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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Nazi
Declaration of Pillnitz
John Locke
Potsdam
2. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
conscription
Fabian Society
Dutch Republic
Francois Voltaire
3. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Heinrich Himmler
Andrew Carnegie
Factory Act
soviets
4. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Austro-Piedmontese War
Adam Smith
Central Powers.
Vesalius
5. 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
Brezhnev Doctrine
War of Austrian Succession
Kulaks
6. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Dulce et Decorum Est
Black Shirt March
Jean Paul Marat
7. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Edict of Nantes
Volksgeist
Axis Powers
Franz Ferdinand
8. 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.
Edinburgh
Holy Alliance
William and Catherine Booth
William Gladstone
9. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Johannes Kepler
Central Powers.
Factory Act
10. 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.
William Gladstone
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Fascist Party
11. 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.
John Locke
Russian Revolution
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
12. 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.
Enclosure movement
The Glorious Revolution
Boer War
Nikita Khrushchev
13. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Emelyn Pugachev
Thirty Years' War
Volksgeist
Nazi
14. 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.
Steel
Battle of Adowa
Theodore Herzl
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
15. 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.
Red Russians
French Revolution of 1848
Leipzig
Nikita Khrushchev
16. 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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17. 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.
soviets
Brezhnev Doctrine
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Directory
18. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Austria-Hungary
Red Russians
fire at the Reichstag
Leipzig
19. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Oliver Cromwell
French Revolution of 1848
ultraroyalists
Berlin Conference
20. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Andrew Carnegie
John F. Kennedy
Labour Party
21. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Emelyn Pugachev
Third International
Giuseppe Mazzini
22. 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
Louis XIV
John F. Kennedy
Franz Ferdinand
23. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
The Glorious Revolution
Jacobins
Lateran Pact
Absolutism
24. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Count Cavour
Russian Revolution
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thirty Years' War
25. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Galileo Galilei
Ottoman empire dissolved
ultraroyalists
Catherine the Great
26. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Louis XIV
Paracelsus
Thirty Years' War
27. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Cecil Rhodes.
Lenin and Trotsky
Treaty of Paris
28. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Holy Alliance
Edinburgh
Treaty of London
Seven Year's War
29. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Stalingrad
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Utilitarianism
30. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Thomas Malthus
Napoleon
Thirty Years' War
Edmund Burke
31. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Edmund Burke
Friedrich Nietzsche
Herbert Spencer
Triple Alliance
32. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Quadruple Alliance
Boer War
Spanish Civil War
Atlantic Charter
33. 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
Factory Act
Greek Revolution
Crimean War
34. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Edmund Burke
Edinburgh
James Watt
Count Cavour
35. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Frederick the Great
Congress of Vienna
Copernicus
vanguard
36. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Seven Year's War
Thermidor
Warsaw Pact
37. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
White Russians
John Stuart Mill
Boer War
Sergei Witte
38. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
War of Austrian Succession
Georges Jacques Danton
Galileo Galilei
39. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Atlantic Charter
Daimler and Benz
Factory Act
40. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Edict of Nantes
Louis XIV
Ottoman empire dissolved
41. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Treaty of London
'Turnip' Townsend
Edinburgh
42. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Volksgeist
Allied Powers
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
43. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Crimean War
William and Catherine Booth
Boer War
44. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Emmanuel Sieyes
John Locke
Catherine the Great
45. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Charles X
Absolutism
Peter the Great
Nazi
46. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Panther
Fascist Party
Declaration of Pillnitz
47. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Theodore Herzl
John Locke
Allies
Declaration of Pillnitz
48. 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.'
Robert Koch
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fabian Society
Warsaw Pact
49. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Thermidor
Treaty of London
Allied Powers
British East India Company
50. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Marie Curie
Lenin and Trotsky
Axis Powers
Greek Revolution