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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Absolutism
Lenin and Trotsky
Thermidorian Reaction
Ottoman empire dissolved
2. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Marie Curie
Declaration of Pillnitz
Potsdam
soviets
3. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Daimler and Benz
Paracelsus
Theodore Herzl
Triple Entente
4. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Edmund Burke
Greek Revolution
Thomas Malthus
First and Second International
5. 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.
Russian Revolution
Concert of Europe
Louis Philippe I
Third International
6. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Stalingrad
Andrew Carnegie
Free French
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
7. 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.
Louis XIV
Rene Descartes
Marshall plan
Triple Entente
8. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Spanish-American War
Tories
The War of Jenkin's Ear
conscription
9. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Joseph II
Andrew Carnegie
ultraroyalists
10. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Committee of Public Safety
Thermidor
'Turnip' Townsend
Crimean War
11. 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.
Stalingrad
Red Russians
Triple Entente
Catherine the Great
12. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Congress of Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman empire dissolved
Holy Alliance
13. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Lusitania
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of Tilsit
14. 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
Axis Powers
The Glorious Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Allied Powers
15. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Quadruple Alliance
Sir Francis Bacon
Herbert Spencer
Blaise Pascal
16. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Count Cavour
Eastern Question
Gottfried Leibniz
17. 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
Quadruple Alliance
Jean Paul Marat
Rene Descartes
North German Confederation
18. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Louis Philippe I
Emmeline Prankhurst
Vladimir Lenin
Seven Year's War
19. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Nazi
John Rockefeller
Whigs
Assembly of Notables
20. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
fire at the Reichstag
Secularization
James Watt
21. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Galileo Galilei
Korean War
Emelyn Pugachev
Thermidor
22. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Giuseppe Mazzini
North German Confederation
Andrew Carnegie
23. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Atlantic Charter
Andrew Carnegie
X-Ray
Austro-Piedmontese War
24. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Isaac Newton
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
fire at the Reichstag
Benito Mussolini
25. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Dutch Republic
Paris Commune
Kulaks
Free French
26. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Russo-Japanese War
Edinburgh
Tories
27. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
Benjamin Disraeli
Zimmerman telegram
Copernicus
New Economic Policy
28. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Dual Monarchy
Adolf Eichmann
29. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Thomas Malthus
Copernicus
Assembly of Notables
30. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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31. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Thirty Years' War
Thermidor
Emmanuel Sieyes
Enigma
32. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Emmeline Prankhurst
Frederick the Great
Concert of Europe
33. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
James Watt
Enclosure movement
Stalingrad
Declaration of Pillnitz
34. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Cecil Rhodes.
Potsdam
35. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Home Rule
Robert Koch
Count Cavour
John Rockefeller
36. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Fabian Society
Gottfried Leibniz
Napoleon
Louis Philippe I
37. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Central Powers.
John Stuart Mill
Gottfried Leibniz
Black Shirt March
38. 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.
Copernicus
Edict of Nantes
Heinrich Himmler
Franco-Prussian War
39. Extermination of the Jews.
William and Catherine Booth
Thermidor
Final Solution
Absolutism
40. 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
Galileo Galilei
Spanish Civil War
Potsdam
Giuseppe Mazzini
41. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Holy Alliance
Russian Revolution
Berlin Conference
ancien regime
42. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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43. 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
Vesalius
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kronstadt
Axis Powers
44. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Ptolemy
William and Catherine Booth
Charles Montesquieu
45. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Easter Rising
Absolutism
The War of Jenkin's Ear
46. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Galileo Galilei
Oliver Cromwell
Continental System
Blaise Pascal
47. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Georges Jacques Danton
Utilitarianism
John Rockefeller
Tories
48. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Fascist Party
Louis Philippe I
British East India Company
Austria-Hungary
49. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Congress of Vienna
Committee of Public Safety
Fascist Party
Austro-Hungarian Empire
50. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Louis Philippe I
Legislative Assembly
Galileo Galilei
Triple Alliance