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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. 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






2. Soviet counterpart to NATO






3. 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.






4. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.






5. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.






6. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.






7. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.






8. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.






9. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.






10. 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


11. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.






12. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)






13. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.






14. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.






15. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.






16. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.






17. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION






18. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.






19. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.






20. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.






21. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.






22. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.






23. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'






24. 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.'






25. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.






26. 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.






27. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.






28. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.






29. 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).






30. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.






31. 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.






32. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.






33. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.






34. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.






35. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.






36. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.






37. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.






38. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.






39. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP






40. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender






41. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.






42. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.






43. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.






44. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.






45. 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


46. 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






47. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.






48. Founded the Salvation Army






49. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.






50. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.