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AP European History
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1. Hitler used this to launch his dictatorship and used this to give him power. It was a fire of a capital building
William Gladstone
Reichstag fire & fallout
Uncertainty Principle
Austro-Sardinian War
2. Decisive battle in German invasion of Russia - the Germans were surrounded and systemically destroyed
Social Democrats
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Henry Bessemer
Stalingrad
3. The war lost 15 million lives and cost 196 billion in today's money
Alexander Kerensky
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
Alliances 1873-1914 & German isolation
Duma
4. The philosophical ideology that simply rejected the concerns of modern philosophy - like god and morality. Mainly started with Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein.
'The White Man's Burden'
Logical Empiricism
English Civil War
Adolf Hitler
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
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
Nicholas II
Reasons for and against Italian unity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. These were the French Calvinists that were often persecuted until the Edict of Nantes
Open Door Policy
Huguenots
Jean Paul Sartre
Gabriel Marcel
7. This was the man who first said that the Americas were completely separate from Asia - thus the continent was named after him
Vespucci
William and Mary
Leon Blum
Banking Families
8. This British foreign minister was a supporter of Metternich
Effects of the Scientific Revolution
Index of Prohibited Literature
Greek revolution
Robert Castlereagh
9. This was the man who began studying fermentation to develop a way to avoid spoilage through pasteurization by heating the beverage
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
Pragmatic Sanction
Louis Pasteur
Whigs and Tories
10. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and foremost general for the White Russians in the Russian civil war.
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
Reparations
Council of Trent
Anton Denikin
11. The members of the Grand alliance were America - Britain - and the Soviet Union; their goals were to Smash the aggressors - Europe first - then Asia
Soviet quality of life
Woodrow Wilson
Karl Barth
Grand Alliance - members - goals
12. An agreement/conference that gave Germany the Sudetenland
Combination Acts
Munich Conference
Sino-Japanese War
Enclosure movement
13. Was the French political alliance that allied the Communists - the Socialists - and the Radicals together.
Functionalism
Popular Front
Reasons for and against German unity
Pablo Picasso
14. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing
Theory of Evolution
Revisionism
Impressionism
Elie Halévy
15. A local coulcil of politicians to deal with local problems in Russia
Zemstvo
Robespierre
Béla Kun
Louis Napoleon's rise & ideas on gov't
16. This was the treaty that ended the War of Austrian Succession by giving the Prussians land - taking land away from Maria Theresa - but still allowing her to rule
Cavour's program
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Walter Gropius
17. Bolshevik revolutionary and political and intellectual thinker for Stalin. Supported the NEP
Hitler's Foreign Policy
Leopold II
Eli Whitney
Nikolai Bukharin
18. The Dreyfus affair lead to the separation of church and state - and lead to more people in government backed schools that were no longer catholic schools but republican schools.
Kristallnacht
Lawrence of Arabia
Ricardo (Iron Law of Wages)
French educational reforms
19. This queen of England chose a religion between the Puritans and Catholics and required her subjects to attend church or face a fine. She also required uniformity and conformity to the Church of England
Pablo Picasso
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Saint-Simon
Elizabeth I
20. This was the idea of occupying land so that a country could claim it
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21. He was a major French Renaissance writer - doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy and satire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Francesco Sforza
Hapsburgs
Rabelais
22. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia
Henry Bessemer
Oligarchy
Final Solution / Holocaust
Catherine the Great
23. This physicist developed the law of universal gravitation and further caused the decline of the old system of science
Natural laws
Appeasement
Newton
Cecil Rhodes
24. This Romantic work shows a crew shipwrecked
Frederick Elector of Saxony
Ukrainian Famine
Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
Favorable balance of trade
25. An extreme abstract expressionist - leader of 'the beasts -' focused on arrangement of color - line and form
Sun Yatsen
Wilhelm II Mustafa Kemal
Henrí Matisse
Ninety-five Theses
26. 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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27. The main leader of The Mountain and the man who ruled France after the First Revolution
Humanism
Robespierre
'Socialism in one country'
Phalansteries
28. This philosopher showed the overall attitude of the Enlightenment by saying 'have the courage to use your own understanding'
Nikolai Bukharin
Bacon
Kant
Founding of the British empire in India
29. This man believed that the moral worth of an action is determined by its contribution to happiness as summed among all persons
Enabling Act
Nievelle's Offensive
Roundheads and Cavaliers
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
30. The trench was dirty - wet - smelly - and full of death - and you waited to die at any moment
James II
Problems of trench life
Raymond Poincaré
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
31. This was the vast amount of ships sent by Phillip II to attack England because of the conflicts between Phillip II and Mary - Queen of Scots
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32. This was the group that carried out the Reign of Terror
Phalansteries
Ranjit Singh
Committee of Public Safety
Douglas Haig
33. An important canal to the British in Egypt
Louis XVIII
Suez Canal
Sun Yatsen
Glorious Revolution
34. This was a short ottoman parliament designed to model the western model of an empire
Reparations
Dialectics
Tanzimat
Social Democrats
35. Pope who denounced unification and published the Syllabus of Errors
Alexandra
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
June Days
Pius IX
36. These decrees required the thirty-eight German member states to root out subversive ideas in the universities and newspapers an established a permanent committee with spies and informers to investigate and punish any liberal or radical organizations
Karlsbad Decrees
Urban planning and public transit
First - Second - Third Balkan War
Dadaism
37. 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
Hohenzollerns
Theory of Evolution
William II
British Opium Trade / Opium Wars
38. This was the line drawn by Alexander VI that gave Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America
Line of Demarcation
Peter the Great
Charles V
Development of Anglo-German rivalry & Naval arms race
39. These laws forbade the importation of foreign grain without the prices in England rising substantially
Austro-Sardinian War
Corn Laws
Three Estates
Nationalism
40. This was the man who starting absolutism in Prussia by uniting the three provinces of Prussia under one ruler.
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
Giuseppe Mazzini
Treaty of Paris (1763)
War Communism
41. 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
Prince Henry the Navigator
The Courtier
James Joyce
42. This was a policy of discriminatory laws designed to keep Asians out of countries
Reform Bill of 1832
Sergei Kirov
Russo-Japanese War
Great White Walls
43. This man was one of the early and influential socialist thinkers who proclaimed the tremendous possibilities of industrial development
Paul Valéry
Saint-Simon
Goldhagen Thesis
Stalin's rise
44. This was the war between France and Spain in order to unite the two states under one ruler - Phillip V
Stadholder
'White' forces
War of Spanish Succession
Rabelais
45. 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.
Grigori Rasputin
Robert Clive
Lateran Agreement
Institutes of the Christian Religion
46. German chancellor who hoped for WWI to happen - but without Britain
Reasons for and against Italian unity
July Diplomacy - the Blank Check
'New Imperialism'
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
47. This was the new style of literature that focused on the daily lives and adventures of a common person. This style was a response to Romanticism's supernaturalism and over-emphasis on emotion
Dawes Plan
Meiji Restoration of 1867
Realism
William Wordsworth
48. The love of my life. Said that there were three points were man was stripped of his specialness. Copernicus said that man was not center of universe; Darwin said that man is not God's special creation; and Freud said that man is savage. Freud said th
Battle of the Somme
Sigmund Freud
Functionalism
Cottage industry
49. A night of violence and vandalism against Jews
'Effective Occupation'
Shakespeare
Regulatory Legislation (Factory - Mines & 10 Hours Acts)
Kristallnacht
50. This was a legislative parliament in Russia with real political power
Duma
Savonarola
Matthew Perry
Henri-Philippe Pétain