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AP European History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing






2. This was the revolution as a result of whether the sovereignty would remain with the king or with the Parliament. Eventually - the kingship was abolished






3. The artist shows the ideal for female beauty in the Renaissance in this work slender - pale skin - a high forehead - red-blond hair - and sloping shoulders






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

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5. This was the harsh and violent conversion of Spain back into Catholicism. They used several versions of torture and fear tactics to convert people back to Catholicism






6. 1) The economic and financial crisis that led to the calling of the Estates General. 2) The political incompetence of Louis XV and XVI. 3) The unfair taxation between the three estates






7. These were Mussolini's bullies who pushed socialist out of Northern Italy

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8. These terms said that Germany had to pay money - that Germany had to give up land - and that Germany had to keep its army size down






9. Sardinia's monarch who helped unite Italy






10. The three party system that makes sure that both the conservative and the labor party don't get too radical.






11. The reason behind the war was because a war would bring the Southern German states into the Prussian state - and the French wanted to teach Germany a lesson. It ended up that the Germans kicked butt - and the French were humiliated - and the German p






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

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13. He was an architect who designed a hospital for orphans and foundlings set up by the silk-workers guild in Florence






14. This dealt with skepticism - the government - and the role of reason in everyday life






15. This was act in which any people unlawfully detained could be prosecuted






16. 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






17. Deputy to Hitler in the Nazi party person who dictated Mein Kampf






18. A Russian Tsar who implemented rapid social change and general modernization of Russia.






19. Zeppelins - airplanes - gas - machine guns - tanks - These things were new ideas that really did not work very well






20. These were people who migrated to new lands - but then came back to either farm - or to stay






21. The opposition to the Bolsheviks and the Red army after the October rebellion and the Russian Revolution

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22. 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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23. A Freudian physiological idea that if you did not get over loving your parent of the opposite sex - you would have this complex where you hated your other parent and have issues with parental relations.






24. A desire for success abroad lead to this. It was a short war against Denmark to gain these providences






25. This was the man who first theorized that the celestial bodies all revolved around a fixed sun






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






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






28. This man said that population would always grow faster than the food supply and the only hope of warding o war - famine - and disease was that young men and women had to limit the growth of population by marrying late






29. A treatise that sought to train - discipline - and fashion the young man into the courtly ideal - the gentleman






30. This man was a writer who would plea for simple Christian faith and would criticize the complexity of Catholic faith






31. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag






32. This war was the beginning of the end of Napoleon's Grand Empire after the Spanish rebelled against France for its independence






33. French poet and critic that spoke of a 'crisis of the mind -' and 'a dark future for Europe'






34. This was the treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession






35. 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






36. This was the most famous and one of the first concrete reformer who began to reject some of the more obscure and selfish laws of the Catholic Church






37. This man stated that because of population growth - the wages would always sink to subsistence level






38. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and foremost general for the White Russians in the Russian civil war.






39. This was the pope that used the sale of indulgences to rebuild a basilica and he was also the pope who challenged Martin Luther






40. The small government in Paris who wanted to resist the conservative leaders of France and tried to form their own government






41. This was the way that many people were granted salvation. This was a common method of the church to gain power and money






42. The common crime of paying for holy offices for the position of power






43. This was the way form of work of the rural classes in which the costumer would give the worker materials and the worker would create the desirable product






44. This was a short ottoman parliament designed to model the western model of an empire






45. The western front became stalemated because it was full of trench warfare and needless death






46. France's first elected president by universal male suffrage - and developed strong nationalism like his cousin






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






48. He wanted to declare the superiority of Aryan race - create more living space for them - and make himself eternal supreme dictator for life

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49. A Political opponent of Stalin's who was executed for being more popular that Stalin






50. This was the group that gave work to the unemployed