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AP European History

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A Liberal British Prime Minister who gave concessions to various parties and ultimately introduced bills for Irish self-governance






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






3. A Siberian preacher who became friends of the Tsars - but hated by the public - twisted and cheated and exploited Alexandra.






4. The French Revolution of 1830 occurred because Louis XVIII only granted a small percentage of people the right to vote and Charles X attack of Algeria and as a result - he censored the press and limited the voting rights of the wealthy






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






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






7. Opponent of Tsarist Russia - began to immerse himself in Marxian socialist ideas as a law student. He then went on to form the Bolsheviks - and tried to start a revolution in July 1917. It failed - he went into hiding - but regrouped in Petrograd - w






8. This battle was a German victory against the Russian - the Russians were crushed






9. This was the working class in that was constantly battling against the bourgeois factory owners






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






12. Was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of its systematic genocide against European Jewry during World War II - resulting in the final - most deadly phase of the Holocaust






13. President of the Weimar Republic of Germany who appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933






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






15. The acceptance of Stalin though propaganda






16. These were Dutch settlers in south Africa






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






18. French stockbroker turned painter - pioneered expressionist techniques and fled to South Pacific






19. A Freudian physiological idea that if you did not get over loving your parent of the opposite sex - you would have this complex where you hated your other parent and have issues with parental relations.






20. A radical idealistic patriot who wanted a centralized democratic republic based on universal male suffrage and will of the people in Italy






21. This English poet joined the Greeks and died fighting so that they may be free






22. This was the first explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope and sail into the Indian Ocean trade






23. 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






24. A Weimar (German) architectural school created by Walter Gropius which combined the fine arts and functionalism






25. Upper class and Conservatives did not want unification because they would have less power - but the rest of the people wanted it because of nationalism and German identity






26. A French philosophy professor who said that personal experiences and intuition were more important than rational thought and thinking






27. 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






28. A Russian Tsar who implemented rapid social change and general modernization of Russia.






29. A policy in which US made formal annexation of China






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






31. This man promoted the idea of sterilizing medical equipment before operating






32. This movement said that all men and women who sought salvation might be saved - giving the people a message of hope






33. One of the members of the banker family of Florence that ruled behind the scenes of the government






34. The Scandinavian system of in the middle of socialism and capitalism - an ideology that you can have some of your own things and keep some of your money - and have higher tax rates.






35. This French king appointed Cardinal Richelieu






36. These were the types of buildings designed by Charles Fourier for a utopian society






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

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






39. This was when the French left - and the British moved in and invaded and captured Egypt






40. This socialist man believed that property is theft






41. These were the theories of the spread of disease. The miasma theory said that disease was spread by a bad odor. The new germ theory developed by Louis Pasteur said that diseases were spread by bacteria called germs






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






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






44. British military officer who incited the Arabs in Arabia to revolt against their Turkish lords






45. He 'used the west to catch up to the west' in Russia - by having foreigners build factories and making new transport lines.

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46. This new German emperor opposed Bismarck - fired him - and ended up being less successful than Bismarck anyway






47. 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






48. The philosophical ideology that simply rejected the concerns of modern philosophy - like god and morality. Mainly started with Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein.






49. Felt that Aryan white people were most superior - Scandinavian were 2nd best - French were 3rd - and the slavs - jews - and pretty much the rest were the worst






50. The plan that Germany would attack France quickly and then move towards Russia