AP European History Exam ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Absolutism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The theory that the monarch is supreme and can
exercise full and complete power unilaterally
Abstract Expressionism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- No identifiable subject matter.
Expresses feelings of artists. Emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from
accepted artistic values. Pollack
Act of Union - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1701 act of Parliament uniting England and
Scotland into one kingdom: Great Britain. Intended to strengthen England against France.
Abolished the Scottish Parliament.
Konrad Adenauer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The first chancellor of West Germany; he was
able to establish a stable democratic government (1876-1967)
Gustavus Adolphus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Swedish Lutheran king who won victories
for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years' War and lost his life in one of the battles
(1594-1632)
Agatir - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Moroccan Crisis: The site of the landing of the German
gunboat in Morocco in 1911. William II tried to force the French to make concessions to
Germany in Africa. Like the first crisis, this one drew Britain and France closer together
Age of Absolutism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1650-1789, a purposeful attempt by
European rulers to attend their royal or dynastic control over all aspects of life in the lands
they ruled
Age of Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- time between 1918 and 1950 when the meaning
of lifewas being questioned around the world because of the harsh brutality of World War I,
impersonal attitudes, pessimism for future
,Age of Metternich - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- period of time in Europe in which
reactionaries ruled. During which there was a lot ot opposition and revolt from countries
trying to establish their own freedom such as Poland and Greece
Age of Montesquieu - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- first phase of the french revolution-tennis
court oath, national assembly, etc
Age of Rousseau - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- second phase of the French Revolution-
Republic, execution of Louis, Committee of Public Safety, Reign of Terror, Thermidorian
Rebellion, Directory
Agricultural Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The transformation of farming that
resulted in the eighteenth century from the spread of new crops, improvements in cultivation
techniques and livestock breeding, and consolidation of small holdings into large farms from
which tenants were expelled
Alexander II - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Reforming czar who emancipated the serfs and
introduced some measure of representative local government (1855-1881)
Alexander III - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Politically reactionary czar who promoted
economic modernization of Russia (1881-1894)
Algecira - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Moroccan Crisis: The site of the 1906 conference in
Spain at which German involvement in Morocco was rebuffed by Britain and France acting
in unison
Algerian Liberation Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An eight-year struggle by
Algeria to secure independence from French colonial control; the goal was finally achieved in
1962
American Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- This political revolution began with the
Declaration of Independence in 1776 where American colonists sought to balance the power
between government and the people and protect the rights of citizens in a democracy.
,Ancien Regime (Old Regime) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- France prior to the French
Revolution
Anschluss - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The union of Austria with Germany, resulting from
the occupation of Austria by the German army in 1938
Appeasement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The making of concessions to an adversary in the
hope of avoiding conflict. The term is most often used in reference to the meeting between
Hitler and British prime minister Chamberlain in Munich, where agreement was made, in
September 1938, to cede the Sudetenland (the German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia) to
Germany
Saint Thomas Aquinas - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- He believed that Christianity's premises
and date came from divine revelation rather than from empirical observation. Theology was
considered a science, and he was a scholastic. Wrote Summa Theologica
Aristotelian-Ptolemaic Cosmology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The geocentric view of the
universe that prevailed from the fourth century B.C. to the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and accorded with the church teachings and Scriptures
Armada - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Spanish vessels defeated in the English Channel by an
English fleet, thus preventing Philip II's invasion of England (1588)
Army Order Number 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An order issued to the Russian military
when the provisional government was armed. It deprived officers of their authority and
placed power in elected committees of common soldiers. This led to the collapse of army
discipline
Article 231 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Provision of the Versailles Treaty that blamed
Germany for World War I
Arkwright - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Invented the water frame and steam engine
Atlantic Alliance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Alliance between Thatcher, Kohl, and Reagan
over the control of the Atlantic
, Atlantic Charter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The joint declaration, in August 1941, by
Roosevelt and Churchill, stating common principles for the free world; self-determination,
free choice of government, equal opportunities for all nations for trade, permanent system of
general security and disarmament
Sir Francis Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- He gave science a progressionist bias.
Science has as a practical purpose the goal of human improvement. His greatest achievement
was persuading others that scientific thought must conform to empirical experience. Wrote
Novum Organum
Michael Bakunin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Radical Russian, advocated revolutionary
violence. He believed that revolutionary movements should be led by secret societies who
would seize power, destroy the state, and create a new social order (1814-1876)
Vasco de Balboa - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- First European to reach the Pacific Ocean
Banalites - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fees that French peasants were obligated to pay
landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop, and winepress
Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The sensuous and dynamic style of art of the Counter-
Reformation. Characterized by violent movement, strong emotion and dramatic lighting and
color. Rembrant, Caravaggio
Bastille - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The political prison and armory stormed on July 14,
1789, by Parisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of the troops at Versailles
Bayle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wrote Dictionary. A religous skeptic who attacked
superstition, religous attitudes, and dogmatism.
Simone de Beauvoir - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Existentialist and feminist who has written
on the psychology and social position of women (1908-1986)
Cesare Beccaria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Author of Of Crime and Punishment. He
attacked both torture and capital punishment. He believed criminal justice should ensure
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Absolutism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The theory that the monarch is supreme and can
exercise full and complete power unilaterally
Abstract Expressionism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- No identifiable subject matter.
Expresses feelings of artists. Emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from
accepted artistic values. Pollack
Act of Union - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1701 act of Parliament uniting England and
Scotland into one kingdom: Great Britain. Intended to strengthen England against France.
Abolished the Scottish Parliament.
Konrad Adenauer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The first chancellor of West Germany; he was
able to establish a stable democratic government (1876-1967)
Gustavus Adolphus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Swedish Lutheran king who won victories
for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years' War and lost his life in one of the battles
(1594-1632)
Agatir - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Moroccan Crisis: The site of the landing of the German
gunboat in Morocco in 1911. William II tried to force the French to make concessions to
Germany in Africa. Like the first crisis, this one drew Britain and France closer together
Age of Absolutism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1650-1789, a purposeful attempt by
European rulers to attend their royal or dynastic control over all aspects of life in the lands
they ruled
Age of Anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- time between 1918 and 1950 when the meaning
of lifewas being questioned around the world because of the harsh brutality of World War I,
impersonal attitudes, pessimism for future
,Age of Metternich - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- period of time in Europe in which
reactionaries ruled. During which there was a lot ot opposition and revolt from countries
trying to establish their own freedom such as Poland and Greece
Age of Montesquieu - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- first phase of the french revolution-tennis
court oath, national assembly, etc
Age of Rousseau - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- second phase of the French Revolution-
Republic, execution of Louis, Committee of Public Safety, Reign of Terror, Thermidorian
Rebellion, Directory
Agricultural Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The transformation of farming that
resulted in the eighteenth century from the spread of new crops, improvements in cultivation
techniques and livestock breeding, and consolidation of small holdings into large farms from
which tenants were expelled
Alexander II - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Reforming czar who emancipated the serfs and
introduced some measure of representative local government (1855-1881)
Alexander III - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Politically reactionary czar who promoted
economic modernization of Russia (1881-1894)
Algecira - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Moroccan Crisis: The site of the 1906 conference in
Spain at which German involvement in Morocco was rebuffed by Britain and France acting
in unison
Algerian Liberation Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An eight-year struggle by
Algeria to secure independence from French colonial control; the goal was finally achieved in
1962
American Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- This political revolution began with the
Declaration of Independence in 1776 where American colonists sought to balance the power
between government and the people and protect the rights of citizens in a democracy.
,Ancien Regime (Old Regime) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- France prior to the French
Revolution
Anschluss - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The union of Austria with Germany, resulting from
the occupation of Austria by the German army in 1938
Appeasement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The making of concessions to an adversary in the
hope of avoiding conflict. The term is most often used in reference to the meeting between
Hitler and British prime minister Chamberlain in Munich, where agreement was made, in
September 1938, to cede the Sudetenland (the German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia) to
Germany
Saint Thomas Aquinas - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- He believed that Christianity's premises
and date came from divine revelation rather than from empirical observation. Theology was
considered a science, and he was a scholastic. Wrote Summa Theologica
Aristotelian-Ptolemaic Cosmology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The geocentric view of the
universe that prevailed from the fourth century B.C. to the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and accorded with the church teachings and Scriptures
Armada - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Spanish vessels defeated in the English Channel by an
English fleet, thus preventing Philip II's invasion of England (1588)
Army Order Number 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An order issued to the Russian military
when the provisional government was armed. It deprived officers of their authority and
placed power in elected committees of common soldiers. This led to the collapse of army
discipline
Article 231 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Provision of the Versailles Treaty that blamed
Germany for World War I
Arkwright - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Invented the water frame and steam engine
Atlantic Alliance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Alliance between Thatcher, Kohl, and Reagan
over the control of the Atlantic
, Atlantic Charter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The joint declaration, in August 1941, by
Roosevelt and Churchill, stating common principles for the free world; self-determination,
free choice of government, equal opportunities for all nations for trade, permanent system of
general security and disarmament
Sir Francis Bacon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- He gave science a progressionist bias.
Science has as a practical purpose the goal of human improvement. His greatest achievement
was persuading others that scientific thought must conform to empirical experience. Wrote
Novum Organum
Michael Bakunin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Radical Russian, advocated revolutionary
violence. He believed that revolutionary movements should be led by secret societies who
would seize power, destroy the state, and create a new social order (1814-1876)
Vasco de Balboa - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- First European to reach the Pacific Ocean
Banalites - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fees that French peasants were obligated to pay
landlords for the use of the village mill, bakeshop, and winepress
Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The sensuous and dynamic style of art of the Counter-
Reformation. Characterized by violent movement, strong emotion and dramatic lighting and
color. Rembrant, Caravaggio
Bastille - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The political prison and armory stormed on July 14,
1789, by Parisian city workers alarmed by the king's concentration of the troops at Versailles
Bayle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wrote Dictionary. A religous skeptic who attacked
superstition, religous attitudes, and dogmatism.
Simone de Beauvoir - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Existentialist and feminist who has written
on the psychology and social position of women (1908-1986)
Cesare Beccaria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Author of Of Crime and Punishment. He
attacked both torture and capital punishment. He believed criminal justice should ensure
