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AP European History
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1. Was a French philosopher and historian who wrote Era of Tyrannies - which talked about the different kinds of government and how they all stemmed out of nature of modern war.
Philip II of Spain
'Blood and Iron'
Harvey
Elie Halévy
2. A tough finance minister who thought that Russia's industrial backwardness was threatening Russia's power and greatness
'Conquistadors'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Anton Denikin
Sergei Witte
3. Zeppelins - airplanes - gas - machine guns - tanks - These things were new ideas that really did not work very well
Vespucci
Innovations in weaponry
Giuseppe Mazzini
'Bloody Sunday' (1905) - Causes - actions - effects
4. Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church
Kulturkampf
William II
Radical Dictatorships
Boers / Afrikaners
5. 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
Comintern
Importance of Germany's campaign through Belgium
Alexander II
Seven Years' War
6. This man's work was extremely influential for the Romantic Movement
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Reasons for Russian weakness
Ninety-five Theses
Rousseau
7. This was the man who served under Cardinal Richelieu and laid the foundations for Louis XIV's expansionist policies
Cardinal Mazarin
The Schlieffen Plan
Paul Valéry
Leon Blum
8. He wanted to unify Germany - but played it safe - with many alliances and pacts - and ends up being amazing
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9. This was the physicist who said nothing can be known beyond all doubt
Erich von Falkenhayn
Zionism
Pietism
Boyle
10. This was the royal dynasty of Austria that ruled over a vast part of Central Europe while battling with the Turks over Hungary
Hapsburgs
Boers / Afrikaners
Natural laws
One man - one plan - one mustache
11. This war showed that Russia was still not strong - and it caused revolution back at home.
Alexander III
William I
Walther Rathenau
Russo-Japanese War - impact in Russia
12. Was a pact that said that just said was bad - but did not outline any method for preventing war.
Russo-Japanese War
da Gama
Tennis Court Oath
Kellogg-Briand Pact
13. The man who began the humanism movement and he believed that he was living the start of new era
Rudyard Kipling
Whigs and Tories
Egyptian Nationalist Party
Petrarch
14. Upper class and Conservatives did not want unification because they would have less power - but the rest of the people wanted it because of nationalism and German identity
Reasons for and against German unity
Giotto
Partition of Poland
Neville Chamberlain
15. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance
Philosophes
Ninety-five Theses
Problems of trench life
Extension of suffrage in Britain
16. 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.
British-French Tensions
Great Purges
The New Physics
Gustav Stresemann
17. The members of the Grand alliance were America - Britain - and the Soviet Union; their goals were to Smash the aggressors - Europe first - then Asia
Hitler's Popularity - how popular - why
Grand Alliance - members - goals
Leon Blum
Reichstag fire & fallout
18. When Germany moved through Belgium - it caused Britain to go on the side of the war with France.
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19. French military leader who assumed control of France and lead it out of the war successfully
Henri Pétain
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Elizabeth I
Thirty Years' War
20. The cause was people wanted to present a petition to the Tsar - the action was people getting shot - the effect was people disliking the Tsar and turning on him
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21. This was given to Austria form Germany that guaranteed full military backing in any war
Paris Commune
Joseph Lister
July Diplomacy - the Blank Check
Russo-Japanese War
22. Isolation to protect against the corruptive west - and a forced opening for reasons of trace
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23. This was the name given to the person appointed by the States General to carry out ceremonial functions in a province in the Netherlands
War of Spanish Succession
June Days
Stadholder
Problems of trench life
24. This French king appointed Cardinal Richelieu
Girondists
Post-Impressionism
The Middle Way
Louis XIII
25. One of the costliest battles in WWI - was mainly useless and just people died
Robert Clive
Igor Stravinsky
'Universal Man'
Battle of Verdun
26. The French Revolution of 1830 occurred because Louis XVIII only granted a small percentage of people the right to vote and Charles X attack of Algeria and as a result - he censored the press and limited the voting rights of the wealthy
Dawes Plan
Jean Bodin
Revolutions of 1830
Roundheads and Cavaliers
27. This was the document published by Henry IV that granted liberty of conscience and liberty of public worship to the Huguenots
Modern liberalism
Edict of Nantes
October Manifesto
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
28. Last Tsar of Russia - he involved the Russians in WWI
Nicholas II
Glorious Revolution
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Peter the Great
29. This was the motto of the age of exploration. The explorers were looking for money - glory - or to convert non-Christians
Peter the Great
Gold Glory and God
Robert Koch
Doge
30. The German chancellor during the Weimar Republic who convinced the president to accept rule by decree
Japanese 'opening' of Korea
Heinrich Brüning
Tennis Court Oath
Pablo Picasso
31. This was a way of thinking that God exists - but does not intervene in daily life - for he already has a plan for the universe that cannot be altered
Donatello
Congress of Vienna
Erich von Falkenhayn
Deism
32. 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
Troppau Conference
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
Revolutions of 1848
Karl Barth
33. This was the treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession
Nievelle's Offensive
Modern liberalism
Peace of Utrecht
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
34. 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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35. Dictator of Russia - named man of steel. Was of lowly backgrounds but rose to power. Only in it for himself. Created 5 year plans.
Cecil Rhodes
'Blood and Iron'
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
Louis Blanc
36. The two rival communists groups. One weree true revolutionary Marxists - and the other were revisionist socialists.
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Joseph Conrad
Iwo Jima
Surrealism
37. A concept used to describe political systems whereby a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. These regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda dis
Totalitarianism
Crimean War - impact in Britain & Russia
Congo exploitation
Gravrilo Princip
38. A Siberian preacher who became friends of the Tsars - but hated by the public - twisted and cheated and exploited Alexandra.
Impressionism
Robert Castlereagh
Pan-Slavism
Grigori Rasputin
39. This was the system set up by the Quadruple Alliance to meet periodically to talk about common issues
Nicholas II
Giuseppe Mazzini
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
Russian Modernization
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
Cavour's program
Anton Denikin
Georges Sorel
Great Rebellion (Indian Mutiny)
41. The plan that Germany would attack France quickly and then move towards Russia
Alfred Dreyfus
Walther Rathenau
Duma
The Schlieffen Plan
42. The socialist idea that we should embrace socialism in a gradual advance - with no bloody war
Nuremburg Laws
'Spanish Armada'
Revisionism
Newton
43. Was a reaction to the loss of faith in humans - which came from the war - and lead to renewed interest in Christian view of the world. Major people were Kierkegaard - Barth - and Marcel.
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
Battles of the Marne
Christian Revival
English Civil War
44. 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
Nikolai Bukharin
Francis Xavier
'Liberty - Equality - Fraternity'
Wealth of Nations
45. This was the group that gave work to the unemployed
Thirty Years' War
National Workshops
Women's March on Versailles
Leon Trotsky
46. The area near Czechoslovakia that was mainly German ethnicity that Germany took.
Roundheads and Cavaliers
Surrealism
Sudetenland
Robespierre
47. A futile battle that resulted in millions dead
Alexander III
Liberalism (Classical Liberalism)
Leon Trotsky
Passchendaele
48. 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
Harvey
Migration: Who went where - and why? (demographics)
Quakers
Surrealism
49. This event occurred when both Britain and France wanted the town of Fashoda; in the end - the British gained control of the town - because the French gave up
Béla Kun
Rudolf Hess
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
Malthus (On Population)
50. A 'super patriot' of Italy - he helped unify southern Italy with the help of his Red Shirts
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Vespucci
Edict of Nantes
Qing Dynasty