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What was Martin Luther's basic religious belief?
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Faith is the key to salvation.
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Unification is closely associated with what term?
Definition
Nationalism.
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Who was Michel de Montaigne?
Definition
The best known skeptic of his time.
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What was a result of the English Reformation?
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Establishment of the English monarch as head of the Church of England.
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Who was the major political opponent of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V?
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Francis I of France.
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what leader during the Protestant Reformation was considered to be "left-winged?"
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Thomas Munzer
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What was one material not imported to Europe from the Americas?
Definition
Iron ore.
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Free market is closely associated with what term?
Definition
Capitalism.
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People during the scientific revolution believed what about society?
Definition
Underlying laws govern society.
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What was the main focus of the Council of Trent?
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To reform the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Dutch Republic rose to power because of what?
Definition
Its shipping and commerce.
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What is the main focus of mercantilism?
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Colonies should be acquired as markets and sources of raw materials.
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The revolt against France's centralized authority was called what?
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The Fronde.
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Poland declined because of what?
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The absence of a powerful central authority.
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What did King Frederick William I of Prussia do?
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He built a first-rate army and infused Prussian society with military values.
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Surgeon barbers were known to use what method in their work?
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Blood-letting.
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What career allowed unmarried women the greatest opportunity to exercise literary, artistic, and administrative talents?
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Convents, assistants, secretaries, etc.
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What was the main cause of protests in the Parisian lower classes?
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Increases in the cost of bread.
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What was the main idea of the concept of European balance of power?
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To prevent the dominance of one power in Europe.
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What did both Austria and Prussia do?
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They maintained permanent standing armies.
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The reason France entered the Thirty Years' War was what?
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To reduce the power of the Hapsburgs.
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The Peace of Utrecht altered the balance of power in Europe by doing what?
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Checking French expansion.
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Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety owed much of their power to whom?
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A group of small property owners and wage laborers in Paris who were concerned about food prices.
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An idea spread through Europe during the French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon was what?
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That careers should be open to talented individuals from all classes.
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What was the Romantic movement a reaction to?
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The classicism of an earlier period.
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Queen Elizabeth I of England was called a politique because she believed what?
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Theological controversy should be subordinate to political unity.
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What was not an aspect of life in Western cities in the second half of the 1800s?
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Declining standards of public health and life expectancy.
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Prince Klemens von Metternich used the German Confederation to do what?
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Oppose liberalism and nationalism in central Europe.
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What was the Christian humanism of Erasmus?
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The application of renaissance scholarship to questions of ecclesiastical and moral reform.
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What did Cardinal Richelieu do?
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He strengthened the intendant method of local government.
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Who were the Carbonari?
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Members of a secret revolutionary society.
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Johannes Kepler improved on Copernicus' theories by doing what?
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Demonstrating that planets have elliptical orbits.
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What was a huge social effect during the Industrial Revolution?
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New rhythms of work and leisure.
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What officially marked the beginning of the French Revolution?
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Tennis Court Oath.
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Peter the Great made Russia a great power by doing what?
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Building a new capital where his nobles and merchants were obliged to live.
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The reason why England went back to a monarchy because of Oliver Cromwell's what?
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Inability to establish broad popular support for his government.
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Karl Marx believed what?
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That history moves inevitably through a series of stages culminating in socialism.
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Surrealism has a central theme of what?
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Exploration of dream images and the irrational.
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What was the primary cause for the Hapsburg-Valois Feud?
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The conflicting political ambitions of the two families.
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Why did the Bolshevik government sign the Treaty of Brest with Germany?
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Lenin did not want to risk his limited power through further struggle against a foreign enemy.
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A major consequence of the Opium War in China was what?
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An increase in hostility to Europeans.
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Louis XIV did what to better protect himself from outside influence?
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Moved the government from Paris to Versailles.
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What was closely associated with what?
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The growth of the syndicalist movement.
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The League of Nations was different from the United Nations in what way?
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It did not have as members several of the world's most important industrialized nations.
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What tried to improve the German economy during the Interwar period that actually only devastated it further?
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Inflation and excessive printing of money.
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Hungary, East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia were all members of what?
Definition
The Warsaw Pact.
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Existentialism is characterized by what?
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A buoyant optimism about human existence and perfectibility.
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What did the Second Vatican Council do?
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Promoted the ecumenical movement.
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How were Hungary and Czechoslovakia similar?
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Neither received assistance from the U.S. because they were withing the Soviet sphere of influence.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn was important because why?
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His works were critical of the Soviet system.
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Most Western European countries began to provide what for their people?
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Medical and health insurance.
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What factor was responsible for the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War?
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Trotsky's disciplined and effective Red Army.
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The Italian Renaissance was what?
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The recovery or rebirth of Greek and Roman culture.
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The Medici family controlled finances where?
Definition
In Florence, Italy.
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What was the military and commercial league set up on the north coast of Germany?
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The Hanseatic League.
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Renaissance technological innovation included what?
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Mining and metallurgy.
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What energy source powered the Industrial Revolution?
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Electricity.
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Markets grew to be characterized by what?
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Wealthier urban consumers who desired a growing number of consumer products.
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What country failed to become industrialized?
Definition
Spain.
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Germany replaced Britain as the head of the Industrial Revolution due to what?
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Development of new areas of manufacturing including chemicals and heavy electric machinery.
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Social Darwinism is described as what?
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Racism, and applying the ideas of Darwin to society.
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What is a huge difference between naturalism and realism in literature?
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Naturalism was more pessimistic.
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Naturalistic literature can be found in the novels of whom?
Definition
Emile Zola.
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What form of entertainment became popular for large masses of people?
Definition
Amusement parks and carnivals.
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The "Father of Tourism" in England was who?
Definition
Thomas Cooke.
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What did the Home Rule Act do?
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It aggravated problems between northern and southern Ireland.
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who created the Theory of Relativity?
Definition
Einstein.
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The leader of the women's suffrage movement in England was who?
Definition
Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Who looked into the disintegrative processes within atoms?
Definition
Marie and Pierre Curie.
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What did Friedrich Nietzsche believe?
Definition
Christianity had undermined the creative power of Western civilization.
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What philosopher advocated violence as a means of achieving socialism?
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George Sorel.
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What was the Cheka?
Definition
A Bolshevik secret police unit used to murder and terrorize opponents.
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Hitler had a firm belief in what?
Definition
The idea that the Slavs were inferior people governed by Jews and were worthy of enslavement.
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After the Munich Conference, Hitler soon did what?
Definition
Take the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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The British policy of appeasement aimed to do what?
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Maintain peace and stability in Europe.
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WWII was made possible by what?
Definition
Britain and France's failure to strongly oppose German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
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What did the Pan-German League advocate?
Definition
The political and economic unification of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War led directly to what?
Definition
The Revolution of 1905.
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What was the Second Battle of Marne?
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Germany's final effort to win the war.
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Woodrow Wilson had his heart set on what?
Definition
Deepening America's isolation from European affairs.
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The Treaty of Versailles did what?
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Forced Germany to admit "war guilt" and pay reparations to France.
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Hitler's plan for defeating Britain relied heavily upon what?
Definition
the Luftwaffe.
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Reasons for Japanese expansion included what?
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An expanding population and severe lack of natural resources.
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. focused mainly on what?
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Defeating Germany first and then defeating Japan.
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Eduard Bernstein stressed what?
Definition
The need for disregarding the Communist Manifesto.
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Immigration to major cities was driven by what?
Definition
Job opportunities.
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Daughters were expected to do what until married?
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Work.
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Most European educational systems were what?
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Free and compulsory.
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Anarchists attempted reforms through what?
Definition
Assassinations and other acts of political terrorism.
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Urban areas were pressed to do what?
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Clean up polluted lakes and rivers.
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