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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.






2. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






3. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.






4. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.






5. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.






6. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.






7. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.






8. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.






9. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.






10. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.






11. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.






12. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.






13. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.






14. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.






15. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.






16. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.






17. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.






18. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.






19. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.






20. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.






21. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution






22. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.






23. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy






24. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.






25. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.






26. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.






27. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.






28. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.






29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.






30. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.






31. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.






32. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.






33. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.






34. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.






35. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.






36. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.






37. A military draft






38. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME






39. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.






40. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.






41. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.






42. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.






43. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.






44. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.






45. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'






46. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.






47. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs

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48. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.






49. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.






50. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF







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