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Review of ALL AP European History! Super Fun!
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The mother of all AP Euro reviews...from the Black Death to the Maastricht Treaty
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1
The first major European nation to begin to create a welfare state was ________.
Spain
Great Britain
France
Germany
2
Many victims of the Reign of Terror were subject to this “humane” form of execution.
electrocution
hanging
guillotine
poisoning
3
The major powers at the Congress of Vienna included ________.
Russia, France, Italy, and Great Britain
russia, France, Austria, and Great Britain
Prussia, Austria, France, and Italy
Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain
4
Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted __________.
to expand the German Empire by gaining territory
a navy and colonies like Britain’s
to forge alliances with Russia and France
to become more isolated
5
The term
Anschluss
refers to the ________.
union of Austria with Germany in 1938
shared tradition of anti-Semitism in Austria and Germany
alliance of Germany, Japan,and Italy
German invasion of Poland
6
In the peace talks that ended World War I, Germany________.
negotiated a few minor concessions
retained the right tostation troops west of the Rhine River
negotiated several major concessions
was forced to accept terms dictated by the victors
7
Who called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”?
U.S. President Jimmy Carter
U.S. President Ronald Reagan
Pope John Paul II
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
8
Napoleon III’s primary goal in redesigning Paris was to ________.
deflect attention away from his social policies
attract new residents
make it less protester-friendly
pacify reformers
9
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was proclaimed by ________.
the Directory
the First Estate
Louis XVI
the National Constituent Assembly
10
Who sponsored Genoese adventurer Christopher Columbus?
Archduke Phillip
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
King Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon
11
He wrote "Ulysses", a stream of consciousness novel.
Woolf
Joyce
Marx
Drake
12
The most famous surrealist painter is probably this man:
Picasso
Dali
Buchamp
Machiavelli
13
The scientific fact that the orbits of the planets are elliptical was discovered by ________.
Tycho Brahe
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
14
What field of science most influenced racial thinking at the end of the nineteenth century?
medicine
chemistry
physics
biology
15
One of the central features of the Romantic movement in Germany was the emergence of ________.
communism
nationalism
liberalism
anarchism
16
He came up with the philosophy of existentialism
Joyce
Sartre
Medici
Nietzsche
17
Proletarianization was closely linked to _______ and______.
industrialization; urbanization
poverty; serfdom
the elite lifestyle; landowning
enclosures; the rural economy
18
The revolutions of 1848 began in ________.
France
Austria
Great Britain
Germany
19
The Roman Catholic Church recognized the need for reform and met from 1545–1563 at the _______.
Diet of Worms
Council of Trent
Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Augsburg
20
According to advocates of the “divine right of kings,” kings could be judged only by ________.
fellow monarchs
God
the people
the nobility
21
What was the most important problem in the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
the couple had different religious views
the couple lived in different countries
Catherine had been raised in Spain
Henry VIII needed a male heir
22
What English humanist wrote a famous book called
Utopia
?
Thomas Hobbes
Henry VIII
Thomas More
Roger Bacon
23
Baroque art became associated with ________.
Roman Catholicism
popular Protestantism
the Renaissance
English nobility
24
The French monarchy was hostile towards Protestants until ________.
Elizabeth I provided financial and military support
the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Henry of Navarre came to power
25
The single most powerful European political ideology proved to be ________.
nationalism
communism
liberalism
republicanism
26
Which of these men ruled the French Second Empire?
Napoleon III
Charles X
Louis Phillippe
Napoleon Bonaparte
27
In Spain, Napoleon faced________.
guerrilla warfare
well-organized military forces
harsh winter conditions
a powerful navy
28
He was the Soviet leader identified with Perestroika.
Gorbachev
Brezhnev
Rusev
Khrushchev
29
Which of these best explains the Great Purges?
They were a natural outgrowth of the Bolshevik takeover.
They were largely the product of Stalin’s fears and goals
They were the kind of revolution foreseen by Marx.
They were a reaction to the Versailles settlement.
30
John Locke argues against absolute monarchy in his ________.
Second Treatise of Civil Government
Common Sense
A Counterblast toTobacco
Leviathan
31
A key provision of the 1991 Maastricht Treaty called for ________.
the establishment of uniform wages in all the EU countries
new laws to enforce gender equality in the workplace
the creation of a unified currency
the creation of a police force to fight the drug trade
32
The most important political development in Europe between 1848 and 1914 was ________.
the leadership of Bismarck
The creation of the Dual Monarchy
German unification
Italian unification
33
The monarch that most exemplifies enlightened absolutism was ________.
Maria Theresa
Joseph II
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
34
The Hundred Years' War took place primarily in __________.
Germany
The Netherlands
England
France
35
The
Concert of Europe
refers to the ________.
an arrangement for resolving mutual foreign policy issues
January 1820 outbreak of the Spanish revolution
new Russian, Austrian, Prussian, and British alliance
1814 restoration of the French monarchy
36
Who was known as the "father of humanism?"
Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarch
Giovanni Boccaccio
Michelangelo Buonarroti
37
The Open Door Policy ________.
was strongly supported by Russia
divided China into sections
allowed China to control its own trade
allowed all nations to trade in China on equal terms
38
What is William of Orange known for?
He led the Turks against Spain.
He led the movement for the independence of the Netherlands
He was the captain of the Spanish Armada.
Along with the Duke of Alba, he suppressed Protestant revolt
39
Cavour’s methods to achieve Italian unification would coincide with this philosopher’s ideology
Machiavelli
Descartes
Robespierre
Locke
40
The Thermidorian Reaction was a product of reaction to what two developments?
the Reign of Terror and the power of the sans-culottes
the deaths of Robespierre and Danton
the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Great Fear
the Tennis Court Oath and the Reign of Terror
41
The Holocaust claimed the greatest number of victims from ________.
Poland
Germany
Hungary
Russia
42
The declaration of Napoleon as Emperor of France was ratified by ________.
The Directory
a plebiscite
a consul of the republic
a voice vote in the Assembly
43
the 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia was led by ________.
Lech Wałęsa
Nicolae Ceausescu
Gustav Husak
Václav Havel
44
The term “Machiavellian” has become synonymous with ________.
welfare policies
slow decision making
tools made by machinists
ruthless political expediency
45
The 1935 Nuremberg laws ________.
nationalized all banks and factories
stripped German Jews of their citizenship
established a police state in Germany
were modeled after the Soviet New Economic Policy
46
Who were the supporters of Charles I and Parliament in the English Civil War?
the Puritans and Anglicans respectively
the Reds and the Whites respectively
the Cavaliers and the Roundheads respectively
the Roundheads and the Puritans respectively
47
The Reformation in Zurich was led by ________.
Henry of Navarre
John Calvin
Martin Luther
Ulrich Zwingli
48
The American policy to resist the extension of Soviet expansion is called __________.
constraint
containment
constriction
restraint
49
Which of the following would be an example of socialist realism?
a photo documentary of writers
a painting of university professors
a poster depicting factory workers
a collage of headlines about socialism
50
The most important political thought of the Enlightenment occurred in ________.
Great Britain
Prussia
France
Italy
51
At the time of the Yalta Conference, Eastern Europe was occupied by ________.
Nazi Germany
the Soviet Union
Great Britain
the United States
52
Under Lenin’s New Economic Policy,________.
peasants did not have to pay taxes
the government restricted free trade
private economic enterprise was permitted
peasants hoarded grain
53
Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany________.
after a campaign of selective assassination
after a heated lawsuit
after a brief, but bloody, revolution
by legal means
54
Cosimo de’ Medici brought stability to which city after his rise to power in 1434?
Genoa
Venice
Rome
Florence
55
The Black Death found its way into Europe via __________.
Scandinavia
Spain
North Africa
Italy
56
One of the primary motives for the New Imperialism was the ________.
desire to bring Western values to non-Western areas
belief an empire was necessary for a great power
need for new sources of raw materials
desire to promote Christianity among non-Westerners
