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AP European History

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1. Supporter of Lenin who helped in the takeover of Petrograd and the Bolshevik revolution






2. An energized movement of radicals from Sicily to the mainland and gaining land for unification

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3. A determined reactionary Tsar who nevertheless sped forward with economic modernization






4. This man both helped to lead the first national union in England and advocated the use of children in factories






5. This physicist developed the law of universal gravitation and further caused the decline of the old system of science






6. This was the re-establishment of the monarchy in England under Charles II. Both houses of Parliament were restored but the religious tensions still were present in England






7. The old leader of Austria in the years before WWI






8. This man was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire in India






9. This man invented the cotton gin which allowed for the faster picking of cotton in the Americas






10. Leading existential Christian thinker - thought catholic church was 'hope - humanity - honesty - and piety -' after broken world and WWI - also advocated closer ties with non-Catholics






11. 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






12. One of the Bloodiest battles in the war - a fight to the death for Japanese soldiers - as the Americans were coming closer to Japan






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






14. This was planned by Georges Haussmann - who was assigned by Napoleon III - to provide employment - improved living conditions - and to show the glory of the French empire






15. This is the passage that many European explorers attempted but never succeeded to navigate to reach other nations more quickly






16. A postimpressionist and expressionist who had a profound impact on 20th century art and committed to form






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






18. 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.






19. This scientist spread the word about the experimental method and formalized the empirical method and combined his thinking with Descartes to form the scientific method






20. Incident in France where a Jewish captain was tried for treason because they military was anti-Semitic - and it divided the country






21. These people were the king and queen of England after the Glorious Revolution that recognized the supremacy of the English Parliament






22. Hitler was popular for promising economic recovery and delivering

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






24. Russia's lower house of politics






25. This French king ruled for the longest time ever in Europe. He issued several economic policies and costly wars. He was the prime example of absolutism in France






26. This was an event where Europe tried to claim Africa as quickly as it could






27. This was the conference that Charles V called to bring Martin Luther to speak






28. These were awful in the 19th Century as a result of poor sewage treatment - water conditions and bad foundations for buildings






29. 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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30. The Austrians tried to stop the nationalism of different people in their country from tearing them apart - but it did not work

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31. He was totally focused on himself - double and tripled crossed - rose by gaining support of party

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32. 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






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






34. This was the king and queen of Spain who took over the Catholic Spain and started the Spanish Inquisition






35. These were the reasons of bad leadership - and lack of organized or effective army






36. This was the man who first theorized that the celestial bodies all revolved around a fixed sun






37. 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






38. These were the liberals of France who did not want to execute Louis XVI - but The Mountain did anyway






39. The western front became stalemated because it was full of trench warfare and needless death






40. This was the man who first detailed the accounted for the circulation of blood flow






41. 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






42. A Spanish artist - founder of Cubism - which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes






43. This event happened to set laws for colonization and claiming land in Africa






44. 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.






45. This was the pope that used the sale of indulgences to rebuild a basilica and he was also the pope who challenged Martin Luther






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






47. This war was began as a follow-up of the War of Austrian Succession when Prussia invaded Austria

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48. This was the harsh and violent conversion of Spain back into Catholicism. They used several versions of torture and fear tactics to convert people back to Catholicism






49. Austria invades Italy and the French come in to help the Italians. The Italians and the French are very successful and gain Lombardy.






50. Suffrage was extended to more middle class men in Britain so that they conservatives would get a stronger base







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