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AP European History
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1. 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
Descartes
Stadholder
'Blood and Iron'
Pope Paul III
2. This act made it illegal to meet with a group of more than fifty people
Cardinal Mazarin
Comintern
Seditious Meetings Act
Estates-General
3. Member of the Liberal party in Great Britain who helped raise taxes on the rich - and reform in general
Francois Guizot
North German Confederation Constitution
David Lloyd George
Army Order Number 1
4. These were the two sides of the English civil war. The Roundheads were the Puritan supporters of the Parliament and the Cavaliers were the supporters of Charles I
Roundheads and Cavaliers
Georg Hegel
Franz von Papen
Doge
5. French poet and critic that spoke of a 'crisis of the mind -' and 'a dark future for Europe'
Guelph
Peasants' War
National self-determination
Paul Valéry
6. One of the leaders of The Mountain
Hitler's goals
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
Danton
Stream-of-Consciousness
7. The reason behind the war was because a war would bring the Southern German states into the Prussian state - and the French wanted to teach Germany a lesson. It ended up that the Germans kicked butt - and the French were humiliated - and the German p
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
Franco-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
Joseph Lister
Conservative Authoritarianism
8. An artist who led the way into realism; his treatment of the human body and face replaced the formal stiffness and artificiality that had long characterized the representation of the human body
Corn Laws
Charles Darwin
Giotto
Munich Conference
9. 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
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
Nicholas II
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
Syllabus of Errors
10. These were the French philosophers
Commercial revolution
'Separation of powers'
Swallows / Repatriation
Philosophes
11. The Japanese had a war with China and ended up gaining Korea - which they opened to trade; Japan became an imperialist power
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12. This was the treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession
Alfred Dreyfus
Peace of Utrecht
Theodor Herzl
Totalitarianism
13. This was the list of books that were prohibited by the papacy in order to stop more religious thinkers
Index of Prohibited Literature
Iwo Jima
Modern liberalism
Jacobins
14. This was another leader in the Reformation who believed in a simple faith and a simple method of worship
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
John Calvin
Labor-Liberal-Conservative Cooperation in Britain
Dawes Plan
15. This English poet joined the Greeks and died fighting so that they may be free
Progress of the War
Sergei Witte
Realism
Lord Byron
16. Was an Austrian philosopher and a logical empiricist who argued in Essay on Logical Philosophy that great philosophical questions like god freedom and morality were 'quite literally senseless.'
'Spanish Armada'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Importance of Germany's campaign through Belgium
Cottage industry
17. This treaty ended the Seven Years' War
Karl Lueger
The Commonwealth of England
Gallipoli
Treaty of Paris (1763)
18. An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel - or impression - of the piece they were drawing
Impressionism
'New Imperialism'
Louis XIII
Urban living conditions
19. Fascist leader of the Spanish revolution - helped by Hitler and Mussolini
Austro-Sardinian War
Francisco Franco
Test Act of 1673
Victor Emmanuel III
20. This work advocated economic and moral freedom of individuals from the state. This work is enormously influential to politics today
Paul Valéry
Saint-Simon
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
Jesuits
21. This was the man who created the spinning jenny which began the actual Industrial Revolution and the beginning of machines doing a man's work
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
James Hargreaves
Peter the Great
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
22. This was the battle that Napoleon lost after his return from Elba that ended his reign as French ruler
Bacon
Battle of Waterloo
Uncertainty Principle
Qing Dynasty
23. 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
Realism
Vincenzo Gioberti
Mussolini's Rise - role of Black Shirts
Russo-Japanese War
24. A work that portrays an acquisitive - sensual - and worldly society through descriptions of merchants - friars - and husbands
James Joyce
Fourteen Points
The Decameron
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
25. 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
El Cid
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Holy Alliance
26. Unsuccessful uprising of sailors - soldiers - and civilians against Russian government (against Bolsheviks)
Peace of Augsburg
Methodism
Boyle
Kronstadt Rebels
27. Dictator of Russia - named man of steel. Was of lowly backgrounds but rose to power. Only in it for himself. Created 5 year plans.
Fascism
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
Modern imperialism
28. One of the costliest battles in WWI - was mainly useless and just people died
Methodism
Sale of Indulgences
Battle of Verdun
Development of Anglo-German rivalry & Naval arms race
29. This was the scientist who published the theory of evolution after his travels to the Galapagos Islands
James Hargreaves
Reparations
Charles Darwin
Henri Bergson
30. This was the group of people called by Louis XVI that would keep the king in check like the English Parliament
'Spanish Armada'
Da Vinci
Estates-General
Alexander III
31. German Jewish Politician who advocated the policy of Zionism and the creation of a nation state for all Jewish people.
Theodor Herzl
Peace of Utrecht
Reparations
Boyle
32. 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
Thirty Years' War
Rhineland remilitarization
Harvey
Theory of Class Struggle
33. This man believed that each age is characterized by a dominant set of ideas - which produces opposing ideas and a new synthesis
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Georg Hegel
Bauhaus
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
34. An artistic movement that expressed world that could not normally be seen - like dreams and fantasy.
Post-Impressionism
Tennis Court Oath
'White' forces
British-French Tensions
35. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
Women in totalitarian states
Theory of Evolution
Paris Reconstruction
Henry IV of France
36. This was the civil code put out by Napoleon that granted equality of all male citizens before the law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property. Napoleon also secured this by creating the Bank of France which loyally served the int
Pope Paul III
Napoleonic Code
German 1918 Offensive
Paul von Hindenburg
37. This was the working class in that was constantly battling against the bourgeois factory owners
Proletariat
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Alfred Dreyfus
Brunelleschi
38. An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors - lines and shapes.
Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)
Abstract-Expressionism
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
Index of Prohibited Literature
39. This was what the early German Romantics called themselves
Henry Bessemer
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Edward VI
Sturm und Drang
40. This was the man who began studying fermentation to develop a way to avoid spoilage through pasteurization by heating the beverage
Methodism
Louis Pasteur
Robert Owen
Walther Rathenau
41. This was the Scottish royal family that ruled England after Elizabeth I
Francisco Franco
The Stuarts
Appeasement
Second International
42. This man wrote Heart of Darkness - where he criticized the Europeans in their civilizing
Joseph Conrad
Francois Guizot
Reign of Terror
Treaty of Versailles terms
43. An occurrence in Russia that lead to the increase of its stature in world power standings and revitalized the economy and industry
Role of reason
Uncertainty Principle
Modernization
Nuremburg Laws
44. 1) The economic and financial crisis that led to the calling of the Estates General. 2) The political incompetence of Louis XV and XVI. 3) The unfair taxation between the three estates
Zemstvo
Causes of the French Revolution
Physiocrats
'Liberty - Equality - Fraternity'
45. 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
Giuseppe Mazzini
Magyar policies
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Regulatory Legislation (Factory - Mines & 10 Hours Acts)
46. He was chief of the general staff during WWI for the Germans
William I
Erich von Falkenhayn
Khedive
Hitler's Popularity - how popular - why
47. A French philosophy professor who said that personal experiences and intuition were more important than rational thought and thinking
Anti-Semitism
One man - one plan - one mustache
Henri Bergson
House of Orange
48. This humanism philosophy interpreted Italian ideas about and attitudes toward classical antiquity - individualism - and humanism in terms of their own traditions
Moroccan Crisis & Algeciras Conference 1906
The Stuarts
Northern Humanism
'Blood and Iron'
49. The trench was dirty - wet - smelly - and full of death - and you waited to die at any moment
Commercial revolution
Problems of trench life
Edwin Chadwick
Nazi racial theories
50. An important invasion that lead to the removal of Mussolini from government - only to have him put back later
Savonarola
Oedipal Complex
Puritan
Sicily