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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Utilitarianism
Joseph Stalin
Francois Voltaire
Kaiser Wilhelm I
2. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Bishop Bossuet
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giueseppe Garibaldi
ultraroyalists
3. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Seven Weeks' War
soviets
Austro-Hungarian Empire
4. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Daimler and Benz
Transcendentalists
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Franco-Prussian War
5. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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6. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Marshall plan
Georges Jacques Danton
Vladimir Lenin
Benjamin Disraeli
7. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Heinrich Himmler
Benjamin Disraeli
Volksgeist
8. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Allied Powers
Galileo Galilei
Kulaks
Heinrich Himmler
9. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Fascist Party
Vladimir Lenin
William Gladstone
Seven Weeks' War
10. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Allied Powers
Social Democratic Party
Sergei Witte
Treaty of Frankfurt
11. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Adam Smith
Home Rule
Lenin and Trotsky
Cecil Rhodes.
12. 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.
Ptolemy
Blaise Pascal
Directory
Triple Entente
13. 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)
Adam Smith
Korean War
Thermidor
Benito Mussolini
14. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Robert Koch
Charles X
Free French
15. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Concert of Europe
Revolution from Above
Greek Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
16. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Charles Montesquieu
Peter the Great
Quadruple Alliance
Paris Commune
17. 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.
Enigma
John Locke
Crimean War
Vesalius
18. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
John Rockefeller
Denis Diderot
Franz Ferdinand
Eastern Question
19. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Free French
Andrew Carnegie
20. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Chartist Movement
Paris Commune
Factory Act
Quadruple Alliance
21. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
War of Austrian Succession
Easter Rising
Boer War
Eastern Question
22. A military draft
X-Ray
Battle of Adowa
conscription
Charles Montesquieu
23. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Dutch Republic
Absolutism
Catherine the Great
Heinrich Himmler
24. 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
Enclosure movement
Jean Paul Marat
Seven Weeks' War
Treaty of Frankfurt
25. 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.
Count Cavour
Transcendentalists
Russo-Japanese War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
26. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Crimean War
Lusitania
27. 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.'
Emelyn Pugachev
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charles X
Emmanuel Sieyes
28. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
First and Second International
Soviet-Afghan War
Austro-Piedmontese War
29. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Zimmerman telegram
Austro-Piedmontese War
Volksgeist
30. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
French Revolution of 1848
Joseph II
Easter Rising
Marshall plan
31. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
ultraroyalists
Whigs
Treaty of Frankfurt
Continental System
32. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Charles X
Johannes Kepler
Copernicus
Warsaw Pact
33. 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.
Vesalius
Vladimir Lenin
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Bradenburg-Prussia
34. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Charles Albert
Atlantic Charter
Count Cavour
Jacobins
35. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Axis Powers
Peter the Great
Edmund Burke
Daimler and Benz
36. 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.
British East India Company
Absolutism
Joseph Stalin
Edward Gibbon
37. 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).
White Russians
Potsdam
Georges Jacques Danton
Nikita Khrushchev
38. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Kronstadt
Transcendentalists
Petition of Rights
39. 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.
Crimean War
Petition of Rights
James Watt
French Revolution of 1848
40. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Heinrich Himmler
The War of Jenkin's Ear
William and Catherine Booth
Emmanuel Sieyes
41. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Zimmerman telegram
Blaise Pascal
Treaty of Tilsit
Bishop Bossuet
42. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Vesalius
Public Health Act
Johannes Kepler
John Stuart Mill
43. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
English Civil War
Dual Monarchy
Jacobins
ancien regime
44. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Committee of Public Safety
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Georges Jacques Danton
Ptolemy
45. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Whigs
James Watt
Copernicus
Napoleon
46. 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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47. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Lenin and Trotsky
Legislative Assembly
Napoleon
ancien regime
48. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Boer War
Legislative Assembly
Edward Gibbon
Korean War
49. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Directory
Giueseppe Garibaldi
50. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
William and Catherine Booth
Treaty of Tilsit
James Watt