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AP European History

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






2. This was the meeting that tried to settle the dispute between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli over the presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper.






3. The socialist idea that we should embrace socialism in a gradual advance - with no bloody war






4. Unsuccessful uprising of sailors - soldiers - and civilians against Russian government (against Bolsheviks)






5. An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors - lines and shapes.






6. The Duke of Florence and the old ruler of the city-states of Italy






7. A plan in British parliament that increased spending on social services

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8. This was the start of the building of foreign empires for trade and military advantages over other states






9. This was the man who supported and hid Luther after the Diet of Worms






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

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






12. The pact was an agreement to define the border between France and Germany - and in which Britain and Italy would gang up on the aggressor if the treaty was broken. The spirit was this feeling that war could be stopped again by peace talks that settle






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






14. 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






15. This was a playwright and a philosophe who said that the best that one could hope for in a government is a good monarch and he even often criticized the Catholic Church and government in his plays






16. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy






17. When Germany moved through Belgium - it caused Britain to go on the side of the war with France.

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18. 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






19. These were the French Calvinists that were often persecuted until the Edict of Nantes






20. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia






21. The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags






22. The revolution of the unplanned overthrowing of the Tsarist government - and the government that followed the revolution.






23. This scientist formulated the experimental method and using this - came up with the law of inertia - among several discoveries related to the moon






24. This was one o the original men to challenge the church. His writings became 'scriptures' for other reformers to follow.






25. 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.






26. Was a German industrialist - politician - writer - and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.






27. Was a pact that said that just said was bad - but did not outline any method for preventing war.






28. Idea that the Soviet Union had the ability to build socialism on its own

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






30. German socialist revolutionary who was assassinated after the war






31. This German - along with his partner Hindenburg - essentially ran Germany during the end of the war






32. The forced famine of Ukraine by Stalin over not producing enough grain






33. This was the man who served under Cardinal Richelieu and laid the foundations for Louis XIV's expansionist policies






34. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. This was the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War that recognized the independent authority of over three hundred German principalities






41. This was new thought that the governments should be subject to change. This was the counterpart to conservatism






42. This was the war between France and Spain in order to unite the two states under one ruler - Phillip V






43. A Jewish military captain in the French Army - he was falsely accused of treason - and his affair split France apart






44. A German physicist that speculated that there was no real certainty in where an electron was - and only tendencies. This broke down Newton's dependable laws to only probabilities.






45. 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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46. This was the name that England took on after the civil war and the kingship was abolished






47. This was the man who starting absolutism in Prussia by uniting the three provinces of Prussia under one ruler.






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






49. This French king appointed Cardinal Richelieu






50. This work advocated breast feeding and natural dress and that boys' education should have plenty of fresh air and exercise and he said a women's nature was a life of marriage and child rearing