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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Kulaks
Utilitarianism
Korean War
2. 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.
ancien regime
Girondins
Napoleon
John Stuart Mill
3. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Peter the Great
Potsdam
Treaty of Tilsit
4. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Assembly of Notables
Ptolemy
Gottfried Leibniz
5. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Edict of Nantes
William Gladstone
Leipzig
6. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Final Solution
Lusitania
Revolution from Above
Lateran Pact
7. 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.
Johannes Kepler
Panther
Girondins
Thomas Malthus
8. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Johannes Kepler
Giuseppe Mazzini
Robert Koch
9. 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
Charles Montesquieu
Copernicus
Isaac Newton
Mary Wollstonecraft
10. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Assembly of Notables
Napoleon
English Civil War
11. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Battle of Adowa
Peter the Great
French Revolution of 1848
Edict of Nantes
12. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Napoleon
Louis XIV
Ottoman empire dissolved
Chartist Movement
13. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Edinburgh
Nikita Khrushchev
Frederick the Great
Andrew Carnegie
14. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Greek Revolution
Panther
Revolution from Above
Edict of Nantes
15. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Korean War
William Gladstone
Secularization
Louis Philippe I
16. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Home Rule
Nazi
War of Austrian Succession
Kaiser Wilhelm I
17. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Crimean War
Red Russians
Petition of Rights
Frederick the Great
18. 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.
ultraroyalists
Concert of Europe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tories
19. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Stalingrad
John Rockefeller
Eastern Question
Thermidorian Reaction
20. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Joseph Stalin
John F. Kennedy
Gottfried Leibniz
Emmanuel Sieyes
21. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Holy Alliance
Girondins
Louis Philippe I
22. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Eastern Question
Battle of Adowa
Directory
Easter Rising
23. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Crimean War
White Russians
Russian Revolution
Berlin Conference
24. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Seven Weeks' War
Petition of Rights
John Stuart Mill
Nazi
25. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Soviet-Afghan War
Charles Montesquieu
Potsdam
26. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Lusitania
Cecil Rhodes.
Dutch Republic
27. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Battle of the Somme
William Gladstone
Revolution from Above
ultraroyalists
28. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
ancien regime
Black Shirt March
Andrew Carnegie
Treaty of Frankfurt
29. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Peter the Great
Seven Weeks' War
Dulce et Decorum Est
William Gladstone
30. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
soviets
Nazi
Treaty of London
ultraroyalists
31. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Black Shirt March
Continental System
Fascist Party
32. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Louis XIV
Spanish Civil War
Copernicus
33. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Assembly of Notables
soviets
English Civil War
X-Ray
34. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Public Health Act
Free French
Brezhnev Doctrine
Edward Gibbon
35. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Kronstadt
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Axis Powers
Fascist Party
36. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Russo-Japanese War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Treaty of London
37. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Whigs
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Lenin and Trotsky
Paris Commune
38. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Johannes Kepler
Utilitarianism
Crimean War
39. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Benito Mussolini
Bradenburg-Prussia
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Vesalius
40. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Revolution from Above
Austro-Piedmontese War
Vesalius
Thomas Malthus
41. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Petition of Rights
Central Powers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Edward Gibbon
Catherine the Great
Galileo Galilei
43. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Holy Alliance
John Stuart Mill
'Turnip' Townsend
44. 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.
Final Solution
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Nikita Khrushchev
Blaise Pascal
45. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Sergei Witte
William and Catherine Booth
Lusitania
Jacobins
46. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Petition of Rights
Oliver Cromwell
Edict of Nantes
Potsdam
47. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Korean War
William Gladstone
48. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Charles Albert
Count Cavour
Russian Revolution
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.
John F. Kennedy
Thermidorian Reaction
ancien regime
Congress of Vienna
50. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Enigma
Rene Descartes
Edmund Burke