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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Charles Albert
Thermidor
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
2. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Quadruple Alliance
Zimmerman telegram
English Civil War
John Stuart Mill
3. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Peter the Great
Russo-Japanese War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Edmund Burke
4. 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.'
Rene Descartes
Bishop Bossuet
Holy Alliance
Russian Revolution
5. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Spanish Civil War
Boer War
Isaac Newton
Marshall plan
6. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Russo-Japanese War
Ptolemy
7. Discovered radium.
Peter the Great
Easter Rising
Treaty of London
Marie Curie
8. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Social Democratic Party
Continental System
Denis Diderot
Louis XIV
9. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Count Cavour
William Gladstone
Denis Diderot
10. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Denis Diderot
Potsdam
Mary Wollstonecraft
11. 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
Heinrich Himmler
Vladimir Lenin
War of Austrian Succession
English Civil War
12. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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13. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
ultraroyalists
Kulaks
Committee of Public Safety
Triple Alliance
14. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Franco-Prussian War
Nikita Khrushchev
Oliver Cromwell
15. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
John F. Kennedy
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Battle of Adowa
Catherine the Great
16. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Louis Philippe I
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin and Trotsky
17. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Treaty of London
Thermidor
Dulce et Decorum Est
18. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Russo-Japanese War
New Economic Policy
Utilitarianism
19. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Galileo Galilei
Revolution from Above
Edinburgh
20. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Spanish Civil War
Isaac Newton
Stalingrad
21. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Factory Act
Edmund Burke
22. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Emmeline Prankhurst
Charles Montesquieu
Jacobins
23. 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
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24. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Napoleon
Gottfried Leibniz
Seven Weeks' War
Edward Gibbon
25. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Giuseppe Mazzini
First and Second International
Red Russians
Girondins
26. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Franco-Prussian War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Lateran Pact
27. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Boer War
New Economic Policy
Final Solution
Soviet-Afghan War
28. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Revisionists
Declaration of Pillnitz
Vladimir Lenin
Greek Revolution
29. 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
John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft
Battle of the Somme
Battle of the Bulge
30. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Battle of the Somme
Quadruple Alliance
Tories
31. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Secularization
Peter the Great
The Glorious Revolution
32. 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.
Third International
soviets
Allied Powers
Dual Monarchy
33. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Kronstadt
New Economic Policy
Home Rule
Thomas Malthus
34. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Allied Powers
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Fascist Party
Leipzig
35. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Paris Commune
Panther
English Civil War
soviets
36. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Secularization
Robert Koch
Austro-Piedmontese War
Greek Revolution
37. 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.
Robert Koch
Declaration of Pillnitz
Black Shirt March
Seven Year's War
38. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Battle of the Somme
X-Ray
Holy Alliance
Battle of Adowa
39. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Triple Alliance
Edward Gibbon
Louis Philippe I
Spanish-American War
40. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Assembly of Notables
Daimler and Benz
Emmanuel Sieyes
Lusitania
41. 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.
soviets
Tories
Jean Paul Marat
Robert Koch
42. 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.
Lusitania
The Glorious Revolution
Joseph II
Charles X
43. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Secularization
First and Second International
Committee of Public Safety
Whigs
44. 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.
Charles Albert
English Civil War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Panther
45. 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.
Dual Monarchy
Reform Bill
Eastern Question
Leipzig
46. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Georges Jacques Danton
Galileo Galilei
Soviet-Afghan War
47. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Utilitarianism
Sergei Witte
Theodore Herzl
48. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treaty of Paris
Concert of Europe
Fabian Society
49. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Axis Powers
Sergei Witte
Ottoman empire dissolved
Georges Jacques Danton
50. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Social Democratic Party
Legislative Assembly
First and Second International
Allied Powers