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AP European History

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1. 1/3 of European migrants came from British Isles; less that ½ went to the US; most often a small peasant landowner/village craftsman; left because they were threatened by industrialization; many returned to their homelands






2. Austrian born Dictator of Germany - implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.






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






4. This was the meeting between the Quadruple Alliance in order to formulate a peace agreement and to balance the victories of the Napoleonic wars






5. This was the alliance between Austria Prussia and Russia on the crusade against the ideas and politics of the dual revolution.






6. Decisive battle in German invasion of Russia - the Germans were surrounded and systemically destroyed






7. This was the French king who reached an agreement with Pope Leo X and allowed the French king to select French bishops and abbots






8. This man was a Romantic painter






9. During his short reign of England - Protestant ideas exerted a significant influence on the religious life of the country






10. A period of reform for china in the attempt to meet the foreign challenge

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






12. He wanted to declare the superiority of Aryan race - create more living space for them - and make himself eternal supreme dictator for life

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13. 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.






14. Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church






15. Britain gained this territory by slowly asserting influence and putting people in charge






16. Traditional form of antidemocratic government






17. 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.'






18. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy






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






20. A treaty with Britain and China that gave Hong Kong to Britain and opened 4 cities for trade






21. The Enlightenment thinkers used reason to deduct conclusions about everyday life






22. This is the oath that the representatives of the third estate took when they swore that they would never disband until they had proper representation






23. This was given to Austria form Germany that guaranteed full military backing in any war






24. This battle was a French/British victory - because they stopped the German offensive






25. This was the physicist who said nothing can be known beyond all doubt






26. A king and leader of Prussia who was unable to unify Germany 'from above -' he was replaced by William I






27. This was the work that started the tabula rasa theory where the human mind is blank until it is filled with experiences that allow a person to think differently






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. This was the scientist who began to study anatomy in depth. He is referred as the father of anatomy






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






33. This was a short ottoman parliament designed to model the western model of an empire






34. A Polish physicist who - with French husband Pierre - discovered radium emits subatomic particles






35. Made friends with Italy - did stuff behind the table with Russia - and hated everyone else.

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36. This was the system set up by the Quadruple Alliance to meet periodically to talk about common issues






37. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun - leading it during its successful counter-strokes against the Germans - but was accused of wasting French lives during some of his attacks. He became Commander-in-Chief






38. Replaces the Provisional Government with Lenin's forces






39. French offensive that resulted in an almost mutiny by the French military

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






41. The strip of Poland that the Germans wanted to take - specifically Danzig






42. This was a replacement of the Japanese government with the emperor - done so by samurai






43. The French alliance between the smaller countries of Poland - Hungary - and Czechoslovakia.






44. This was the revolt that occurred in Germany where the peasants rebelled alongside the new Protestant thought. They were viciously quashed and the public appeal to the Reformation went substantially down

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45. The Germans needed a way to make the Austrians on their side - and they had the superior army. The Germans won - and were able to make sure that Austria stayed out of German affairs






46. Composer of opera Wozzeck - atonal music with half spoken - half sung dialogue - violence and expression






47. This man said that population would always grow faster than the food supply and the only hope of warding o war - famine - and disease was that young men and women had to limit the growth of population by marrying late






48. 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






49. A movement to create a nation state of Slavic people






50. This work of art shows the insignificance of the human and the supremacy of nature