AP European History Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2022

AP European History Exam Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2022 Absolutism The theory that the monarch is supreme and can exercise full and complete power unilaterally Abstract Expressionism No identifiable subject matter. Expresses feelings of artists. Emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values. Pollack Act of Union 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 The first chancellor of West Germany; he was able to establish a stable democratic government () Gustavus Adolphus Swedish Lutheran king who won victories for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years' War and lost his life in one of the battles () Agatir 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 , 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 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 futureAge of Metternich 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 first phase of the french revolution-tennis court oath, national assembly, etc Age of Rousseau second phase of the French Revolution-Republic, execution of Louis, Committee of Public Safety, Reign of Terror, Thermidorian Rebellion, Directory Agricultural Revolution 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 Reforming czar who emancipated the serfs and introduced some measure of representative local government () Alexander III Politically reactionary czar who promoted economic modernization of Russia () Algecira 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 An eight-year struggle by Algeria to secure independence from French colonial control; the goal was finally achieved in 1962 American Revolution 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) France prior to the French Revolution Anschluss The union of Austria with Germany, resulting from the occupation of Austria by the German army in 1938 Appeasement 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