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AP European History

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






2. Viennese founder of 12 tone music and turned back on conventional tones






3. A postimpressionist and expressionist who had a profound impact on 20th century art and committed to form






4. Leaders who violently rejected parliamentary restraint and liberal values - as well as exercised unprecedented control over masses and sought to mobilize them for war.






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






6. These acts all started to regulate and ameliorate the conditions of work in the factories and helped make the Industrial Revolution better and the living conditions in the urban areas better






7. A radical - authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of t






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






9. A member of British Parliament who mocked Rudyard Kipling's poem






10. 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






11. French revisionist socialist who repudiated revisionist doctrines to achieve a unified socialist state






12. The Dreyfus affair lead to the separation of church and state - and lead to more people in government backed schools that were no longer catholic schools but republican schools.






13. This was the political idea in which the people regarded tradition as the basic source of human institutions and the proper state and society remained those before the French Revolution which rested on a judicious blend on monarchy - bureaucracy - ar






14. This said that ordinary Germans not only knew about - but also supported - the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent 'eliminationist' anti-Semitism in the German identity - which had developed in the preceding centuries






15. The acceptance of Stalin though propaganda






16. This was a movement within Lutheranism that revived Protestantism that called for an emotional relationship - allowed for the priesthood of all believers - and the Christian rebirth in everyday affairs






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Unsuccessful uprising of sailors - soldiers - and civilians against Russian government (against Bolsheviks)






22. This was a pianist in the Romanticism era that was a star in his day






23. These laws forbade the importation of foreign grain without the prices in England rising substantially






24. Replaces the Provisional Government with Lenin's forces






25. These were the laws passed by the Parliament that prohibited the English people from forming a union






26. Leader of the French socialist party Popular Front - made first and real attempt to deal with the economic and social problems






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






28. Leader of the National Assembly in France - he ordered the Paris Commune to be crushed. He also declared the Third Republic of France - because it 'divided France the least'






29. The forceful union of Austria into Germany






30. Pioneered by the Curies - Plank and Einstein - a new view of physics that shattered the perfect world of Newtonian physics and made the world seem much more random and not as much certainty.






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






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






33. 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






34. This work advocated economic and moral freedom of individuals from the state. This work is enormously influential to politics today






35. Dictator of Russia - named man of steel. Was of lowly backgrounds but rose to power. Only in it for himself. Created 5 year plans.






36. Three reasons anarchy was about and any person could create power; the Bolsheviks had better leaders; the Bolsheviks appealed to many workers






37. Russia painter who 'turned away from nature' and focused on nonrepresentational - abstract art






38. 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






39. Europe mainly invested most of its money back into Europe - and then into the US






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






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






42. This man wrote Imperialism - a critique of imperalism






43. The man who began the humanism movement and he believed that he was living the start of new era






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






45. A failed British offensive in Ottoman empire






46. This was an event where Europe tried to claim Africa as quickly as it could






47. The idea that we do know no anything for certain and all we know is possibilities - probabilities - and tendencies. Put forth by German physicist Heisenberg.






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






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






50. This was the international war between the Protestants and Catholics that eventually ended religious conflicts in Europe

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