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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Daimler and Benz
North German Confederation
First and Second International
2. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Declaration of Pillnitz
Seven Year's War
Treaty of Paris
3. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Thermidorian Reaction
vanguard
Public Health Act
Boer War
4. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
John F. Kennedy
Leipzig
Committee of Public Safety
5. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Edward Gibbon
Fascist Party
John Stuart Mill
Central Powers.
6. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Greek Revolution
Allies
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
X-Ray
7. 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.
Legislative Assembly
vanguard
Nikita Khrushchev
Panther
8. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Louis Philippe I
Triple Entente
Revisionists
Emmanuel Sieyes
9. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph Stalin
Andrew Carnegie
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
10. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Leipzig
Ottoman empire dissolved
Charles Montesquieu
Korean War
11. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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12. A military draft
Oliver Cromwell
Brezhnev Doctrine
conscription
Dulce et Decorum Est
13. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Absolutism
Edward Gibbon
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jacobins
14. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Revolution from Above
Benjamin Disraeli
Mary Wollstonecraft
15. 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.
Marie Curie
Chartist Movement
Thermidor
Oliver Cromwell
16. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
Catherine the Great
Fabian Society
Triple Alliance
Copernicus
17. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Directory
Chartist Movement
Utilitarianism
Friedrich Nietzsche
18. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
Quadruple Alliance
Charles Albert
Tories
19. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Kulaks
Assembly of Notables
Joseph II
Whigs
20. 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.
Steel
War of Austrian Succession
Joseph Stalin
Russian Revolution
21. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Spanish Civil War
Greek Revolution
Labour Party
22. 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
Battle of Adowa
Fabian Society
Adam Smith
23. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Battle of the Bulge
New Economic Policy
Thirty Years' War
William Gladstone
24. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Greek Revolution
Frederick the Great
War of Austrian Succession
25. 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.'
Paracelsus
Treaty of Tilsit
Treaty of Frankfurt
Bishop Bossuet
26. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Black Shirt March
Treaty of Frankfurt
Reform Bill
27. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Committee of Public Safety
Quadruple Alliance
Revolution from Above
Steel
28. 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.
Revolution from Above
Declaration of Pillnitz
Seven Year's War
Lateran Pact
29. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Berlin Conference
Potsdam
Revisionists
British East India Company
30. 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.
Napoleon
Utilitarianism
Denis Diderot
Rene Descartes
31. 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
White Russians
Joseph Stalin
Axis Powers
Tories
32. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Edward Gibbon
Tories
Revolution from Above
33. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Nazi
New Economic Policy
Russian Revolution
Austria-Hungary
34. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Stalingrad
First and Second International
Spanish Civil War
Red Russians
35. Extermination of the Jews.
soviets
Friedrich Nietzsche
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Final Solution
36. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Edmund Burke
Spanish-American War
fire at the Reichstag
vanguard
37. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Lenin and Trotsky
Declaration of Pillnitz
Rene Descartes
French Revolution of 1848
38. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Blaise Pascal
Benito Mussolini
Leipzig
39. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Joseph Stalin
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Herbert Spencer
Denis Diderot
40. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Dual Monarchy
Fabian Society
Thirty Years' War
41. 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.
Vladimir Lenin
Bradenburg-Prussia
French Revolution of 1848
Denis Diderot
42. 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
English Civil War
Marshall plan
Legislative Assembly
Isaac Newton
43. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
North German Confederation
Kulaks
Benjamin Disraeli
44. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Adam Smith
The Glorious Revolution
Central Powers.
45. A Jewish British prime minister.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Home Rule
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Disraeli
46. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Whigs
Central Powers.
Battle of Adowa
47. Discovered radium.
Paris Commune
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marie Curie
James Watt
48. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Treaty of Paris
Enclosure movement
Dulce et Decorum Est
Cecil Rhodes.
49. 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.
Volksgeist
War of Austrian Succession
'Turnip' Townsend
Russian Revolution
50. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
Adam Smith
Frederick the Great
Boer War