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AP European History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This was the start of the building of foreign empires for trade and military advantages over other states






2. Egyptian army general who stepped into power after the French left. He reformed the army - the land - and the communication of Egypt






3. The twisted social idea that used the theory of evolution and applied to people






4. Was a Hungarian Communist politician who ruled Hungary as leader of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919






5. 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






6. This event happened to set laws for colonization and claiming land in Africa






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






8. This was the new feeling of pride for one's country after the Napoleonic era






9. A period of reform for china in the attempt to meet the foreign challenge

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10. 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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11. This was the philosophical belief that for every thesis ever - there is an opposing antithesis that creates a synthesis






12. The middle class frowned upon heavy drinking and the women were fond of fashion. Education was necessary and sexual purity was considered a virtue






13. An agreement/conference that gave Germany the Sudetenland






14. Mayor of Vienna whom Hitler idolized






15. A Dominican friar that predicted the French invasion of Florence from the paganism and the moral vice of the city






16. Hitler was popular for promising economic recovery and delivering

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17. This German - along with his partner Hindenburg - essentially ran Germany during the end of the war






18. He was a major French Renaissance writer - doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy and satire






19. The strip of Poland that the Germans wanted to take - specifically Danzig






20. Stalin's mass systemic murder of millions to instill fear and to have someone to fight against






21. This explorer first saw the mainland of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal while sailing to set up trading posts in India






22. Was an Austrian philosopher and a logical empiricist who argued in Essay on Logical Philosophy that great philosophical questions like god freedom and morality were 'quite literally senseless.'






23. This event showed that Germany was war hungry and turned the British onto the side of the French






24. Chief minister of the Nazi propaganda - and organizer of Kristallnacht






25. Dictator of Russia - named man of steel. Was of lowly backgrounds but rose to power. Only in it for himself. Created 5 year plans.






26. Was the authoritarian ruler of the Second Polish Republic. From mid-World War I he was a major influence in Poland's politics - and an important figure on the broader European political scene. He is considered largely responsible for Poland regaining






27. This king of Prussia was the king who gave into Prussia's constitution






28. This was the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War that recognized the independent authority of over three hundred German principalities






29. People wanted Italian unity because it would unify Italy - and they wanted a different government. People did not want unification because it went against the church - there were very different areas in the north and the south - and because they want






30. This man both helped to lead the first national union in England and advocated the use of children in factories






31. This was the first French president as a result of the election after the Revolution of 1848






32. An important canal to the British in Egypt






33. This man urged people to agitate for universal voting rights and to take control of the state peacefully






34. This man revolutionized the way to manufacture steel by making the process quicker and more efficient






35. These were the laws passed by the Parliament that prohibited the English people from forming a union






36. This was a Romantic writer who wrote prose and poetry






37. This event was where king Leopold of Belgium exploited Congo for his personal gain






38. This was the name of the military dictatorship that England took on during the reign of Oliver Cromwell






39. French offensive that resulted in an almost mutiny by the French military

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40. War preparations were unstoppable because once you started to prepare - you knew that your enemies were doing the same - and you could not stop - because if you did - your enemies could attack you

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41. Freud said that there was conscious - which you could control - and the subconscious. He said that the Id was living in the subconscious was just had primordial desires that wanted stuff like food and sex. Then there was the Superego that did not wan






42. Served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He founded and led the Estado Novo ('New State') - the authoritarian - right-wing government that presided over and controlled Portugal from 1932 to 1974.






43. This was the man who began studying fermentation to develop a way to avoid spoilage through pasteurization by heating the beverage






44. Was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of its systematic genocide against European Jewry during World War II - resulting in the final - most deadly phase of the Holocaust






45. Viennese founder of 12 tone music and turned back on conventional tones






46. This battle was a German victory against the Russian - the Russians were crushed






47. 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.






48. A French painter who used a impressionism called 'super-realism -' capture overall impression of the thing they were painting






49. 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.






50. 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