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AP European History

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1. French offensive that resulted in an almost mutiny by the French military

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2. When Germany moved into the Rhineland and beefed up the military - Britain and France still wanted appeasement and did nothing






3. This was the first man to isolate a bacterium and a virus and as a result h could create new vaccines for the disease






4. The British had a war with the Chinese to make sure they could sell their opium to china






5. This was the political idea in which the government did not intervene in the economy and liberty and equality were stressed






6. One of the costliest battles in WWI - was mainly useless and just people died






7. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun - leading it during its successful counter-strokes against the Germans - but was accused of wasting French lives during some of his attacks. He became Commander-in-Chief






8. Hitler used this to launch his dictatorship and used this to give him power. It was a fire of a capital building






9. A 'super patriot' of Italy - he helped unify southern Italy with the help of his Red Shirts






10. The strip of Poland that the Germans wanted to take - specifically Danzig






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






12. An agreement/conference that gave Germany the Sudetenland






13. 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






14. This was the man who first said that the Americas were completely separate from Asia - thus the continent was named after him






15. 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






16. These were the French workers' revolts in 1848 after the closure of the National Workshops






17. French Prime Minister who moved and occupied into the Ruhr to collect war reparations






18. Mayor of Vienna whom Hitler idolized






19. The acceptance of Stalin though propaganda






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






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






22. This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical - the planets do not orbit at a constant speed - and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun






23. This was the theory that two opposing classes have always battled against eachother to form another class that will battle against its antithesis until the synthesis is one equal class working with each other for each other






24. Freud said that there was conscious - which you could control - and the subconscious. He said that the Id was living in the subconscious was just had primordial desires that wanted stuff like food and sex. Then there was the Superego that did not wan






25. The pact was an agreement to define the border between France and Germany - and in which Britain and Italy would gang up on the aggressor if the treaty was broken. The spirit was this feeling that war could be stopped again by peace talks that settle






26. A work that presents a revolutionary view of society and describes an ideal socialistic community on an island somewhere off the mainland of the New World. He created the name utopia as a good place which is no place






27. This was what the early German Romantics called themselves






28. This was the queen of Austria as a result of the Pragmatic Sanction. She limited the papacy's political influence in Austria - strengthened her central bureaucracy and cautiously reduced the power that nobles had over their serfs






29. This was the list of books that were prohibited by the papacy in order to stop more religious thinkers






30. Cavour's plan was to first modernize the econ - and model it off of Britain - then modernize the military - with lots of railroads to move the troops around to country

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31. The old Tsarist secret police






32. This socialist man believed that property is theft






33. Khedive of Egypt - he was a westernizing autocrat and grandson of the first leader






34. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the pope






35. This was the man who influenced the power of King Louis XIII the most and tried to make France an absolute monarchy






36. The working class still enjoyed drinking - although it was discouraged - they started to enjoy sports and music halls - although blood sports declined






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






38. American president at the time of WWI who came up with 14 points






39. An armed uprising in Munich of maybe 50 people at most - crushed - Hitler's idea






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






41. German Political mastermind who spearheaded Prussian expansion






42. The immediate cause was the American using margin buying to buy shares of stock that they could not pay back - and forced a mass selloff of shares - which collapsed the stock market and the economy. The efforts to deal was the New Deal in America - a






43. 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






44. This act made it illegal to meet with a group of more than fifty people






45. This was the ideology that most states used to gain the most money from their exports by increasing the amount of finished materials while decreasing the amount of raw materials






46. This was the line drawn by Alexander VI that gave Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America






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






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






49. Great British prime minister who advocated peace and a policy of appeasement






50. This was the queen who reverted back to Catholicism in England for five years and during this reign - she executed many Protestants