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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
Alexandra
Dreyfus Affair
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Treaty of Versailles terms
3. This was the motto of the age of exploration. The explorers were looking for money - glory - or to convert non-Christians
Gold Glory and God
Giuseppe Mazzini
Philosophes
Predestination
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
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lusitania and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Varieties of Socialism
Oedipal Complex
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
Antonio de Oliveira Salzar
Diaz
William I
John A. Hobson
6. A Siberian preacher who became friends of the Tsars - but hated by the public - twisted and cheated and exploited Alexandra.
Grigori Rasputin
Meeting at Marburg
Dreyfus Affair
Giuseppe Mazzini
7. This man was a poet - playwright and novelist and wrote one of the best known novels ever (Don Quixote)
Malthus (On Population)
Donatello
Cervantes
Paul von Hindenburg
8. One of the members of the banker family of Florence that ruled behind the scenes of the government
Congo exploitation
Anton Denikin
Cosmo deMedici
Rudolf Hess
9. This British foreign minister was a supporter of Metternich
Robert Castlereagh
A-bombs - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
Maria Theresa
Galileo
10. Gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years
Enabling Act
Sale of Indulgences
Ulrich Zwingli
Theory of Evolution
11. A Dutch expressionist who painted a 'moving visions in his mind's eye'
Glorious Revolution
Kepler
Vincent Van Gogh
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
12. The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags
Kulaks
'The White Man's Burden'
Proletariat
Deism
13. Sardinia's monarch who helped unite Italy
Masaccio
Kepler
Great Rebellion (Indian Mutiny)
Victor Emmanuel
14. Member of the Liberal party in Great Britain who helped raise taxes on the rich - and reform in general
Salons
Heinrich Himmler
Cabral
David Lloyd George
15. Austria invades Italy and the French come in to help the Italians. The Italians and the French are very successful and gain Lombardy.
Gabriel Marcel
Austro-Sardinian War
Thomas Hobbes
Nuremburg Laws
16. An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images
Nazi racial theories
Theory of Class Struggle
Surrealism
Soviet quality of life
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.
Radical Dictatorships
Battle of Tannenberg
Jean Paul Sartre
Nazi racial theories
18. This was the French supporter of Metternich's balance of power idea
Matthew Perry
Josef Pilsudaski
Charles Talleyrand
Joseph Goebbels
19. This man wrote Heart of Darkness - where he criticized the Europeans in their civilizing
Joseph Conrad
Karl Lueger
Social Democrats
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
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
Werner Heisenberg
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
Georges Sorel
El Alamein
21. Was a Hungarian Communist politician who ruled Hungary as leader of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919
Thirty Years' War
Béla Kun
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nikolai Bukharin
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.
Walter Scott
Karl Barth
Jacobins
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
23. This Romantic work shows a crew shipwrecked
Kristallnacht
Dawes Plan
Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
Commercial revolution
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
Troppau Conference
Great White Walls
Francisco Franco
China's Hundred Days of Reform
25. Was a pact that said that just said was bad - but did not outline any method for preventing war.
D-Day
Line of Demarcation
Rhineland remilitarization
Kellogg-Briand Pact
26. A mass flee of British troops of the coast of France - disaster - lost thousands of machines and vehicles
Kellogg-Briand Pact
19th century class structure
Dunkirk
Goldhagen Thesis
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
Causes of the French Revolution
Frederick the Great
Hus
Columbus
28. This was the group that carried out the Reign of Terror
Great White Walls
Committee of Public Safety
Louis XVIII
Goldhagen Thesis
29. Bolshevik revolutionary and political and intellectual thinker for Stalin. Supported the NEP
Labor aristocracy
Collectivization
Nikolai Bukharin
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
30. This was the group of people in the National Assembly that met to discuss the political questions of the day
Rudyard Kipling
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Greek revolution
Jacobins
31. This work advocated economic and moral freedom of individuals from the state. This work is enormously influential to politics today
Reasons for and against Italian unity
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
Benjamin Disraeli
Danton
32. The so called 'father of the Turks -' he founded what is now known as Turkey and defended against British attack
Wilhelm II Mustafa Kemal
Heinrich Brüning
Georges Sorel
Ismail Ali
33. This was the man who starting absolutism in Prussia by uniting the three provinces of Prussia under one ruler.
Girondists
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
Franz Joseph
Louis Napoleon's rise & ideas on gov't
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
Albert Einstein
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
Founding of the British empire in India
Protestantism
36. This was the style of capitalism in which the government had no interference with the economy
Laissez-faire capitalism
John A. Hobson
Greek revolution
Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
37. This was the king who issued the Edict of Nantes
Leon Gambetta
Paul Gaugin
Henry IV of France
Neville Chamberlain
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
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Georges Clemenceau
Quadruple Alliance
Charles II
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
Abstract-Expressionism
Nikolai Bukharin
Ukrainian Famine
James Hargreaves
41. This was the working class in that was constantly battling against the bourgeois factory owners
Marie Curie
Miasma Theory / Germ Theory
Proletariat
Savonarola
42. This was a German dynasty that often had conflicts with the Habsburgs that often involved other countries and papal troops
Alfred Dreyfus
Kulturkampf
Valois
Hitler's Rise
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.
Why war preparations were 'unstoppable'
Oswald Spengler
Paul Valéry
Serbian nationalist movement
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
Hitler's Popularity - how popular - why
Humanism
Labor aristocracy
Edward Bernstein
46. This was the man who was hired by Archbishop Albert of Mainz to sell indulgences - which he did extremely successfully
Karl Lueger
Effects of the Scientific Revolution
Johann Tetzel
Elizabeth I
47. This was the group of people called by Louis XVI that would keep the king in check like the English Parliament
James II
Reasons for and against Italian unity
Estates-General
Giuseppe Mazzini
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
Joseph Conrad
Existentialism
The Courtier
Munich Conference
49. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag
Elizabeth I
Surplus Value
Benito Mussolini
Hermann Göring
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
Alliances 1873-1914 & German isolation
Meiji Restoration of 1867
Whigs and Tories
Duma