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AP European History

Subjects : history, ap
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. They had a strong top government and they had a Reichstag - or the lower house of parliament






2. British military commander who believed in expansion and founded the De Beers Mining Company






3. The acceptance of Stalin though propaganda






4. The philosophy of the liberal arts that emphasized human beings and their achievements






5. This was the union of skilled workers in the working classes that had a set behavioral code. They were usually run by construction bosses and factory foremen






6. This was the massacre that occurred during the wedding of a Catholic and Huguenot that would resolve the conflict between the two conflicting parties

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7. These were part of Wilson's plan to end WW1 conflict






8. The clergy made up a very small percentage but owned 10% of the land; the nobles made up another small percentage but also owned most of the land; and the rest of the people made up 97% of France and owned very little land






9. A railroad that went across Siberia






10. These were the angry old cottage industry workers who lost their jobs and costumers to machines and as a result - they began to secretly destroy the machines






11. This was the man who created the theory of sovereignty in which a state becomes sovereign by claiming a monopoly over the instruments of justice






12. This was the document published by Henry IV that granted liberty of conscience and liberty of public worship to the Huguenots






13. Opponent of Tsarist Russia - began to immerse himself in Marxian socialist ideas as a law student. He then went on to form the Bolsheviks - and tried to start a revolution in July 1917. It failed - he went into hiding - but regrouped in Petrograd - w






14. This is the value of the unpaid surplus labor performed by the worker for the capitalist for profit






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






16. This was the Spanish equivalent to the Knights of the Round Table






17. This was a insurrection of Muslim and Hindi army officers that spread through northern India before it was crushed. It was because of people trying to send out the white army officers






18. The German chancellor during the Weimar Republic who convinced the president to accept rule by decree






19. One of the leaders of The Mountain






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






21. A tough finance minister who thought that Russia's industrial backwardness was threatening Russia's power and greatness






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






23. This was the theory developed by Montesquieu that political power should not be divided and share by a variety of classes and legal estates holding unequal rights and privileges

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24. The ruler of Venice






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

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26. This was a way of thinking that God exists - but does not intervene in daily life - for he already has a plan for the universe that cannot be altered






27. Supporter of Lenin who helped in the takeover of Petrograd and the Bolshevik revolution






28. 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






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






30. Differences between French and British were over the treatment of the Germans - specifically on the payment of reparations






31. This was the man who started the Jesuit movement to help people to find God around the world






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






33. This was the man who planned the reconstruction of Paris






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






35. One of the best examples of a Renaissance man. He painted - wrote - sculpted - invented - among his philosophical ideas






36. This was the re-establishment of the monarchy in England under Charles II. Both houses of Parliament were restored but the religious tensions still were present in England






37. This was when the French left - and the British moved in and invaded and captured Egypt






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






39. A night of violence and vandalism against Jews






40. They fell behind in industrialization - in education - and in general compared to the west






41. He was a major French Renaissance writer - doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy and satire






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






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






44. 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






45. The Duke of Florence and the old ruler of the city-states of Italy






46. Pope who denounced unification and published the Syllabus of Errors






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






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






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






50. Their demand was universal male suffrage