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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Holy Alliance
Charles Albert
Fabian Society
2. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Panther
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
British East India Company
3. A Jewish British prime minister.
Treaty of London
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fabian Society
Benjamin Disraeli
4. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Edinburgh
Chartist Movement
Enclosure movement
5. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Austria-Hungary
Kronstadt
Public Health Act
Berlin Conference
6. 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.
Reform Bill
vanguard
Brezhnev Doctrine
Charles X
7. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Revisionists
French Revolution of 1848
Joseph II
8. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Denis Diderot
William Gladstone
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Lateran Pact
9. 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.
Ptolemy
Volksgeist
Thirty Years' War
Labour Party
10. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Enclosure movement
Zimmerman telegram
Adolf Eichmann
conscription
11. 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.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Factory Act
Blaise Pascal
Stalingrad
12. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Georges Jacques Danton
Isaac Newton
Atlantic Charter
Treaty of Tilsit
13. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Blaise Pascal
Brezhnev Doctrine
Spanish-American War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
14. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Cecil Rhodes.
soviets
Adam Smith
15. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Holy Alliance
vanguard
Dutch Republic
Treaty of Frankfurt
16. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Assembly of Notables
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enclosure movement
17. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
John F. Kennedy
Dulce et Decorum Est
Dutch Republic
Cecil Rhodes.
18. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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19. 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
John Locke
Kulaks
Blaise Pascal
20. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Central Powers.
William Gladstone
'Turnip' Townsend
21. 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.
Louis XIV
Eastern Question
Fascist Party
Charles X
22. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Daimler and Benz
Vichy Regime
Concert of Europe
23. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Peter the Great
British East India Company
John Rockefeller
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
24. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
North German Confederation
Edward Gibbon
Marie Curie
25. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Spanish-American War
Seven Year's War
Lusitania
Robert Koch
26. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Robert Koch
Whigs
Austro-Piedmontese War
27. 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.
Potsdam
Seven Weeks' War
Absolutism
Austro-Hungarian Empire
28. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Warsaw Pact
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Public Health Act
Vladimir Lenin
29. 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.
Congress of Vienna
Thomas Malthus
Bradenburg-Prussia
Rene Descartes
30. 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.
Edward Gibbon
British East India Company
Napoleon
Rene Descartes
31. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Final Solution
Utilitarianism
Korean War
Directory
32. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Russian Revolution
Public Health Act
Fascist Party
33. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Peter the Great
Easter Rising
Concert of Europe
New Economic Policy
34. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Sir Francis Bacon
Lusitania
Black Shirt March
Leipzig
35. 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.
Axis Powers
Oliver Cromwell
Absolutism
Lusitania
36. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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37. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Assembly of Notables
Atlantic Charter
Stalingrad
Galileo Galilei
38. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Third International
Russo-Japanese War
Franz Ferdinand
Final Solution
39. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
conscription
Robert Koch
Girondins
40. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Emmanuel Sieyes
War of Austrian Succession
Vesalius
41. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Directory
Seven Weeks' War
Black Shirt March
Copernicus
42. (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
Benito Mussolini
Thermidorian Reaction
Paracelsus
43. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Battle of the Somme
Utilitarianism
Bishop Bossuet
44. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Leipzig
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quadruple Alliance
Sergei Witte
45. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Vesalius
Denis Diderot
Isaac Newton
46. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Crimean War
Axis Powers
Continental System
John Locke
47. 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.
Fascist Party
Whigs
Charles X
Catherine the Great
48. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Legislative Assembly
Social Democratic Party
Edmund Burke
Dulce et Decorum Est
49. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Congress of Vienna
Warsaw Pact
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nikita Khrushchev
50. Important ZIONIST.
Franz Ferdinand
Theodore Herzl
Emmanuel Sieyes
Johannes Kepler