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AP European History
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1. 1) The economic and financial crisis that led to the calling of the Estates General. 2) The political incompetence of Louis XV and XVI. 3) The unfair taxation between the three estates
Hohenzollerns
Committee of Public Safety
Causes of the French Revolution
Structure of German government
2. WWI progressed so the Germans were winning at first - and then the Americans came and kicked butt. It also was so pointless and full of death
Impressionism
Progress of the War
Francois Guizot
Natural laws
3. This was a Romantic writer who wrote prose and poetry
Kant
Victor Hugo
Leon Blum
Masaccio
4. Was a Hungarian Communist politician who ruled Hungary as leader of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919
Wassily Kandinski
Abstract-Expressionism
Béla Kun
Ulrich Zwingli
5. This was the pope that used the sale of indulgences to rebuild a basilica and he was also the pope who challenged Martin Luther
Peterloo
Luddites
Pope Leo X
Joseph Conrad
6. A night of violence and vandalism against Jews
Kristallnacht
Pablo Picasso
Henri-Philippe Pétain
Predestination
7. This is the oath that the representatives of the third estate took when they swore that they would never disband until they had proper representation
Why war was seen as a good thing in 1914
Salons
Tennis Court Oath
Magyar policies
8. An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors - lines and shapes.
Kulaks
Elizabeth I
War of Spanish Succession
Abstract-Expressionism
9. A revisionist social who advocated the gradual gain of socialism and looked towards Darwin's doctrines as a measure for a change in socialism's tactics
Edward Bernstein
Romanticism
Rudyard Kipling
Thermidorian Reaction and The Directory
10. This was the start of the building of foreign empires for trade and military advantages over other states
Lebensraum
Modern imperialism
Committee of Public Safety
War Communism
11. This was the man who served under Cardinal Richelieu and laid the foundations for Louis XIV's expansionist policies
'White' forces
Cardinal Mazarin
Sicily
Sudetenland
12. 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.
Passchendaele
The Middle Way
Valois
Joseph Lister
13. The strains lead to millions of people dead - and many revolutions and restructuring
Savonarola
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strains of the war on the Great Powers
Modern liberalism
14. The strip of Poland that the Germans wanted to take - specifically Danzig
Henri-Philippe Pétain
Syllabus of Errors
Polish Corridor
Napoleonic Code
15. This war was began as a follow-up of the War of Austrian Succession when Prussia invaded Austria
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16. This was the first person to lead an expedition that circumnavigated the world
Russo-Japanese War - impact in Russia
Louis XIV
Camillo di Cavour
Magellan
17. Fascist Dictator of Italy that at first used bullying to gain power - then never had full power.
Benito Mussolini
Charles II
Neville Chamberlain
Paris Commune
18. Great British prime minister who advocated peace and a policy of appeasement
Neville Chamberlain
Comintern
Stadholder
Henry VIII
19. A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races
Peace of Utrecht
Anti-Semitism
Sergei Kirov
da Gama
20. This event occurred when both Britain and France wanted the town of Fashoda; in the end - the British gained control of the town - because the French gave up
Theory of Class Struggle
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
Nuremburg Laws
Giuseppe Mazzini
21. British writer who wrote of 'the white man's burden' and justified imperialism
Johann Tetzel
D-Day
Rudyard Kipling
Alban Berg
22. Zeppelins - airplanes - gas - machine guns - tanks - These things were new ideas that really did not work very well
Innovations in weaponry
Pierre Auguste Renoir
John Calvin
Bolsheviks/Mensheviks
23. A period of reform for china in the attempt to meet the foreign challenge
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24. A Nazi politician and president of the Reichstag
Francis Xavier
Roundheads and Cavaliers
Meeting at Marburg
Hermann Göring
25. The forced famine of Ukraine by Stalin over not producing enough grain
Peter the Great
Radical Dictatorships
Laissez-faire capitalism
Ukrainian Famine
26. This was a movement to create a Serbian state and break from Austria Hungary
Mussolini's Rise - role of Black Shirts
Jean Bodin
Serbian nationalist movement
Charists
27. This event happened to set laws for colonization and claiming land in Africa
Swallows / Repatriation
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
Corn Laws
Alfred von Schlieffen
28. People justified imperialism by the concept of 'white man's burden -' which stated that European should govern other because it was right and better for the people
Fourteen Points
Justifications for Imperialism
Concordat of 1801
Charles Darwin
29. A failed British offensive in Ottoman empire
Francis Xavier
Gallipoli
Georges Clemenceau
Magellan
30. President of the Weimar Republic of Germany who appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933
Income inequality / Standard of Living
Paul von Hindenburg
Eli Whitney
Omdurman
31. The small government in Paris who wanted to resist the conservative leaders of France and tried to form their own government
Paris Commune
Savonarola
Raymond Poincaré
Puritan
32. This was the king and queen of Spain who took over the Catholic Spain and started the Spanish Inquisition
Course of WWII
Ferdinand and Isabella
Suez Canal
Walter Gropius
33. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia
Physiocrats
Catherine the Great
Renaissance Popes
Revolutions of 1830
34. An artistic movement that expressed world that could not normally be seen - like dreams and fantasy.
People's Budget
Post-Impressionism
Benjamin Disraeli
Jesuits
35. An armed uprising in Munich of maybe 50 people at most - crushed - Hitler's idea
Beer Hall Putsch
Louis Napoleon's rise & ideas on gov't
Georges Clemenceau
Progress of the War
36. These were the French workers' revolts in 1848 after the closure of the National Workshops
Predestination
June Days
Nicholas II
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
37. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance
Ninety-five Theses
Brunelleschi
Karl Marx
'Spanish Armada'
38. These decrees required the thirty-eight German member states to root out subversive ideas in the universities and newspapers an established a permanent committee with spies and informers to investigate and punish any liberal or radical organizations
Treaty of Versailles terms
Lateran Agreement
Karlsbad Decrees
Heinrich Brüning
39. A local coulcil of politicians to deal with local problems in Russia
Zemstvo
Seven Years' War
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Henrí Matisse
40. The Japanese had a war with China and ended up gaining Korea - which they opened to trade; Japan became an imperialist power
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41. This was the Catholic king of England after Charles II that granted everyone religious freedom and even appointed Roman Catholics to positions in the army and government
Roundheads and Cavaliers
National self-determination
Treaty of Nanking
James II
42. German Foreign Minister who assumed leadership of government and got the French to move out of the Ruhr
Da Vinci
James Joyce
Gustav Stresemann
Laissez-faire capitalism
43. 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
Reasons for and against Italian unity
Open Door Policy
Kepler
D-Day
44. A Political opponent of Stalin's who was executed for being more popular that Stalin
William I
Sergei Kirov
Robert Clive
Khedive
45. First comedy writer that wrote 100 verses that described the realms of the next world
Progress of the War
Jean Bodin
Dante
Labor aristocracy
46. This stated that local government had some power - but that ultimate power rested in the hands of Bismarck and William
North German Confederation Constitution
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -- the Black Hand
Karlsbad Decrees
Enabling Act
47. Inhumane and cruel leader of the SS in Germany - appointed by Hitler
Theory of Class Struggle
Troppau Conference
Heinrich Himmler
Mary Wollstonecraft
48. This was the royal dynasty of Austria that ruled over a vast part of Central Europe while battling with the Turks over Hungary
Gold Glory and God
Oswald Spengler
Gravrilo Princip
Hapsburgs
49. This was the period of economic and political expansion - colonialism - and mercantilism that occurred in Europe
Id - Ego - Superego
Commercial revolution
Witte's reforms
Decline of Ottoman Empire
50. A Venetian man who created the style of mannerism in which artists sometimes distorted figures to express emotion and drama
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
Habeas Corpus Act
Titan
Rudolf Hess