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AP European History
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1. This war was began as a follow-up of the War of Austrian Succession when Prussia invaded Austria
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2. He used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions
The Prince
Masaccio
Vespucci
Philosophy of the Enlightenment
3. The new idea that revitalized the period of expansion and gathering of colonies
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4. The philosophy of the liberal arts that emphasized human beings and their achievements
Humanism
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Erich von Falkenhayn
Renaissance Popes
5. British writer who wrote of 'the white man's burden' and justified imperialism
Wassily Kandinski
Rudyard Kipling
Arnold Schönberg
Encyclopedia
6. A French existentialist who said that people just 'turned up' and that there was no God to help honest people. Also said 'man is condemned to be free' and people had to choose their actions.
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
Jean Paul Sartre
National self-determination
'Spanish Armada'
7. This granted full civil rights to people and opened up the Duma
D-Day
Responses to Imperialism: Traditionalist v. Modernist
October Manifesto
Laissez-faire capitalism
8. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia
Oligarchy
Catherine the Great
Zollverein
Columbus
9. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and foremost general for the White Russians in the Russian civil war.
Alexander II
Anton Denikin
Peace of Westphalia
'White' forces
10. This is the act in which Napoleon ended the Directory by ousting the Directors and disbanding the legislature. He then established a strong military dictatorship in place of the weak Directory
Robert Owen
Brumaire Coup and The Consulate
James Joyce
Victor Emmanuel III
11. The Dreyfus affair lead to the separation of church and state - and lead to more people in government backed schools that were no longer catholic schools but republican schools.
French educational reforms
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
Decline of Ottoman Empire
John Calvin
12. This American naval officer was the driving factor in Japan's opening by using gunboat diplomacy
Matthew Perry
The Commonwealth of England
Existentialism
Boxer Rebellion
13. French offensive that resulted in an almost mutiny by the French military
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14. This was the extremely lopsided victory by English army over the protestors as a result of the Corn Laws
October Manifesto
Open Door Policy
Peterloo
Impressionism
15. The British had a war with the Chinese to make sure they could sell their opium to china
Paul von Hindenburg
British Opium Trade / Opium Wars
Five Year plans - objectives - methods - success
Trans-Siberian Railroad
16. These were general title given to the popes that would convince the Renaissance artists to work for them in order to enhance the majesty of the churches
'The White Man's Burden'
Renaissance Popes
Josef Pilsudaski
British Opium Trade / Opium Wars
17. This was the term given to those in the Renaissance who were able to excel in more than one subject matter
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18. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Line of Demarcation
Benito Mussolini
Magellan
Ruhr Crisis 1923
19. This man believed that the moral worth of an action is determined by its contribution to happiness as summed among all persons
John Calvin
Isolation & 'Opening' of China and Japan
Robert Nievelle
Bentham (Utilitarianism)
20. This war showed that the Russian were way behind the rest of the world - and needed reform.
The Little Entente
Varieties of Socialism
Crimean War - impact in Britain & Russia
Existentialism
21. An extreme abstract expressionist - leader of 'the beasts -' focused on arrangement of color - line and form
Two Treatises on Government (John Locke)
Gallipoli
Henrí Matisse
Peace of Utrecht
22. The ruler of Venice
British Opium Trade / Opium Wars
Jean Jaures
Austrian Anschluss
Doge
23. This man believed that each age is characterized by a dominant set of ideas - which produces opposing ideas and a new synthesis
Vincenzo Gioberti
'Effective Occupation'
Georg Hegel
Wilhelm II Mustafa Kemal
24. Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church
Kulturkampf
John A. Hobson
Great White Walls
Socialists and Nationalism
25. He was a major French Renaissance writer - doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy and satire
'Effective Occupation'
Rabelais
Nuremburg Laws
Girondists
26. Leaders who violently rejected parliamentary restraint and liberal values - as well as exercised unprecedented control over masses and sought to mobilize them for war.
Radical Dictatorships
Role of reason
Renaissance Popes
Glorious Revolution
27. 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
Louis XVIII
Encyclopedia
Nievelle's Offensive
Klemens von Metternich
28. This was the list of books that were prohibited by the papacy in order to stop more religious thinkers
Thomas Hobbes
Thirty Years' War
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Index of Prohibited Literature
29. An energized movement of radicals from Sicily to the mainland and gaining land for unification
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30. This is the passage that many European explorers attempted but never succeeded to navigate to reach other nations more quickly
Neville Chamberlain
Treaty of Paris (1763)
China's Hundred Days of Reform
Northwest Passage
31. A battle between Muslim warriors and British machine gunners - a bloody massacre
William Gladstone
Omdurman
Béla Kun
Great Rebellion (Indian Mutiny)
32. This was the king who started the success of Spain's foreign colonies
Gabriel Marcel
Urban living conditions
Philip II of Spain
Battle of Waterloo
33. This man invented the cotton gin which allowed for the faster picking of cotton in the Americas
Eli Whitney
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
Structure of German government
Kulaks
34. The well off peasants who were starved or shipped to the gulags
Zollverein
Abstract-Expressionism
Kulaks
Gold Glory and God
35. The justification of imperialism - this was created in Kipling's work
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36. A telegram which the French gave to the Germans in anger over the Succession of the Throne in Spain - but the Germans altered it to look like the French were rude and evil. The French declared war.
Thomas Hobbes
Ems Telegram
Locarno Pact / Spirit of Locarno
Innovations in weaponry
37. Was a French philosopher and historian who wrote Era of Tyrannies - which talked about the different kinds of government and how they all stemmed out of nature of modern war.
Hapsburgs
Elie Halévy
Fourteen Points
Why war preparations were 'unstoppable'
38. Cavour's plan was to first modernize the econ - and model it off of Britain - then modernize the military - with lots of railroads to move the troops around to country
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39. This explorer first saw the mainland of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal while sailing to set up trading posts in India
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -- the Black Hand
Werner Heisenberg
Cabral
Petrarch
40. The common crime of paying for holy offices for the position of power
'The White Man's Burden'
Isolation & 'Opening' of China and Japan
Simony
Rabelais
41. Hitler used this to launch his dictatorship and used this to give him power. It was a fire of a capital building
Prince Henry the Navigator
'Liberty - Equality - Fraternity'
German 1918 Offensive
Reichstag fire & fallout
42. This king of Prussia was the king who gave into Prussia's constitution
Paris Reconstruction
Louis Blanc
Frederick William IV
Vincenzo Gioberti
43. 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
Johann Gutenberg
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
Gabriel Marcel
Appeasement
44. These were the two sides of the English civil war. The Roundheads were the Puritan supporters of the Parliament and the Cavaliers were the supporters of Charles I
Wanderer in the Clouds (Friedrich)
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
Roundheads and Cavaliers
Hyperinflation
45. A rebellion of traditionalist Chinese people who wanted to throw the foreigners out
Greek revolution
Robert Koch
Boxer Rebellion
Five Year plans - objectives - methods - success
46. This was a man who believed that Christian life rested on the Scriptures and a prominent leader in the Swiss Reformation. He went on to attack indulgences - the Mass - the institution of monasticism - and clerical celibacy
Ulrich Zwingli
Magyar policies
Peace of Westphalia
Petrarch
47. He wanted to unify Germany - but played it safe - with many alliances and pacts - and ends up being amazing
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48. This German - along with his partner Hindenburg - essentially ran Germany during the end of the war
Erich Ludendorff
Nazi racial theories
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Zemstvo
49. These were groups of secret revolutionary societies in Italy
House of Orange
'Effective Occupation'
Carbonari
Titan
50. First comedy writer that wrote 100 verses that described the realms of the next world
Simony
Swallows / Repatriation
Dante
da Gama