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AP European History

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






2. A secret agreement between the Germans and the Russians that said that they would not attack each other






3. 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.






4. This humanism philosophy interpreted Italian ideas about and attitudes toward classical antiquity - individualism - and humanism in terms of their own traditions






5. This was the group of people in the National Assembly that met to discuss the political questions of the day






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






7. A French painter who used a impressionism called 'super-realism -' capture overall impression of the thing they were painting






8. Felt that Aryan white people were most superior - Scandinavian were 2nd best - French were 3rd - and the slavs - jews - and pretty much the rest were the worst






9. This was a policy of discriminatory laws designed to keep Asians out of countries






10. These were the types of buildings designed by Charles Fourier for a utopian society






11. This was the French supporter of Metternich's balance of power idea






12. 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.






13. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag






14. This was the pope that granted power to Ferdinand and Isabella to appoint bishops to the Spanish territories and also settled the argument between Spain and Portugal over South America






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






16. 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






17. Document that announced the withdrawal of Russia from WWI






18. This was the new constitution that the National Assembly wrote that gave all citizens free expression of thoughts and opinions and guaranteed equality before the law






19. 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






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






21. This is the passage that many European explorers attempted but never succeeded to navigate to reach other nations more quickly






22. This was the theory that two opposing classes have always battled against eachother to form another class that will battle against its antithesis until the synthesis is one equal class working with each other for each other






23. 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






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. German chancellor who hoped for WWI to happen - but without Britain






28. This man promoted the idea of sterilizing medical equipment before operating






29. This was the czar of Russia that Westernized Russia and built up a massive Russian army. He also was interested in building grand cities like those in Western Europe






30. This was the bill passed that those who did not receive the Eucharist of the Anglican Church had little rights






31. This stated that local government had some power - but that ultimate power rested in the hands of Bismarck and William






32. The three countries of Italy - Germany - and Japan allied together






33. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy






34. A 'super patriot' of Italy - he helped unify southern Italy with the help of his Red Shirts






35. 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






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






37. This man developed the first cohesive theory of evolution after his studies of biology






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






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






40. The movie that dictates the life and failure of Hitler






41. The old leader of Austria in the years before WWI






42. 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






43. This was the work that suggested that socialists should combine with other progressive forces to win gradual evolutionary gains for workers through legislation - unions - and further economic development






44. This was a Romantic writer who wrote prose and poetry






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






46. This was the work by John Calvin that described to the world the ideology of John Calvin






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






48. This granted full civil rights to people and opened up the Duma






49. Leader of English Romanticism who published works in the countryside






50. German Political mastermind who spearheaded Prussian expansion