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AP European History

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1. These were Dutch settlers in south Africa






2. This was the way that many people were granted salvation. This was a common method of the church to gain power and money






3. This was the first explorer who rounded the southern tip of the Cape of Good Hope but was never able to go all the way around






4. This ship was sunk with Americans on it - and this action by the Germans was what ultimately caused the Americans to enter the war






5. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the pope






6. This was the massacre that occurred during the wedding of a Catholic and Huguenot that would resolve the conflict between the two conflicting parties

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7. Replaces the Provisional Government with Lenin's forces






8. 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.






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






10. The political idea that applied the total war concept on a civil conflict






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






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






13. This was the man who dominated the reform movement in Scotland. He established the Presbyterian Church of Scotland so that ministers ran the church - not bishops






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






15. This was a legislative parliament in Russia with real political power






16. British writer who wrote of 'the white man's burden' and justified imperialism






17. When the German economy tried to print bills to pay off their debt - inflation rates of 40% a day






18. German socialist revolutionary who was assassinated after the war






19. An important battle in the Asian part of the war - the Americans sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers






20. Hitler used this to launch his dictatorship and used this to give him power. It was a fire of a capital building






21. This was the famine that occurred in Ireland that killed of thousands of people because the main potato crop could not grow because of bad soil that year






22. This was the scientist who published the theory of evolution after his travels to the Galapagos Islands






23. This pianist was considered the master of Romanticism music






24. 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






25. This man was one of the early and influential socialist thinkers who proclaimed the tremendous possibilities of industrial development






26. An important canal to the British in Egypt






27. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the Holy Roman Empire






28. These were the major families in Europe that had the most power and control of the wealth in a state






29. One of the leaders of The Mountain






30. They had a strong top government and they had a Reichstag - or the lower house of parliament






31. The Scandinavian system of in the middle of socialism and capitalism - an ideology that you can have some of your own things and keep some of your money - and have higher tax rates.






32. An occurrence in Russia that lead to the increase of its stature in world power standings and revitalized the economy and industry






33. 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






34. German physicist who proved that subatomic energy was emitted from particles - he called them 'quanta'






35. This was the way that the English landowners would now organize their land so that the farmers would become more productive in their work






36. A Siberian preacher who became friends of the Tsars - but hated by the public - twisted and cheated and exploited Alexandra.






37. This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical - the planets do not orbit at a constant speed - and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun






38. A document by the pope in which he denounced rationalism - socialism - religious liberty - and separation of the church and state.






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






40. 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






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






42. This Romantic work shows a crew shipwrecked






43. A concept used to describe political systems whereby a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life. These regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda dis






44. 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






45. This was an influential French writer who wrote about naturalism and was often criticized






46. 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






47. The area near Czechoslovakia that was mainly German ethnicity that Germany took.






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






49. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag






50. He used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions