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AP European History
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1. German chancellor who hoped for WWI to happen - but without Britain
Theodor Herzl
Committee of Public Safety
Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg
Stalingrad
2. The area near Czechoslovakia that was mainly German ethnicity that Germany took.
Holy Alliance
Revanchisme
Sudetenland
Raymond Poincaré
3. This was the man who starting absolutism in Prussia by uniting the three provinces of Prussia under one ruler.
Frederick William (The Great Elector)
Tennis Court Oath
Miasma Theory / Germ Theory
Frederick the Great
4. The pact was an agreement to define the border between France and Germany - and in which Britain and Italy would gang up on the aggressor if the treaty was broken. The spirit was this feeling that war could be stopped again by peace talks that settle
Locarno Pact / Spirit of Locarno
Lebensraum
Extension of suffrage in Britain
Charles Talleyrand
5. This was the physicist who said nothing can be known beyond all doubt
William and Mary
Leon Trotsky
Boyle
Henry VIII
6. British military commander who believed in expansion and founded the De Beers Mining Company
Cecil Rhodes
Peninsular War
Columbus
Conservatism
7. One of the best examples of a Renaissance man. He painted - wrote - sculpted - invented - among his philosophical ideas
Da Vinci
Gallipoli
Impressionism
'Crown from the gutter'
8. Young rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform
Frederick William IV
Young Turks
Egyptian Nationalist Party
Revanchisme
9. This English poet joined the Greeks and died fighting so that they may be free
Lateran Agreement
Lord Byron
First - Second - Third Balkan War
Treaty of Versailles terms
10. This was the Scottish royal family that ruled England after Elizabeth I
Varieties of Socialism
Spanish Inquisition
Sudetenland
The Stuarts
11. This man invented the cotton gin which allowed for the faster picking of cotton in the Americas
Eli Whitney
'Bloody Sunday' (1905) - Causes - actions - effects
First - Second - Third Balkan War
Theory of Evolution
12. This was the 'revolution' that replaced James II with William and Mary that also recognized the supremacy of the Parliament with minimum bloodshed
Donatello
Two Treatises on Government (John Locke)
Glorious Revolution
People's Budget
13. 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
Berlin Conference of 1884-5
Working class leisure
Kepler
Battles of the Marne
14. Danish religious philosopher who made a total religious commitment to a remote and majestic god - after rejecting formalistic religion
Louis XIII
Camillo di Cavour
Søren Kierkegaard
Irish Home Rule
15. This was the revolution as a result of whether the sovereignty would remain with the king or with the Parliament. Eventually - the kingship was abolished
English Civil War
Theory of Class Struggle
Henri-Philippe Pétain
William Gladstone
16. The twisted social idea that used the theory of evolution and applied to people
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Battle of the Somme
Social Darwinism
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
17. Given by the Provisional Government - this stripped the army officers of power - and placed it in hand of elected committees. This collapsed army discipline
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Army Order Number 1
Newton
18. The plan that Germany would attack France quickly and then move towards Russia
'Universal Man'
Brunelleschi
Robert Castlereagh
The Schlieffen Plan
19. These terms said that Germany had to pay money - that Germany had to give up land - and that Germany had to keep its army size down
Treaty of Versailles terms
Franz Liszt
Battles of the Marne
Raymond Poincaré
20. All of these were wars for nationalistic purposes - the third creating WWI
Revolutions of 1830
First - Second - Third Balkan War
Socialists and Nationalism
Galileo
21. This war showed that Russia was still not strong - and it caused revolution back at home.
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Russo-Japanese War - impact in Russia
El Alamein
Austro-Sardinian War
22. The French idea of revenge for what Germany did in the Franco-Prussian war
Concert of Europe (Congress System)
Pope Leo X
Revanchisme
John A. Hobson
23. The most of these were economical and not political - and even then were mostly only halfway efforts
Kulturkampf
Anton Denikin
Russian Modernization
Cottage industry
24. The common crime of paying for holy offices for the position of power
Neville Chamberlain
Voltaire
Rhineland remilitarization
Simony
25. This was a insurrection of Muslim and Hindi army officers that spread through northern India before it was crushed. It was because of people trying to send out the white army officers
1842 Western penetration of Egypt
Franz von Papen
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
Great Rebellion (Indian Mutiny)
26. This man wrote Imperialism - a critique of imperalism
William and Mary
Midway
Donatello
John A. Hobson
27. This was the period of economic and political expansion - colonialism - and mercantilism that occurred in Europe
Nicholas II
Ferdinand and Isabella
Commercial revolution
Philosophes
28. This work advocated economic and moral freedom of individuals from the state. This work is enormously influential to politics today
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
Revolutions of 1848
Ruhr Crisis 1923
On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
29. The members of the Grand alliance were America - Britain - and the Soviet Union; their goals were to Smash the aggressors - Europe first - then Asia
Victor Emmanuel
Grand Alliance - members - goals
Pragmatic Sanction
Muhammad Ali
30. This was the Holy Roman Emperor that called for the Diet of Worms. He was a supporter of Catholicism and tried to crush the Reformation by use of the Counter-Reformation
Fashoda Crisis of 1898
'Socialism in one country'
Charles V
Woodrow Wilson
31. This was the battle that Napoleon lost after his return from Elba that ended his reign as French ruler
Battle of Waterloo
Giuseppe Mazzini
'The White Man's Burden'
Cosmo deMedici
32. Unsuccessful uprising of sailors - soldiers - and civilians against Russian government (against Bolsheviks)
Kulturkampf
Index of Prohibited Literature
Swallows / Repatriation
Kronstadt Rebels
33. War was seen as a good thing because it would cover up all of the problems that every country involved had going on at home
Philip II of Spain
German 1918 Offensive
Why war was seen as a good thing in 1914
Louis Blanc
34. This battle was a French/British victory - because they stopped the German offensive
Conservative Authoritarianism
Battles of the Marne
Lebensraum
Raymond Poincaré
35. King of Italy who gave Mussolini legitimacy as dictator
Victor Emmanuel III
Cavour's program
John Constable (The Haywain)
Labor aristocracy
36. The western front became stalemated because it was full of trench warfare and needless death
Liberalism (Classical Liberalism)
Erasmus
Karl Lueger
Why the Western Front became stalemated
37. This was the motto of the age of exploration. The explorers were looking for money - glory - or to convert non-Christians
Gold Glory and God
Stalin's rise
Problems of trench life
Warren Hastings
38. Was a reaction to the loss of faith in humans - which came from the war - and lead to renewed interest in Christian view of the world. Major people were Kierkegaard - Barth - and Marcel.
Paul Valéry
Costs of the war -- monetary & human
Christian Revival
Partition of Poland
39. This was the work that started the tabula rasa theory where the human mind is blank until it is filled with experiences that allow a person to think differently
Edict of Nantes
Favorable balance of trade
Northwest Passage
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
40. Hitler's book in which he outlined his ideas on race - living space - and the Fuhrer
Mein Kampf
Methodism
Alfred Dreyfus
Oliver Cromwell
41. He was chief of the general staff during WWI for the Germans
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
Maria Theresa
Alexander I
Erich von Falkenhayn
42. 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
Renaissance Popes
William II
Hitler's Rise
Stalingrad
43. An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images
Nicholas II
Henry VIII
Surrealism
Beer Hall Putsch
44. The Magyar pushed through bills that changed voting laws to help the elite and to force through the teaching of Hungarian in schools. They created the nationalism that would tear them apart
Magyar policies
Ulrich Zwingli
Migration: Who went where - and why? (demographics)
War Communism
45. This explorer first saw the mainland of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal while sailing to set up trading posts in India
Cabral
Diet of Worms
Martin Luther
Bolshevik (October) Revolution
46. Supporter of Lenin who helped in the takeover of Petrograd and the Bolshevik revolution
Cervantes
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Leon Trotsky
The Middle Way
47. This French king appointed Cardinal Richelieu
Ulrich Zwingli
Louis XIII
Austro-Sardinian War
Social Democrats
48. A French philosophy professor who said that personal experiences and intuition were more important than rational thought and thinking
Sale of Indulgences
Great Depression - Causes - efforts to deal with
Witte's reforms
Henri Bergson
49. The largest political party in Sweden - who pushed for social reform legislation - and drew support from community and socialist and capitalist working together.
Leon Trotsky
Social Democrats
Decline of Ottoman Empire
Vesalius
50. The big 4 were US - Britain - France and Italy
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