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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
vanguard
Thermidorian Reaction
Denis Diderot
Triple Entente
2. 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.
Herbert Spencer
Public Health Act
Labour Party
Louis XIV
3. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Boer War
Joseph II
Austro-Piedmontese War
Heinrich Himmler
4. 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
Central Powers.
Seven Year's War
Directory
Spanish Civil War
5. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Franz Ferdinand
Whigs
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of Paris
6. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Leipzig
Joseph II
Austro-Piedmontese War
John Rockefeller
7. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Charles Albert
X-Ray
Joseph II
John Rockefeller
8. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Benjamin Disraeli
Benito Mussolini
Leipzig
Chartist Movement
9. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Seven Weeks' War
Francois Voltaire
Social Democratic Party
10. Britain and America
Thermidor
Vladimir Lenin
Reform Bill
Allied Powers
11. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Ptolemy
Rene Descartes
John F. Kennedy
Labour Party
12. 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.
Allied Powers
Panther
Paris Commune
Herbert Spencer
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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Sergei Witte
14. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Easter Rising
Revolution from Above
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
15. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Edmund Burke
Napoleon
Reform Bill
Kulaks
16. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
X-Ray
Battle of Adowa
Sir Francis Bacon
Charles Albert
17. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Red Russians
Charles Albert
Legislative Assembly
Easter Rising
18. 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.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Holy Alliance
Rene Descartes
Ferdinand VII
19. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Vichy Regime
Galileo Galilei
Soviet-Afghan War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
20. (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
Holy Alliance
Soviet-Afghan War
Fabian Society
War of Austrian Succession
21. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Edinburgh
Emmanuel Sieyes
Count Cavour
22. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Vesalius
Isaac Newton
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Treaty of Frankfurt
23. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Thirty Years' War
Social Democratic Party
Benito Mussolini
24. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of Tilsit
Kronstadt
Triple Entente
25. 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.
Frederick the Great
Edinburgh
'Turnip' Townsend
Battle of the Somme
26. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Emmanuel Sieyes
John Locke
White Russians
Secularization
27. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Marshall plan
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Heinrich Himmler
Red Russians
28. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Crimean War
Committee of Public Safety
Absolutism
Potsdam
29. 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.
Sergei Witte
Giuseppe Mazzini
Galileo Galilei
Denis Diderot
30. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Heinrich Himmler
Utilitarianism
Paracelsus
Nazi
31. 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
Jean Paul Marat
Austria-Hungary
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Volksgeist
32. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Stalingrad
Fabian Society
Treaty of London
Easter Rising
33. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Spanish Civil War
Paracelsus
34. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sergei Witte
Dutch Republic
Treaty of Frankfurt
35. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Austro-Piedmontese War
William Gladstone
'Turnip' Townsend
36. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Treaty of Tilsit
Giuseppe Mazzini
fire at the Reichstag
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.
Soviet-Afghan War
Black Shirt March
Charles X
Gottfried Leibniz
38. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
ultraroyalists
Gottfried Leibniz
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Atlantic Charter
39. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
soviets
Austria-Hungary
Austro-Hungarian Empire
John F. Kennedy
40. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Dutch Republic
Sergei Witte
Thirty Years' War
Free French
41. 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.
Rene Descartes
Public Health Act
Crimean War
Petition of Rights
42. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Adam Smith
Utilitarianism
Free French
Austro-Hungarian Empire
43. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Andrew Carnegie
Treaty of London
Herbert Spencer
Cecil Rhodes.
44. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Louis Philippe I
Eastern Question
ancien regime
conscription
45. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
fire at the Reichstag
Thirty Years' War
Vichy Regime
Joseph Stalin
46. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
ancien regime
Enigma
Chartist Movement
ultraroyalists
47. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Lenin and Trotsky
Francois Voltaire
Triple Entente
Sergei Witte
48. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Battle of the Somme
Vichy Regime
Factory Act
Potsdam
49. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Black Shirt March
Thomas Malthus
Enigma
50. 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.
Girondins
conscription
Thirty Years' War
Panther