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AP European History

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1. This was another leader in the Reformation who believed in a simple faith and a simple method of worship






2. This German - along with his partner Ludendorff - essentially ran Germany during the end of the war






3. Germany had to pay billions of dollars in war reperations






4. War preparations were unstoppable because once you started to prepare - you knew that your enemies were doing the same - and you could not stop - because if you did - your enemies could attack you

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






6. This was the scientist who began to study anatomy in depth. He is referred as the father of anatomy






7. The two hundred year old Chinese dynast that was the last emperors of China






8. Suffrage was extended to more middle class men in Britain so that they conservatives would get a stronger base






9. This was an English feminist who supported the women's revolution in France






10. Russia's last tsar - he witnessed the fall of Russia from great power - to the entering into WWI and total collapse






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






12. This was an artist who led the way for Renaissance masters from his David sculpture and his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling






13. A failed British offensive in Ottoman empire






14. 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






15. A telegram which the French gave to the Germans in anger over the Succession of the Throne in Spain - but the Germans altered it to look like the French were rude and evil. The French declared war.






16. The big 4 were US - Britain - France and Italy

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17. A work that portrays an acquisitive - sensual - and worldly society through descriptions of merchants - friars - and husbands






18. This thinker developed a philosophy of two different worlds a material world and a world of the mind. This was called Cartesian dualism. He combined his ideas with Bacon to form the scientific method






19. Bolshevik revolutionary and political and intellectual thinker for Stalin. Supported the NEP






20. This was the physicist who said nothing can be known beyond all doubt






21. Social Impact was impact on social class structures and breakdown of aristocracy and other inter class structures. After the war more people did not have servants. The Psycho impact was that people viewed humanity as both savage and pointless - becau






22. This was a movement to create a Serbian state and break from Austria Hungary






23. They were given more rights and had complete equality of rights






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






25. This was the equivalent of a king in Egypt






26. This war was began as a follow-up of the War of Austrian Succession when Prussia invaded Austria

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27. This man believed that each age is characterized by a dominant set of ideas - which produces opposing ideas and a new synthesis






28. This man was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in India






29. 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






30. A period of reform for china in the attempt to meet the foreign challenge

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31. This man believed that the moral worth of an action is determined by its contribution to happiness as summed among all persons






32. Was a British soldier and senior commander (field marshal) during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War. Most notably he was commander during the Battle of the Somme - the 3rd Battle of Ypres






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






34. This man urged people to agitate for universal voting rights and to take control of the state peacefully






35. This was the name that England took on after the civil war and the kingship was abolished






36. A German customs union founded to increase trade and stimulate revenues of its members






37. This French king appointed Cardinal Richelieu






38. Hitler's book in which he outlined his ideas on race - living space - and the Fuhrer






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






40. The most of these were economical and not political - and even then were mostly only halfway efforts






41. 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.






42. A form of Protestantism in which the believers were pacifists and would shake at the power of the word of the Lord






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






44. The Enlightenment thinkers used reason to deduct conclusions about everyday life






45. 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






46. Decisive battle in German invasion of Russia - the Germans were surrounded and systemically destroyed






47. This was one of the reforms in England in which the leaders wanted all Catholic elements in the Church of England eliminated






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






49. Young rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform






50. The so called 'father of the Turks -' he founded what is now known as Turkey and defended against British attack