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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? |
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Who was Michel de Montaigne? |
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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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what leader during the Protestant Reformation was considered to be "left-winged?" |
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What was one material not imported to Europe from the Americas? |
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Free market is closely associated with what term? |
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People during the scientific revolution believed what about society? |
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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? |
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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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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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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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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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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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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? |
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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? |
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What was the military and commercial league set up on the north coast of Germany? |
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Renaissance technological innovation included what? |
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What energy source powered the Industrial Revolution? |
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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? |
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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? |
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What form of entertainment became popular for large masses of people? |
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Amusement parks and carnivals. |
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The "Father of Tourism" in England was who? |
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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? |
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The leader of the women's suffrage movement in England was who? |
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Who looked into the disintegrative processes within atoms? |
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What did Friedrich Nietzsche believe? |
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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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A Bolshevik secret police unit used to murder and terrorize opponents. |
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Hitler had a firm belief in what? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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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? |
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The need for disregarding the Communist Manifesto. |
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Immigration to major cities was driven by what? |
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Daughters were expected to do what until married? |
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Most European educational systems were what? |
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Anarchists attempted reforms through what? |
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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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