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AP European History
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1. This was act in which any people unlawfully detained could be prosecuted
Habeas Corpus Act
Frederick William IV
Charles Darwin
Battle of Waterloo
2. The opposition to the Bolsheviks and the Red army after the October rebellion and the Russian Revolution
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3. This man stated that because of population growth - the wages would always sink to subsistence level
Guelph
Hitler's Rise
'Blood and Iron'
Ricardo (Iron Law of Wages)
4. French military leader who assumed control of France and lead it out of the war successfully
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Henri Pétain
Leon Gambetta
National self-determination
5. French revisionist socialist who repudiated revisionist doctrines to achieve a unified socialist state
Jean Jaures
Matthew Perry
Lusitania and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Stalinization of culture
6. The joining of Austria and Hungary under two different crowns
Syllabus of Errors
Dual Monarchy
Zollverein
Treaty of Nanking
7. Great British prime minister who advocated peace and a policy of appeasement
Lajos Kossuth
Alfred von Schlieffen
Gabriel Marcel
Neville Chamberlain
8. Idea that the Soviet Union had the ability to build socialism on its own
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9. This philosopher showed the overall attitude of the Enlightenment by saying 'have the courage to use your own understanding'
Giuseppe Mazzini
People's Budget
Kant
Rousseau
10. This was the physicist who said nothing can be known beyond all doubt
Boyle
Mussolini's Rise - role of Black Shirts
Pragmatic Sanction
Thomas Hobbes
11. These were the reasons of bad leadership - and lack of organized or effective army
Reasons for Russian weakness
Ignatius of Loyola
Georges Clemenceau
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
12. This was the last of the wars that occurred over the religious differences in France - between the Catholics (Henry III of France and Henry of Guise) and Protestants (Henry IV)
War of the Three Henrys
Extension of suffrage in Britain
Charles II
Fascism
13. 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
Francis Xavier
Social Darwinism
Erich Ludendorff
Paul Cézanne
14. The two rival communists groups. One weree true revolutionary Marxists - and the other were revisionist socialists.
War of Austrian Succession
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
Diaz
15. First war in Europe - then war in Asia
Vincent Van Gogh
Camillo di Cavour
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Course of WWII
16. This work criticized mercantilism by saying that it meant a combination of stifling government regulations and unfair privileges for state-approved monopolies and government favorites
Wilhelm II Mustafa Kemal
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
Danton
Wealth of Nations
17. This was the Pope that called the Council of Trent
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Pope Paul III
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Commercial revolution
18. This was the revolution as a result of whether the sovereignty would remain with the king or with the Parliament. Eventually - the kingship was abolished
Johann Gutenberg
Vincenzo Gioberti
Neville Chamberlain
English Civil War
19. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance
Warren Hastings
Ninety-five Theses
Social Darwinism
Jean Paul Sartre
20. 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
Doge
Decline of Ottoman Empire
'New Imperialism'
Potato Famine
21. This was the union of skilled workers in the working classes that had a set behavioral code. They were usually run by construction bosses and factory foremen
Edict of Nantes
Labor aristocracy
Diaz
Founding of the British empire in India
22. This was the man who supported and hid Luther after the Diet of Worms
Giuseppe Mazzini
Frederick Elector of Saxony
The 'Big Four'
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
23. A night of violence and vandalism against Jews
Kristallnacht
Duma
Problems of trench life
Index of Prohibited Literature
24. 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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25. These were conclusions reached by the philosophes against which debate was impossible
Emile
Ignatius of Loyola
Natural laws
Spanish Inquisition
26. This was what the early German Romantics called themselves
October Manifesto
Søren Kierkegaard
Sturm und Drang
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
27. A Swiss Protestant theologian who said people were sinful and that religious truth was made know to humans only through God's grace - and people just had to accept God as true and be obedient.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vesalius
Gabriel Marcel
Karl Barth
28. An artistic movement that expressed world that could not normally be seen - like dreams and fantasy.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Post-Impressionism
Copernicus
Justifications for Imperialism
29. The three party system that makes sure that both the conservative and the labor party don't get too radical.
Gabriel Marcel
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
Karl Barth
Labor-Liberal-Conservative Cooperation in Britain
30. The strains lead to millions of people dead - and many revolutions and restructuring
Irish Home Rule
Mary Wollstonecraft
Frederick Elector of Saxony
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
31. This stated that local government had some power - but that ultimate power rested in the hands of Bismarck and William
'Separation of powers'
Louis XIV
Munich Conference
North German Confederation Constitution
32. A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Battles of the Marne
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
Diaz
Zionism
33. This was the start of the building of foreign empires for trade and military advantages over other states
John Calvin
Modern imperialism
Ignatius of Loyola
Thomas Hobbes
34. The old leader of Austria in the years before WWI
Theory of Evolution
Sudetenland
Franz Joseph
Holy Alliance
35. He was a major French Renaissance writer - doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy and satire
Stalin's rise
The Middle Way
Rabelais
Proletariat
36. These were the two parties in the Parliament. The Whigs were mostly liberal and wanted change while the Tories wanted to keep the government as it was
Cardinal Richelieu
Whigs and Tories
Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)
Decline of Ottoman Empire
37. This was the political idea in which the people regarded tradition as the basic source of human institutions and the proper state and society remained those before the French Revolution which rested on a judicious blend on monarchy - bureaucracy - ar
Conservatism
Battle of Tannenberg
People's Budget
Pope Leo X
38. This was the document published by Henry IV that granted liberty of conscience and liberty of public worship to the Huguenots
Grand Alliance - members - goals
Hapsburgs
Edict of Nantes
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
39. This was the work by John Calvin that described to the world the ideology of John Calvin
Holy Alliance
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Rudolf Hess
Why war preparations were 'unstoppable'
40. British writer who wrote of 'the white man's burden' and justified imperialism
Rudyard Kipling
Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Louis Blanc
'Blood and Iron'
41. War preparations were unstoppable because once you started to prepare - you knew that your enemies were doing the same - and you could not stop - because if you did - your enemies could attack you
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42. This was the act passed by Charles VI that stated that Hapsburg possessions were never to be divided - in order to allow his daughter to be ruler
Pragmatic Sanction
Frederick William IV
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
43. He wanted to unify Germany - but played it safe - with many alliances and pacts - and ends up being amazing
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44. 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
Khedive
Existentialism
Maria Theresa
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
45. This man was a radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government
Cavour's program
Battles of the Marne
Johann Gutenberg
Sun Yatsen
46. This ship was sunk with Americans on it - and this action by the Germans was what ultimately caused the Americans to enter the war
Boxer Rebellion
Valois
Lusitania and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Paul Gaugin
47. This king of Prussia was the king who gave into Prussia's constitution
Protestantism
Oedipal Complex
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Frederick William IV
48. German Jewish Politician who advocated the policy of Zionism and the creation of a nation state for all Jewish people.
Bauhaus
Theodor Herzl
Realism
Oedipal Complex
49. He used her to gain politically and to gain money for sex and drugs. He was then 'assassinated' aka tried to be killed something like 8 times - then thrown in a river.
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50. Man who created the printing press and changed the production and reading of books
Johann Gutenberg
War of Spanish Succession
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
North German Confederation Constitution