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AP European History

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1. 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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2. This was an artistic patron that spent vast sums on family chapels - frescoes - religious panels and






3. This was the motto of the age of exploration. The explorers were looking for money - glory - or to convert non-Christians






4. This ship was sunk with Americans on it - and this action by the Germans was what ultimately caused the Americans to enter the war






5. This was the first explorer who rounded the southern tip of the Cape of Good Hope but was never able to go all the way around






6. A Siberian preacher who became friends of the Tsars - but hated by the public - twisted and cheated and exploited Alexandra.






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






8. One of the members of the banker family of Florence that ruled behind the scenes of the government






9. This British foreign minister was a supporter of Metternich






10. Gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years






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






12. The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags






13. Sardinia's monarch who helped unite Italy






14. Member of the Liberal party in Great Britain who helped raise taxes on the rich - and reform in general






15. Austria invades Italy and the French come in to help the Italians. The Italians and the French are very successful and gain Lombardy.






16. An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images






17. Leaders who violently rejected parliamentary restraint and liberal values - as well as exercised unprecedented control over masses and sought to mobilize them for war.






18. This was the French supporter of Metternich's balance of power idea






19. This man wrote Heart of Darkness - where he criticized the Europeans in their civilizing






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. This Romantic work shows a crew shipwrecked






24. 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






25. Was a pact that said that just said was bad - but did not outline any method for preventing war.






26. A mass flee of British troops of the coast of France - disaster - lost thousands of machines and vehicles






27. This was the Prussian king who embraced culture and wrote poetry and prose. He gave religious and philosophical toleration to all subjects - abolished torture and made the laws simpler






28. This was the group that carried out the Reign of Terror






29. Bolshevik revolutionary and political and intellectual thinker for Stalin. Supported the NEP






30. This was the group of people in the National Assembly that met to discuss the political questions of the day






31. This work advocated economic and moral freedom of individuals from the state. This work is enormously influential to politics today






32. The so called 'father of the Turks -' he founded what is now known as Turkey and defended against British attack






33. This was the man who starting absolutism in Prussia by uniting the three provinces of Prussia under one ruler.






34. The new idea that revitalized the period of expansion and gathering of colonies

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






36. This was the style of capitalism in which the government had no interference with the economy






37. This was the king who issued the Edict of Nantes






38. This was the expression used after the Revolutions of 1848 where Friedrich Wilhelm refused to just take the throne of Prussia

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39. An effective and almost dictator-like leader of France - who would not take defeat as an answer






40. 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






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






42. This was a German dynasty that often had conflicts with the Habsburgs that often involved other countries and papal troops






43. An energized movement of radicals from Sicily to the mainland and gaining land for unification

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






45. A revisionist social who advocated the gradual gain of socialism and looked towards Darwin's doctrines as a measure for a change in socialism's tactics






46. This was the man who was hired by Archbishop Albert of Mainz to sell indulgences - which he did extremely successfully






47. This was the group of people called by Louis XVI that would keep the king in check like the English Parliament






48. 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






49. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag






50. These were the two parties in the Parliament. The Whigs were mostly liberal and wanted change while the Tories wanted to keep the government as it was