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AP European History
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1. This American naval officer was the driving factor in Japan's opening by using gunboat diplomacy
Otto von Bismarck
Martin Luther
Josef Pilsudaski
Matthew Perry
2. This was the man who served under Cardinal Richelieu and laid the foundations for Louis XIV's expansionist policies
William I
Cardinal Mazarin
Utopia
Johann Tetzel
3. A form of Protestantism in which the believers were pacifists and would shake at the power of the word of the Lord
Quakers
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
Labor-Liberal-Conservative Cooperation in Britain
Leon Gambetta
4. Great British prime minister who advocated peace and a policy of appeasement
Neville Chamberlain
War of Spanish Succession
Francesco Sforza
Roundheads and Cavaliers
5. 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
Walter Scott
The Protectorate
Philip II of Spain
Reasons for and against Italian unity
6. This rivalry developed because of the increasing naval race - and because Germany was becoming increasingly militaristic
Henry Labouchière
Louis XVIII
Development of Anglo-German rivalry & Naval arms race
Grigori Rasputin
7. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
Carbonari
Justifications for Imperialism
Diet of Worms
8. Mayor of Vienna whom Hitler idolized
Karl Lueger
Harvey
Botticelli
'Bloody Sunday' (1905) - Causes - actions - effects
9. These were Dutch settlers in south Africa
Boers / Afrikaners
Magellan
Great Rebellion (Indian Mutiny)
'Blood and Iron'
10. The idea that human beings simply exist - have no higher purpose - and must exist and choose their actions for themselves. Existentialism mainly influenced by Nietzsche. Existentialism sustain popularity in Germany with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jasp
Existentialism
John Constable (The Haywain)
War of Austrian Succession
Louis Blanc
11. This was an influential French writer who wrote about naturalism and was often criticized
Emile Zola
Congo exploitation
Jean Paul Sartre
Protestantism
12. Austria invades Italy and the French come in to help the Italians. The Italians and the French are very successful and gain Lombardy.
Peace of Augsburg
Catherine the Great
Austro-Sardinian War
Muhammad Ali
13. This explorer first saw the mainland of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal while sailing to set up trading posts in India
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Cardinal Richelieu
Cabral
Reichstag fire & fallout
14. This was a man who helped Ignatius of Loyola to start the Jesuits. He also was famous for his number of missionaries he went on to promote Christianity
Francis Xavier
Conservative Authoritarianism
John Calvin
First - Second - Third Balkan War
15. The old Tsarist secret police
Dunkirk
Kulturkampf
Cheka
Oliver Cromwell
16. French revisionist socialist who repudiated revisionist doctrines to achieve a unified socialist state
Women in totalitarian states
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Michelangelo
Jean Jaures
17. A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out
Nicholas II
Boxer Rebellion
Alexander III
Josef Pilsudaski
18. This man revolutionized the way to manufacture steel by making the process quicker and more efficient
Karl Lueger
Quadruple Alliance
Henry Bessemer
Triple Entente & Triple Alliance
19. This was the Pope that called the Council of Trent
Rump Parliament
Adolphe Thiers
Pope Paul III
Jean Jaures
20. He was an architect who designed a hospital for orphans and foundlings set up by the silk-workers guild in Florence
Ferdinand and Isabella
Brunelleschi
Sergei Witte
Seven Years' War
21. Objectives were to increase industrial output by 250% and agriculture output by 150% and have 1/5 of Russian peasants on collective farms. The methods were forced farming and scare tactics like gulags. The success was that of industry - which produce
Five Year plans - objectives - methods - success
Paris Reconstruction
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
'Crown from the gutter'
22. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
Francesco Sforza
Jean Paul Sartre
Theory of Evolution
Alfred von Schlieffen
23. The philosophical ideology that simply rejected the concerns of modern philosophy - like god and morality. Mainly started with Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein.
Warren Hastings
Logical Empiricism
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
Phalansteries
24. 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
Karl Barth
Pope Alexander VI
Warren Hastings
Giuseppe Mazzini
25. The Austrians tried to stop the nationalism of different people in their country from tearing them apart - but it did not work
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26. A short political treatise about political power how the ruler should gain - maintain - and increase it. Machiavelli explores the problems of human nature and concludes that human beings are selfish and out to advance their own interests
Brumaire Coup and The Consulate
Committee of Public Safety
The Prince
Witte's reforms
27. The rule of a nation or state by a few people
'Socialism in one country'
The Prince
Oligarchy
Johann Gutenberg
28. Last Tsar of Russia - he involved the Russians in WWI
Oedipal Complex
Francesco Sforza
Louis XVIII
Nicholas II
29. These were the 'radicals' in Reformation in which someone would choose if they wanted to be baptized
Robert Castlereagh
Natural laws
Anabaptists
Pope Paul III
30. Failed allied offensive that resulted in a lot of loss of life
Battle of the Somme
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Robert Koch
William Wordsworth
31. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Austrian 'anti-nationalism'
Surplus Value
Magellan
Revisionism
32. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing
Rudolf Hess
Reasons for and against German unity
War of Austrian Succession
Impressionism
33. 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
Benjamin Disraeli
Peterloo
Joseph Goebbels
34. One of the leaders of The Mountain
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Open Door Policy
Danton
Innovations in weaponry
35. The idea that Britain could pacify Germany and make sure there was no war at any cost.
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Development of Anglo-German rivalry & Naval arms race
Mussolini's Rise - role of Black Shirts
Appeasement
36. A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Søren Kierkegaard
The Protectorate
John Knox
Zionism
37. He wanted to unify Germany - but played it safe - with many alliances and pacts - and ends up being amazing
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38. 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.
Mein Kampf
Cavour's program
National self-determination
Werner Heisenberg
39. German Foreign Minister who assumed leadership of government and got the French to move out of the Ruhr
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Gustav Stresemann
Why war was seen as a good thing in 1914
Petrarch
40. When France occupied the Ruhr coal fields to demand that the German pay their reparations
Congo exploitation
Ruhr Crisis 1923
Ninety-five Theses
da Gama
41. The political mastermind behind all of Sardinia's unification plans - he succeeded in creating a Northern Italian nation state
Camillo di Cavour
October Manifesto
Francisco Franco
Urban living conditions
42. The area near Czechoslovakia that was mainly German ethnicity that Germany took.
Jean Jaures
Popular Front
Rhineland remilitarization
Sudetenland
43. This early Italian nationalist believed that doing labor for the principles of one's country is labor for humanity
Post-Impressionism
Francis I
Giuseppe Mazzini
William II
44. This was the conference at which the Troppau Protocol was signed in which any country that underwent a revolution was no longer part of the European Alliance
Peace of Westphalia
Nicholas II
Battle of Tannenberg
Troppau Conference
45. A last ditch attempt to beat the allies after the Germans defeated the Russians
China's Hundred Days of Reform
German 1918 Offensive
Romanticism
Georges Haussmann
46. 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
The Restoration
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Theodor Herzl
Progress of the War
47. Hitler's book in which he outlined his ideas on race - living space - and the Fuhrer
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Erich Ludendorff
Mein Kampf
Franz von Papen
48. 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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49. This was the work that started the tabula rasa theory where the human mind is blank until it is filled with experiences that allow a person to think differently
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Maynard Keynes
Francisco Franco
Ruhr Crisis 1923
50. They had a strong top government and they had a Reichstag - or the lower house of parliament
Structure of German government
Austro-Sardinian War
Alexander II
Russian (March) Revolution/ Provisional Government