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AP European History

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1. This was the vast amount of ships sent by Phillip II to attack England because of the conflicts between Phillip II and Mary - Queen of Scots

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






3. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world






4. The members of the Grand alliance were America - Britain - and the Soviet Union; their goals were to Smash the aggressors - Europe first - then Asia






5. Composer of opera Wozzeck - atonal music with half spoken - half sung dialogue - violence and expression






6. This man was a British soldier who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. He is credited with securing India - and the wealth that followed - for the British crown.






7. This was the czar of Russia that Westernized Russia and built up a massive Russian army. He also was interested in building grand cities like those in Western Europe






8. The justification of imperialism - this was created in Kipling's work

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9. French leader of the Vichy republic of France - which was essentially Nazi France. He is seen as a traitor to his people by some Frenchman.






10. When the German economy tried to print bills to pay off their debt - inflation rates of 40% a day






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. This thinker developed a philosophy of two different worlds a material world and a world of the mind. This was called Cartesian dualism. He combined his ideas with Bacon to form the scientific method






13. The clergy made up a very small percentage but owned 10% of the land; the nobles made up another small percentage but also owned most of the land; and the rest of the people made up 97% of France and owned very little land






14. The joining of Austria and Hungary under two different crowns






15. This was the name given to the person appointed by the States General to carry out ceremonial functions in a province in the Netherlands






16. One of the leaders of The Mountain






17. German architect who broke form previous design with light - airy - bright buildings of glass and iron






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






19. People wanted Italian unity because it would unify Italy - and they wanted a different government. People did not want unification because it went against the church - there were very different areas in the north and the south - and because they want






20. The area near Czechoslovakia that was mainly German ethnicity that Germany took.






21. This was the theory that two opposing classes have always battled against eachother to form another class that will battle against its antithesis until the synthesis is one equal class working with each other for each other






22. One of the best examples of a Renaissance man. He painted - wrote - sculpted - invented - among his philosophical ideas






23. The political idea that applied the total war concept on a civil conflict






24. This was the ruling class of Russia after the Cossack Rebellion






25. The German chancellor during the Weimar Republic who convinced the president to accept rule by decree






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






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






28. 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.






29. These acts all started to regulate and ameliorate the conditions of work in the factories and helped make the Industrial Revolution better and the living conditions in the urban areas better






30. 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






31. This was the name of the military dictatorship that England took on during the reign of Oliver Cromwell






32. Literary technique that explored the psyche through different idea randomly bubbling up in a story.






33. Stalin's mass systemic murder of millions to instill fear and to have someone to fight against






34. This was the treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession






35. This was the theory developed by Montesquieu that political power should not be divided and share by a variety of classes and legal estates holding unequal rights and privileges

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36. A Liberal British Prime Minister who gave concessions to various parties and ultimately introduced bills for Irish self-governance






37. There was an large inequality of income and standard of living between Europe and the non-industrialized world because industrialization itself opened the gap






38. 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)






39. Replaces the Provisional Government with Lenin's forces






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






41. This act made it illegal to meet with a group of more than fifty people






42. 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






43. This was the house that took over the English throne after the Glorious Revolution






44. This was the man who was hired by Archbishop Albert of Mainz to sell indulgences - which he did extremely successfully






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






46. German Political mastermind who spearheaded Prussian expansion






47. A Political opponent of Stalin's who was executed for being more popular that Stalin






48. This was the document that stated that if a ruler steps over its proper function to protect the natural rights of life - liberty - and property - than that ruler was a tyrant and must be overthrown






49. Hitler's book in which he outlined his ideas on race - living space - and the Fuhrer






50. This was the meeting called by Pope Paul III that secured reconciliation with the Protestants







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