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AP European History
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1. 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
'Bloody Sunday' (1905) - Causes - actions - effects
Bacon
Edward VI
Grigori Rasputin
2. This is the value of the unpaid surplus labor performed by the worker for the capitalist for profit
William I
Surplus Value
Stream-of-Consciousness
Collectivization
3. This German - along with his partner Hindenburg - essentially ran Germany during the end of the war
Erich Ludendorff
'The White Man's Burden'
William Wordsworth
1859 Garibaldi's invasion
4. This was the man who first detailed the accounted for the circulation of blood flow
Harvey
Robert Castlereagh
Alexandra
Austro-Prussian War - Causes & Outcomes
5. A railroad that went across Siberia
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Little Entente
Rousseau
6. There were the early French socialists who believed in economic planning and argued that the government should rationally organize the economy and not depend on destructive competition to do the job. There was also dialectic socialism in which the fo
Rudolf Hess
Theodor Herzl
William Gladstone
Varieties of Socialism
7. The political idea that applied the total war concept on a civil conflict
Vincenzo Gioberti
Munich Conference
Progress of the War
War Communism
8. 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
Three Estates
Gallipoli
Test Act of 1673
Jesuits
9. 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.
'Separation of powers'
Nationalism
Austrian Anschluss
Oedipal Complex
10. This was the battle that Napoleon lost after his return from Elba that ended his reign as French ruler
Georges Haussmann
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Battle of Waterloo
Rhineland remilitarization
11. This was the ruler of the Habsburgs that controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom
The Schlieffen Plan
Joseph II
Carbonari
Martin Luther
12. This man revolutionized the way to manufacture steel by making the process quicker and more efficient
Henry Bessemer
Seditious Meetings Act
Erich Ludendorff
Second International
13. This was the first French president as a result of the election after the Revolution of 1848
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
Michelangelo
Goldhagen Thesis
Martin Luther
14. A Weimar (German) architectural school created by Walter Gropius which combined the fine arts and functionalism
William I
Young Turks
Bauhaus
'Crown from the gutter'
15. The final straw for the Japanese - resulting in millions of civilian and military death. Little Boy and Fat Man were used here. These flew on the plane 'The Enola Gay'
Scramble for Africa
Potato Famine
Frederick the Great
A-bombs - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
16. The conservative party in Britain was put down when the king threatened to make more liberal seats to pass bills that the conservatives were vetoing
Liberal v. Conservative Parties in Britain
Modern imperialism
Nepotism
Tennis Court Oath
17. This was the group of people that was important in converting Asians and Latin Americans to Catholicism which allowed for the mass spread of Christianity
Valois
Banking Families
Jesuits
Mary Wollstonecraft
18. This was the group that carried out the Reign of Terror
Robert Clive
Rudolf Hess
Stadholder
Committee of Public Safety
19. A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races
Dadaism
Goldhagen Thesis
Ghibeleines
Anti-Semitism
20. President of the Weimar Republic of Germany who appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Paul von Hindenburg
Cavour's program
Laissez-faire capitalism
21. This was the equivalent of a king in Egypt
Khedive
Georg Hegel
Encyclopedia
Post-Impressionism
22. The idea that human beings simply exist - have no higher purpose - and must exist and choose their actions for themselves. Existentialism mainly influenced by Nietzsche. Existentialism sustain popularity in Germany with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jasp
Existentialism
Max Planck
Pope Leo X
Realism
23. The socialist idea that we should embrace socialism in a gradual advance - with no bloody war
Phalansteries
Savonarola
Revisionism
Isolation & 'Opening' of China and Japan
24. This was an influential French writer who wrote about naturalism and was often criticized
Habeas Corpus Act
Emile Zola
Alexandra
Appeasement
25. This was a short ottoman parliament designed to model the western model of an empire
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
China's Hundred Days of Reform
Tanzimat
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
26. This was the other common crime in which the members of the church would give positions to relatives
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nepotism
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
October Manifesto
27. He used light and dark imagery to illustrate different feelings and emotions
Marie Curie
Effects of the Scientific Revolution
Miasma Theory / Germ Theory
Masaccio
28. Aristocracy > Middle Class (Upper > Middle > Lower) > Working Classes (Labor Aristocracy > Semiskilled > Unskilled)
Working class leisure
19th century class structure
Goldhagen Thesis
Titan
29. This is the political faction in Italy that supported the Holy Roman Empire
Ghibeleines
Vesalius
Louis XIV
Jesuits
30. 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
Kepler
Paul Valéry
Oswald Spengler
Duma
31. This was the act of planning out a city and building it from the blueprints. This caused in increase in public transit that millions of people used a day instead of their own transportation or walking
Urban planning and public transit
Louis XVIII
Max Planck
Five Year plans - objectives - methods - success
32. This was the Parliament after Oliver Cromwell dismissed the Cavaliers
Theory of Class Struggle
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rump Parliament
Muhammad Ali
33. 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
Voltaire
Raymond Poincaré
Witte's reforms
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
34. A new principle of building design that focused on buildings being functional which means serving the purpose it was made for best
Hyperinflation
Functionalism
Nicholas II
Beer Hall Putsch
35. Was an international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight 'by all available means - including armed force - for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an internati
Comintern
Reasons for Bolshevik victory
Duma
Johann Tetzel
36. This was what the early German Romantics called themselves
Vesalius
Grigori Rasputin
Romanticism
Sturm und Drang
37. An agrarian socialist who became prime minister. He refused to confiscate land holdings and felt that continuation of war was most important.
Otto von Bismarck
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
Peterloo
Alexander Kerensky
38. Leader of the French socialist party Popular Front - made first and real attempt to deal with the economic and social problems
Leon Blum
War of Spanish Succession
Gabriel Marcel
Savonarola
39. A tough finance minister who thought that Russia's industrial backwardness was threatening Russia's power and greatness
Surplus Value
Revolutions of 1848
Partition of Poland
Sergei Witte
40. These were the French Calvinists that were often persecuted until the Edict of Nantes
Alban Berg
Pietism
Huguenots
Middle class values
41. Zeppelins - airplanes - gas - machine guns - tanks - These things were new ideas that really did not work very well
Methodism
Innovations in weaponry
Uncertainty Principle
Edwin Chadwick
42. 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.
Peasants' War
Jean Paul Sartre
Neville Chamberlain
Ismail Ali
43. This was the king who issued the Edict of Nantes
Walther Rathenau
Henry IV of France
Appeasement
Hyperinflation
44. 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
Sicily
'Spanish Armada'
Leopold II
Conservatism
45. The main leader of The Mountain and the man who ruled France after the First Revolution
Victor Hugo
Robespierre
Physiocrats
Walter Scott
46. The twisted social idea that used the theory of evolution and applied to people
Social Darwinism
Sino-Japanese War
Khedive
Wealth of Nations
47. French military leader who assumed control of France and lead it out of the war successfully
Henri Pétain
Karl Lueger
Klemens von Metternich
Japanese 'opening' of Korea
48. 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.
The Middle Way
Philip II of Spain
Elizabeth I
Christian Revival
49. A Venetian man who created the style of mannerism in which artists sometimes distorted figures to express emotion and drama
German 1918 Offensive
Why the Western Front became stalemated
The 'Big Four'
Titan
50. This was a policy of discriminatory laws designed to keep Asians out of countries
Great White Walls
Labor aristocracy
Protestantism
da Gama