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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Legislative Assembly
Labour Party
Catherine the Great
2. 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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3. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Battle of the Bulge
Vladimir Lenin
Heinrich Himmler
4. 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
Paris Commune
Jean Paul Marat
Petition of Rights
Joseph Stalin
5. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Sir Francis Bacon
New Economic Policy
Catherine the Great
6. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Joseph II
Emmeline Prankhurst
Dual Monarchy
Lateran Pact
7. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Final Solution
Ottoman empire dissolved
Labour Party
8. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Thermidorian Reaction
Declaration of Pillnitz
Treaty of Paris
Emmeline Prankhurst
9. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Dual Monarchy
Marshall plan
Emelyn Pugachev
Vichy Regime
10. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Ferdinand VII
Enigma
Battle of the Bulge
X-Ray
11. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Seven Year's War
Franco-Prussian War
soviets
12. 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.
Eastern Question
fire at the Reichstag
Thermidorian Reaction
Crimean War
13. 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
Black Shirt March
Girondins
Emelyn Pugachev
14. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Jacobins
French Revolution of 1848
New Economic Policy
15. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
James Watt
Free French
Paris Commune
North German Confederation
16. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Emelyn Pugachev
Vichy Regime
Tories
Austro-Hungarian Empire
17. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Berlin Conference
Easter Rising
Friedrich Nietzsche
18. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Panther
Franz Ferdinand
Heinrich Himmler
Stalingrad
19. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Berlin Conference
Gottfried Leibniz
Eastern Question
ancien regime
20. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Central Powers.
Greek Revolution
Louis Philippe I
Warsaw Pact
21. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Malthus
Reform Bill
Allied Powers
22. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Public Health Act
Galileo Galilei
Legislative Assembly
23. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Charles X
Louis XIV
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Robert Koch
24. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Utilitarianism
British East India Company
John Rockefeller
25. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Ottoman empire dissolved
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
New Economic Policy
26. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Red Russians
Adolf Eichmann
Kulaks
Napoleon
27. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Volksgeist
French Revolution of 1848
Legislative Assembly
28. 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
Warsaw Pact
English Civil War
Sir Francis Bacon
John Rockefeller
29. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Treaty of London
Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Stalin
30. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Absolutism
Oliver Cromwell
Daimler and Benz
31. A military draft
Crimean War
conscription
Zimmerman telegram
Francois Voltaire
32. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Isaac Newton
Secularization
Gottfried Leibniz
Heinrich Himmler
33. 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.
Edict of Nantes
British East India Company
Bishop Bossuet
Panther
34. 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
Enclosure movement
Absolutism
John Locke
Isaac Newton
35. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Gottfried Leibniz
First and Second International
Utilitarianism
36. 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
Spanish-American War
Nikita Khrushchev
ancien regime
Joseph Stalin
37. 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
Paris Commune
Chartist Movement
Charles X
38. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Fabian Society
Nikita Khrushchev
Enclosure movement
Stalingrad
39. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Louis Philippe I
Dulce et Decorum Est
Nikita Khrushchev
40. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Transcendentalists
John Locke
The War of Jenkin's Ear
41. Founded the Salvation Army
Crimean War
William and Catherine Booth
Quadruple Alliance
Home Rule
42. 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.'
Francois Voltaire
Treaty of Frankfurt
Bishop Bossuet
Reform Bill
43. 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.
Free French
Seven Year's War
Congress of Vienna
Allies
44. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Chartist Movement
Allied Powers
Utilitarianism
45. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Crimean War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Utilitarianism
X-Ray
46. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Joseph II
Charles Albert
Enclosure movement
47. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Thermidorian Reaction
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Free French
Bishop Bossuet
48. 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.
Utilitarianism
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Battle of Adowa
War of Austrian Succession
49. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Soviet-Afghan War
Enclosure movement
Herbert Spencer
Benjamin Disraeli
50. 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
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