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AP European History
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1. The idea that Britain could pacify Germany and make sure there was no war at any cost.
Ricardo (Iron Law of Wages)
Appeasement
Cottage industry
Prince Henry the Navigator
2. People justified imperialism by the concept of 'white man's burden -' which stated that European should govern other because it was right and better for the people
Paul von Hindenburg
Marie Curie
Justifications for Imperialism
Favorable balance of trade
3. This was the first publication of different essays about the culture and society of France which was put on the Index of Forbidden Books because it dealt with controversial issues
Encyclopedia
Combination Acts
Robert Owen
1859 Garibaldi's invasion
4. This man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government
1859 Garibaldi's invasion
Elie Halévy
Sun Yatsen
Adolf Hitler
5. Germany had to pay billions of dollars in war reperations
Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)
Reparations
Kepler
Leon Blum
6. This was the queen who reverted back to Catholicism in England for five years and during this reign - she executed many Protestants
Cardinal Mazarin
Edward Bernstein
Mary I
Revisionism
7. This was the way that the English landowners would now organize their land so that the farmers would become more productive in their work
Women's March on Versailles
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Course of WWII
Enclosure movement
8. This event occurred when both Britain and France wanted the town of Fashoda; in the end - the British gained control of the town - because the French gave up
Robert Nievelle
Working class leisure
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
The Courtier
9. German physicist who proved that subatomic energy was emitted from particles - he called them 'quanta'
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French educational reforms
Wealth of Nations
Max Planck
10. This American naval officer was the driving factor in Japan's opening by using gunboat diplomacy
Matthew Perry
Adolphe Thiers
Glorious Revolution
Lajos Kossuth
11. One of the leaders of The Mountain
Mein Kampf
Guelph
Danton
El Alamein
12. Dictator of Russia - named man of steel. Was of lowly backgrounds but rose to power. Only in it for himself. Created 5 year plans.
Ulrich Zwingli
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
Charles II
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
13. This was the harsh and violent conversion of Spain back into Catholicism. They used several versions of torture and fear tactics to convert people back to Catholicism
Raymond Poincaré
Gallipoli
Antonio de Oliveira Salzar
Spanish Inquisition
14. The philosophy of the liberal arts that emphasized human beings and their achievements
Popular Front
Henry Bessemer
Humanism
Working class leisure
15. This was the ruler of the Habsburgs that controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom
Progress of the War
Heinrich Brüning
Joseph II
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
16. This was a man who helped Ignatius of Loyola to start the Jesuits. He also was famous for his number of missionaries he went on to promote Christianity
Henry Labouchière
Francis Xavier
Leon Blum
Proletariat
17. German Jewish Politician who advocated the policy of Zionism and the creation of a nation state for all Jewish people.
Theodor Herzl
'Crown from the gutter'
Grigori Rasputin
Sergei Kirov
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
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
Elizabeth I
Grigori Rasputin
Descartes
19. This man promoted the idea of sterilizing medical equipment before operating
Joseph Lister
Sale of Indulgences
Thirty Years' War
Alexander III
20. This was the political idea in which the government did not intervene in the economy and liberty and equality were stressed
William Wordsworth
Ferdinand and Isabella
Protestantism
Liberalism (Classical Liberalism)
21. These people were the king and queen of England after the Glorious Revolution that recognized the supremacy of the English Parliament
Iwo Jima
William and Mary
Douglas Haig
William I
22. These were the French Calvinists that were often persecuted until the Edict of Nantes
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
Ukrainian Famine
Huguenots
Final Solution / Holocaust
23. When France occupied the Ruhr coal fields to demand that the German pay their reparations
Georges Haussmann
Ruhr Crisis 1923
Louis Pasteur
Hitler's Rise
24. When the German economy tried to print bills to pay off their debt - inflation rates of 40% a day
Zemstvo
Martin Luther
Hyperinflation
Oedipal Complex
25. The main leader of The Mountain and the man who ruled France after the First Revolution
Social Darwinism
Robespierre
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
James II
26. The twisted social idea that used the theory of evolution and applied to people
Anton Denikin
Social Darwinism
Gabriel Marcel
Phalansteries
27. This was the name of the military dictatorship that England took on during the reign of Oliver Cromwell
Innovations in weaponry
William II
The Protectorate
El Alamein
28. This was the Holy Roman Emperor that called for the Diet of Worms. He was a supporter of Catholicism and tried to crush the Reformation by use of the Counter-Reformation
Structure of German government
Giotto
Valois
Charles V
29. This was the treaty that was reached that ended the Habsburg-Valois Wars which also made Charles V recognize Lutheranism as a legitimate following
Stalingrad
Soviet quality of life
'Socialism in one country'
Peace of Augsburg
30. A treatise that sought to train - discipline - and fashion the young man into the courtly ideal - the gentleman
Protestantism
Uncertainty Principle
The Courtier
Vespucci
31. This was when the French left - and the British moved in and invaded and captured Egypt
Proletariat
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Elizabeth I
Line of Demarcation
32. France's first elected president by universal male suffrage - and developed strong nationalism like his cousin
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
The Little Entente
Humanism
Francis I
33. Last tsar of Russia - he went to the frontlines in WWI to try to rally the troops - but was forced to abdicate after his wife made horrible decisions under the influence of Rasputin.
Walter Scott
Petrograd Soviet
Leopold II
Nicholas II
34. These revolutions occurred in 1)France - because of the depression and rising unemployment rates caused starvation in France in which they then overthrew the bourgeois monarchy 2)Austria - because the Hungarians rebelled against the Austrian Empire a
Joseph Conrad
Quadruple Alliance
Revolutions of 1848
The Decameron
35. A Spanish artist - founder of Cubism - which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes
Proletariat
Pablo Picasso
Joseph II
Existentialism
36. Served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He founded and led the Estado Novo ('New State') - the authoritarian - right-wing government that presided over and controlled Portugal from 1932 to 1974.
Duma
Combination Acts
Antonio de Oliveira Salzar
Erasmus
37. This was the man who influenced the power of King Louis XIII the most and tried to make France an absolute monarchy
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Rosa Luxembourg
Russian Modernization
Cardinal Richelieu
38. Suffrage was extended to more middle class men in Britain so that they conservatives would get a stronger base
'Total war' & measures to prosecute it
Extension of suffrage in Britain
Modernization
The Prince
39. They fell behind in industrialization - in education - and in general compared to the west
Henrí Matisse
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Peace of Westphalia
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
40. Man who created the printing press and changed the production and reading of books
Walter Scott
Evolutionary Socialism
Glorious Revolution
Johann Gutenberg
41. One of the first and best Renaissance sculptors. He was also one of the first artists to sell his works
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Fascism
Donatello
Fourteen Points
42. This was the man who began studying fermentation to develop a way to avoid spoilage through pasteurization by heating the beverage
Mussolini's Rise - role of Black Shirts
Qing Dynasty
Louis Pasteur
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
43. The American plan to loan money to Germany - who would pay their reparations to France and Britain - who would pay back their debt to America - which created a win-win for everyone - and made they people happy and thought that peace was possible
Dawes Plan
October Manifesto
Phalansteries
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
44. They were given more rights and had complete equality of rights
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
Women in totalitarian states
Zemstvo
Jean Bodin
45. President of the Weimar Republic of Germany who appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933
Ems Telegram
Raymond Poincaré
Paul von Hindenburg
Battle of Verdun
46. The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags
British-French Tensions
Effects of the Scientific Revolution
Kulaks
Zionism
47. This was the alliance between Great Britain - Austria - Russia - and Prussia after the Napoleonic era
Renaissance Popes
Quadruple Alliance
Ukrainian Famine
Mein Kampf
48. Made friends with Italy - did stuff behind the table with Russia - and hated everyone else.
49. These decrees limited the voting rights of the wealthy and censored the press
July Decrees
Boxer Rebellion
William Gladstone
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
50. This work of art shows the insignificance of the human and the supremacy of nature
Bacon
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Wilhelm II Mustafa Kemal
Henry IV of France