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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
James Watt
Jean Paul Marat
Factory Act
Emelyn Pugachev
2. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Battle of the Bulge
Lenin and Trotsky
White Russians
3. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
War of Austrian Succession
Vichy Regime
Ferdinand VII
Nikita Khrushchev
4. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
5. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
6. 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
Panther
English Civil War
Gottfried Leibniz
Home Rule
7. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
8. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Sir Francis Bacon
Edward Gibbon
Treaty of Paris
Quadruple Alliance
9. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Edmund Burke
Edict of Nantes
Denis Diderot
ultraroyalists
10. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Charles X
Edinburgh
Transcendentalists
War of Austrian Succession
11. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Adam Smith
Emmanuel Sieyes
British East India Company
Joseph Stalin
12. 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.
Black Shirt March
Peter the Great
Treaty of Tilsit
Emmanuel Sieyes
13. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Charles Montesquieu
Charles X
Zimmerman telegram
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
14. 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.
Tories
Brezhnev Doctrine
Paracelsus
Battle of the Somme
15. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Assembly of Notables
Enclosure movement
William and Catherine Booth
Dulce et Decorum Est
16. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Social Democratic Party
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Johannes Kepler
Gottfried Leibniz
17. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Heinrich Himmler
Nikita Khrushchev
Ferdinand VII
18. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Emmeline Prankhurst
William Gladstone
Spanish-American War
Kulaks
19. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Jean Paul Marat
Reform Bill
Revolution from Above
Spanish Civil War
20. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Copernicus
Joseph Stalin
Crimean War
21. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Marshall plan
Adolf Eichmann
Cecil Rhodes.
vanguard
22. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Marie Curie
Transcendentalists
Lusitania
Tories
23. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Utilitarianism
Oliver Cromwell
Russo-Japanese War
24. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
William and Catherine Booth
Frederick the Great
Vladimir Lenin
Emelyn Pugachev
25. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Mary Wollstonecraft
Marie Curie
Edinburgh
26. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Social Democratic Party
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Berlin Conference
Revolution from Above
27. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Petition of Rights
Fabian Society
Treaty of Tilsit
Enigma
28. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Girondins
conscription
Brezhnev Doctrine
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
29. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Sergei Witte
Declaration of Pillnitz
Adolf Eichmann
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
30. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Sir Francis Bacon
Franco-Prussian War
ancien regime
Paracelsus
31. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
ancien regime
conscription
Triple Entente
32. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Axis Powers
Charles X
Potsdam
Petition of Rights
33. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Adam Smith
Factory Act
New Economic Policy
34. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Gottfried Leibniz
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Thermidorian Reaction
ancien regime
35. 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.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Louis Philippe I
John Stuart Mill
Lateran Pact
36. 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.
Boer War
Louis XIV
Blaise Pascal
Tories
37. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Charles X
Revisionists
Joseph Stalin
Ptolemy
38. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Catherine the Great
Zimmerman telegram
Andrew Carnegie
Kronstadt
39. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
William Gladstone
Factory Act
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Leipzig
40. Discovered radium.
Third International
Benjamin Disraeli
Greek Revolution
Marie Curie
41. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
ancien regime
Franco-Prussian War
soviets
42. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Denis Diderot
Continental System
Friedrich Nietzsche
X-Ray
43. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Emmanuel Sieyes
Secularization
Vesalius
Theodore Herzl
44. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Edinburgh
Sir Francis Bacon
Stalingrad
45. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Enigma
Joseph Stalin
James Watt
46. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Blaise Pascal
ultraroyalists
Francois Voltaire
47. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Chartist Movement
Legislative Assembly
Catherine the Great
Ottoman empire dissolved
48. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Declaration of Pillnitz
Absolutism
Emelyn Pugachev
Russian Revolution
49. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Panther
Nazi
Factory Act
Benito Mussolini
50. A military draft
conscription
Continental System
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Third International