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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Vesalius
Cecil Rhodes.
Free French
First and Second International
2. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Denis Diderot
Spanish-American War
Austria-Hungary
Fabian Society
3. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Atlantic Charter
Friedrich Nietzsche
Herbert Spencer
Battle of the Somme
4. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
English Civil War
Bradenburg-Prussia
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Lenin and Trotsky
5. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Spanish Civil War
Zimmerman telegram
Thirty Years' War
6. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Potsdam
Black Shirt March
Joseph II
7. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Soviet-Afghan War
ancien regime
British East India Company
Vichy Regime
8. Discovered radium.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Marie Curie
Marshall plan
White Russians
9. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Charles Montesquieu
Allies
Axis Powers
French Revolution of 1848
10. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Reform Bill
Whigs
Concert of Europe
11. 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
Fascist Party
Jean Paul Marat
Louis Philippe I
Nazi
12. 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
Francois Voltaire
Andrew Carnegie
Adolf Eichmann
Black Shirt March
13. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Quadruple Alliance
Lusitania
Daimler and Benz
Seven Year's War
14. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Andrew Carnegie
Marshall plan
First and Second International
English Civil War
15. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Red Russians
Count Cavour
Edward Gibbon
Johannes Kepler
16. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Assembly of Notables
Steel
Home Rule
Thermidorian Reaction
17. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Home Rule
Ptolemy
Ferdinand VII
Austro-Piedmontese War
18. 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.
Charles X
Congress of Vienna
Franco-Prussian War
Directory
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.
Third International
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Charles X
Austria-Hungary
20. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
White Russians
Vladimir Lenin
Vichy Regime
Giueseppe Garibaldi
21. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Isaac Newton
Free French
Benito Mussolini
Emmeline Prankhurst
22. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Jacobins
French Revolution of 1848
Bishop Bossuet
23. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of London
Social Democratic Party
Edinburgh
24. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Adam Smith
Utilitarianism
James Watt
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
25. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
soviets
Revisionists
Thermidorian Reaction
Declaration of Pillnitz
26. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Charles Montesquieu
Thomas Malthus
New Economic Policy
Nazi
27. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Third International
Red Russians
Central Powers.
Francois Voltaire
28. 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.
Tories
Sir Francis Bacon
Warsaw Pact
Girondins
29. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Marie Curie
Concert of Europe
Edict of Nantes
Petition of Rights
30. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Petition of Rights
Charles Montesquieu
British East India Company
Dulce et Decorum Est
31. Extermination of the Jews.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Oliver Cromwell
Kulaks
Final Solution
32. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Home Rule
soviets
Adam Smith
33. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Peter the Great
Daimler and Benz
Sergei Witte
34. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Eastern Question
William Gladstone
Oliver Cromwell
35. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Warsaw Pact
Sergei Witte
Bradenburg-Prussia
Louis Philippe I
36. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
First and Second International
Charles Albert
Bradenburg-Prussia
Korean War
37. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Charles Montesquieu
Dual Monarchy
British East India Company
38. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
New Economic Policy
Ottoman empire dissolved
Treaty of Paris
Charles X
39. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Kulaks
Joseph Stalin
Soviet-Afghan War
ultraroyalists
40. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Revisionists
Enclosure movement
Home Rule
Louis XIV
41. 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.
John Stuart Mill
Panther
Blaise Pascal
Seven Weeks' War
42. 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
John F. Kennedy
Gottfried Leibniz
Catherine the Great
43. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Lusitania
The Glorious Revolution
Atlantic Charter
Andrew Carnegie
44. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Georges Jacques Danton
Axis Powers
Napoleon
Utilitarianism
45. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
English Civil War
Treaty of Paris
William and Catherine Booth
Dual Monarchy
46. 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
Charles Montesquieu
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
conscription
Steel
47. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
X-Ray
Declaration of Pillnitz
soviets
Charles X
48. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Leipzig
Seven Weeks' War
Frederick the Great
Johannes Kepler
49. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Allied Powers
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
Kronstadt
50. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Spanish Civil War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles X
Heinrich Himmler