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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Congress of Vienna
Francois Voltaire
Joseph II
Marshall plan
2. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Social Democratic Party
Warsaw Pact
Cecil Rhodes.
John Stuart Mill
3. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Central Powers.
Red Russians
Lenin and Trotsky
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
fire at the Reichstag
Benito Mussolini
Thermidorian Reaction
Korean War
5. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Eastern Question
Benjamin Disraeli
Bishop Bossuet
Potsdam
6. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Battle of Adowa
Bishop Bossuet
Atlantic Charter
Sergei Witte
7. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Franco-Prussian War
Public Health Act
Enigma
Paris Commune
8. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Kronstadt
Factory Act
Giuseppe Mazzini
9. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Quadruple Alliance
Cecil Rhodes.
Factory Act
Russo-Japanese War
10. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Isaac Newton
Revolution from Above
Battle of Adowa
11. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Franco-Prussian War
Robert Koch
John F. Kennedy
Francois Voltaire
12. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Austria-Hungary
Black Shirt March
Charles Albert
Benito Mussolini
13. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Adolf Eichmann
Edict of Nantes
William Gladstone
14. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Quadruple Alliance
Adam Smith
Johannes Kepler
conscription
15. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Paris Commune
British East India Company
Jean Paul Marat
Quadruple Alliance
16. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Louis XIV
Battle of Adowa
Georges Jacques Danton
X-Ray
17. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Copernicus
Fascist Party
Joseph II
John Rockefeller
18. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Seven Weeks' War
English Civil War
Korean War
19. Extermination of the Jews.
Atlantic Charter
French Revolution of 1848
Berlin Conference
Final Solution
20. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Francois Voltaire
Triple Alliance
Steel
Vladimir Lenin
21. 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.
Nazi
Seven Weeks' War
North German Confederation
Allies
22. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Dual Monarchy
John F. Kennedy
Frederick the Great
Charles X
23. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Triple Alliance
Bradenburg-Prussia
Home Rule
Charles Albert
24. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Legislative Assembly
Final Solution
Fascist Party
25. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
ancien regime
Secularization
Battle of the Bulge
Soviet-Afghan War
26. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Panther
Emelyn Pugachev
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edmund Burke
27. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Herbert Spencer
Charles Albert
Whigs
Korean War
28. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Catherine the Great
Giuseppe Mazzini
X-Ray
29. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Bishop Bossuet
Russian Revolution
Thermidorian Reaction
Charles Montesquieu
30. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Galileo Galilei
War of Austrian Succession
vanguard
Congress of Vienna
31. Founded the Salvation Army
Paris Commune
William and Catherine Booth
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Dual Monarchy
32. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Copernicus
John Locke
Battle of Adowa
33. Greater freedom for Ireland.
John Locke
Enigma
Home Rule
X-Ray
34. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Emmanuel Sieyes
Soviet-Afghan War
Revolution from Above
35. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Brezhnev Doctrine
New Economic Policy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Axis Powers
36. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Daimler and Benz
Congress of Vienna
Kronstadt
Treaty of Tilsit
37. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Labour Party
Holy Alliance
Georges Jacques Danton
38. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Free French
Benjamin Disraeli
Social Democratic Party
Charles Montesquieu
39. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Count Cavour
War of Austrian Succession
Central Powers.
40. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Vesalius
Concert of Europe
Catherine the Great
John Rockefeller
41. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Lateran Pact
Giuseppe Mazzini
Marshall plan
Ferdinand VII
42. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Lusitania
Fascist Party
Oliver Cromwell
Denis Diderot
43. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Congress of Vienna
Public Health Act
Soviet-Afghan War
Allied Powers
44. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Thirty Years' War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Galileo Galilei
Russian Revolution
45. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
conscription
ultraroyalists
Giueseppe Garibaldi
French Revolution of 1848
46. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Nikita Khrushchev
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cecil Rhodes.
Denis Diderot
47. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Isaac Newton
Lateran Pact
Sir Francis Bacon
Nikita Khrushchev
48. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Daimler and Benz
Charles Albert
Boer War
Girondins
49. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Concert of Europe
X-Ray
ancien regime
Heinrich Himmler
50. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Fabian Society
First and Second International
Edict of Nantes
Kaiser Wilhelm I
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