.
World Markets / European foreign investment
Robert Clive
Zionism
Franz Joseph
3. The joining of Austria and Hungary under two different crowns
Peace of Westphalia
Cecil Rhodes
Erasmus
Dual Monarchy
4. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Magellan
British-French Tensions
Oswald Spengler
Adolf Hitler
5. The common crime of paying for holy offices for the position of power
Justifications for Imperialism
Salons
English Civil War
Simony
6. The strains lead to millions of people dead - and many revolutions and restructuring
Nicholas II
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
'Effective Occupation'
Franz Joseph
7. This was the philosopher that believed that a strong central government was needed to avoid rebellion and civil war
Robert Castlereagh
The Prince
Thomas Hobbes
Jacobins
8. 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
Danton
Importance of Germany's campaign through Belgium
D-Day
Brumaire Coup and The Consulate
9. Britain gained this territory by slowly asserting influence and putting people in charge
Founding of the British empire in India
Franz Joseph
Charles Darwin
Structure of German government
10. This is the value of the unpaid surplus labor performed by the worker for the capitalist for profit
Catherine the Great
Modern imperialism
Surplus Value
Russian Modernization
11. The German chancellor during the Weimar Republic who convinced the president to accept rule by decree
Heinrich Brüning
Pietism
Henry VIII
Hus
12. The trench was dirty - wet - smelly - and full of death - and you waited to die at any moment
Robert Castlereagh
Problems of trench life
Erich von Falkenhayn
Battle of Verdun
13. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy
Tennis Court Oath
Carbonari
Wycliffe
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
14. This was the man who created the spinning jenny which began the actual Industrial Revolution and the beginning of machines doing a man's work
Stalin's rise
'Crown from the gutter'
Karl Lueger
James Hargreaves
15. Bismarck placed high tariffs on imported goods - and tried to stop socialism with government measures that banned the socialist party
German social legislation
Anabaptists
The Commonwealth of England
Romanticism
16. Differences between French and British were over the treatment of the Germans - specifically on the payment of reparations
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
Thirty Years' War
Kronstadt Rebels
British-French Tensions
17. An effective and almost dictator-like leader of France - who would not take defeat as an answer
Laissez-faire capitalism
Victor Hugo
Realism
Georges Clemenceau
18. This was the man who first theorized that the celestial bodies all revolved around a fixed sun
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Copernicus
Gallipoli
Henry Labouchière
19. German socialist revolutionary who was assassinated after the war
Shakespeare
Rosa Luxembourg
Hohenzollerns
Robert Nievelle
20. One of the Bloodiest battles in the war - a fight to the death for Japanese soldiers - as the Americans were coming closer to Japan
Existentialism
Paris Reconstruction
Iwo Jima
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
21. French stockbroker turned painter - pioneered expressionist techniques and fled to South Pacific
Jean Paul Sartre
Paul Gaugin
Peasants' War
'White' forces
22. This was a man who believed that Christian life rested on the Scriptures and a prominent leader in the Swiss Reformation. He went on to attack indulgences - the Mass - the institution of monasticism - and clerical celibacy
'New Imperialism'
War Communism
Ulrich Zwingli
Hohenzollerns
23. 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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24. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and foremost general for the White Russians in the Russian civil war.
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Anton Denikin
Rudyard Kipling
Women in totalitarian states
25. The big 4 were US - Britain - France and Italy
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26. This was a pianist in the Romanticism era that was a star in his day
Franz Liszt
Deism
Louis Napoleon's rise & ideas on gov't
Young Turks
27. A Liberal British Prime Minister who gave concessions to various parties and ultimately introduced bills for Irish self-governance
Magellan
William Gladstone
Kepler
July Decrees
28. 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
Joseph Goebbels
Malthus (On Population)
Meiji Restoration of 1867
Munich Conference
29. 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
Vespucci
Dawes Plan
Revolutions of 1848
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
30. The three countries of Italy - Germany - and Japan allied together
Gabriel Marcel
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Commercial revolution
da Gama
31. 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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32. Replaces the Provisional Government with Lenin's forces
Meiji Restoration of 1867
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
Nicholas II
Women in totalitarian states
33. One of the costliest battles in WWI - was mainly useless and just people died
Natural laws
Battle of Verdun
Goldhagen Thesis
Tennis Court Oath
34. The idea that people should determine who and what they want leading them
Conservative Authoritarianism
National self-determination
Harvey
Kellogg-Briand Pact
35. When the German economy tried to print bills to pay off their debt - inflation rates of 40% a day
Alexander III
Johann Tetzel
Hyperinflation
Francis Xavier
36. This is the act in which Napoleon ended the Directory by ousting the Directors and disbanding the legislature. He then established a strong military dictatorship in place of the weak Directory
Luddites
Renaissance Popes
Ulrich Zwingli
Brumaire Coup and The Consulate
37. Austria invades Italy and the French come in to help the Italians. The Italians and the French are very successful and gain Lombardy.
Stream-of-Consciousness
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Nepotism
Austro-Sardinian War
38. This was the pope that granted power to Ferdinand and Isabella to appoint bishops to the Spanish territories and also settled the argument between Spain and Portugal over South America
Kulturkampf
Hapsburgs
Pope Alexander VI
Victor Emmanuel
39. This philosopher showed the overall attitude of the Enlightenment by saying 'have the courage to use your own understanding'
Alexander I
Totalitarianism
Savonarola
Kant
40. 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
Estates-General
Dante
Brumaire Coup and The Consulate
41. 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
French educational reforms
Louis XIII
Kristallnacht
Responses to Imperialism: Traditionalist v. Modernist
42. This war showed that the Russian were way behind the rest of the world - and needed reform.
Crimean War - impact in Britain & Russia
Middle class values
Alliances 1873-1914 & German isolation
Surrealism
43. 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
Anti-Semitism
Leon Gambetta
John Kay
Comintern
44. These were conclusions reached by the philosophes against which debate was impossible
Reasons for Russian weakness
Hitler's goals
Natural laws
North German Confederation Constitution
45. Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church
Theory of Evolution
Peace of Westphalia
Kulturkampf
Rosa Luxembourg
46. This was the other common crime in which the members of the church would give positions to relatives
Frederick the Great
Nepotism
Alexander I
William Gladstone
47. Austrian born Dictator of Germany - implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.
Adolf Hitler
Triple Entente & Triple Alliance
Mein Kampf
Wealth of Nations
48. A successful politician in France - he was a moderate republican who helped stabilize government
Ismail Ali
Henri-Philippe Pétain
Robert Nievelle
Leon Gambetta
49. These were the liberals of France who did not want to execute Louis XVI - but The Mountain did anyway
Girondists
Igor Stravinsky
David Lloyd George
Titan
50. This was the new feeling of pride for one's country after the Napoleonic era
Karl Lueger
Goldhagen Thesis
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Nationalism