AP Euro Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Jacob Burckhardt's view of the Renaissance | overstating the Renaissance was a "rebirth" |
| Factors in the start of the Hundred Years' War | Rivalry of England and France as the two strongest Western European Powers, The land held by English kings in southwestern France, Manufacture of woolen textiles in Flanders, The English king's claim to the French throne. |
| what the Tutor line of English monarchs was know for | absolute rule |
| Would England retain continental possessions in France? | Question settled in the Hundred Years' War |
| "founder of French absolutism" | Louis XI |
| Tactics used by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain | Directly limiting the constitutions of Aragon and Castile to enhance their power and persuing an aggressive policy in acquiring Italian lands. |
| Factors undermining the influence of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages | an increase of nationalism, the rise of strong monarchs in England and France, the new economic emphasis on money, and the growth of humanism |
| Francesco Petrarch | humanism |
| Jan van Eyck's painting | attention to details and style typifies Flemish Renaissance style |
| The Black Death | increase in the proportion of unqualified clergy |
| Reasons the Protestant Reformation was successful | kings wanted to contain absolute control, land hungry nobility wanted church property, an alienated middle class, and spirit of questioning and individualism |
| absolute state=protestant reformation | political and religious divided, which had formerly weakened the power of the political ruler |
| Martin Luther's beliefs | papal infallibility, Jan Hus's doctrines were not heretical, attack on the sale of Indulgences, and salvation through faith alone |
| invention in last fifteenth century in Germany | The printing press |
| Ulrich Zwingli's teachings differed from with Martin Luthers | the meaning of communion |
| Philip II of Spain | ended Turkish control of the Mediterranean with military attacks |
| Was not a principle motive for European colonization in the in the 15th and 16th centuries | overcrowding due to industrial agglomeration |
| Thirty Years War | developed a more modern state system, breaking up the HRE, moving the focus of economic wealth from central to western Europe, religious diversity |
| Henry IV's foreign policy | preventing Hapsburg encirclement of France |
| Cardinal Mazarin of France | established a legacy of absolutism |
| Privy Council | legal cases |
| Provisions of the Treaty of Utrecht | French and Spanish thrones were to remain permanently separate, duchies of Prussia and Savoy became kingdoms, Dutch could build and maintain fortresses, and France recognized the English Hanoverian succession. |
| Conflict between King James I and Parliament did not involve | Jame's anti-Spanish policy |
| John Locke | "Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to; and this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage." |
| Francis Bacon | Valid knowledge is discovered from sensory experience and observation, the scientific method |
| artwork movement in painting | Baroque |
| The Hohenzollerns of Prussia were known for | the unification of Germany |
| Catherine II of Russia and Frederick II of Prussia both | strengthened absolute rule |
| Cladue Monet | Impressionist style |
| "South Sea Bubble" | inflated confidence in a British corporation of investors that collapsed |
| 19th century outbreaks of revolution occurred in | France, Prussia, Austria-Hungary |
| 19th century British imperial policy | expanding British control in southern Africa, establishing trading posts in India, opening China to western trade, and promoting the sale of opium in China |
| steam powered shipe, medical advancements, improved weapons, and nationalists movements in Western Europe | contributing factors to European territorial expansion |
| British North American Act | allowed Canada to administer its own affairs |
| Indian suspicions that the British wanted to stifle native religions, rumors rifle cartridges contained animal fats, British efforts to eliminate sati, and Indian nationalism and objections to Britian's annexing territory | Causes of the Sepoy Rebellion |
| Baron de Montesquieu | English adopted responsible government because their northern climate made them enthusiastic and hearty |
| Russian 19th century foreign policy was not centered around | establishing colonies in North Africa |
| British Liberal and Conservative Parties | both supported home rule for Ireland |
| Romanticism | idealizing nature, personal freedom, and the exotic |
| When was the House of Lords power permanently reduced? | by 1911 |
| Kulturkampf | universial suffrage to Prussian upper house |
| What allowed serfs independence from their landowning nobles but kept them tied to villages? | The 1861 Emancipation Edict of Russia |
| The assassination of Czar Alexander II | People's Will |
| Deism | a reaction to religious wars, subjected religion to the scientific processes, emphasized the role of reason in finding truth, and was a religion all mankind could accept without controversy |
| "a geographical expression" | No political entity could correctly be called Italy |
| Who gained social and political attention by using radical and somewhat violent tactics | The Women's Social and Political Union |
| compulsory conscription began | Germany |
| What caused Great Britian to join WWI? | Germany invaded neutral Belgium |
| What was Woodrow Wilson's goals for the post war world? | The Fourteen Points |
| When Germany invaded Poland in the early 20th century, what did this signal? | The outbreak of WWII |
| In 1941 in WWII | Germany began it's assult on the USSR and Japan attacked the United States |
| What isolated and disenfranchised Germany's Jews? | the Nuremberg Laws |
| What did the Marshall Plan do? | It promised extensive financial aid to European nations sponsored by the United States to get nations receiving aid to pledge cooperation |
| Who established a strong Communist force in East Germany? | Walter Ulbrichht |
| Bretton Woods Conference | economic stability after WWII |
| What caused France to quit their colonial efforts in Indochina in 1954? | It lost the battle at Dien Bien Phu |
| Cause: Soviet blockade of West Berlin | Effect: NATO created |
| nations who joined together to recapture the Suez Canal in 1956 | Isreal, France, and Britain |
| In October 1957 in the USSR | Sputnik was launched |
| phinosophical disputes over abou the meaning and path of the Communist expansion lead to | the Sino-Soviet split |
| Cause: Louis XVI dismissed Jacques Necker | Effect: Storming of the Bastille |
| Cause: Dreyfus case | Effect: a long lasting political divide between liberal and conservative thinkers in France that weakened The Third Republic until it was defeated by Germany |
| Alexander II of Russia | reformed serfdom practices, improved the army, reorganized the judicial system, and "Russified" Poland |
| Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud | discounted the sole importance of rationality and reason |
| Causes for the outbreak of WWI | Bismarck's dismissial of William II of Germany, Serbian nationalism, imperialistic competition in Africa, and Moroccan Independence |
| Lenin and Maxism disagreed | Lenin criticized labor unions for their focus on short-term goals rather and long-term commitment to revolutionary change |
| What America joined WWI | Britian exaggurated stories of German atrocities against civilians, the Germans followed a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman telegram angered Americans |
| In the beginning of WWI | nations involved thought the war would end soon with a quick victory |
| why the Russian provisional government failed under Kerensky | it continued Russia's participation in WWI |
| What was Lenin's program to appease peasants and increase agricultural production? | The New Economic Policy |
| Cause: The Lateran Pact of 1929 | Effect: a virtual alliance between the Catholic Church and Mussolini |
| What did the Beer Hall Putsch provide Hitler with? | a political forum to popularize him ideas through |
| Neville Chamberlain's "peace in our time" | The Munich Pact |
| Adolf Hitler's speech most likely would have addressed the following ideas in a speech | criticism of the Treaty of Versailles, promoting economic status of working women, criticism of the Weimer Republic, praise for German nationalism, and promises of increased employment |
| a decisive surprise attack against the USSR | Germany's Operation Barbarossa |
| the American response to the attempted Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe | Truman Doctrine |
| Nikita Khruschev | denounced the abuses of Stalin |
| What was not a part of the Weimer constitution in Germany? | the suspension of religious tolerance |
| In 1933, the Reichstag Fire was a turning point in Hitler's rise to power because it allowed Hitler to prey upon the German fear of communist infiltration, which allowed him to do what? | It increased public acceptance of his suspension of civil liberities |
| The Spanish Civil War influenced which artist to paint Guernica? | Pablo Picasso |
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