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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Panther
Edward Gibbon
Central Powers.
Galileo Galilei
2. 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
William Gladstone
Battle of the Bulge
Joseph Stalin
Enclosure movement
3. 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
Spanish Civil War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
ultraroyalists
Andrew Carnegie
4. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Frederick the Great
Spanish Civil War
Herbert Spencer
5. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Third International
Vladimir Lenin
Russo-Japanese War
6. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Charles Albert
7. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Herbert Spencer
Soviet-Afghan War
Rene Descartes
Korean War
8. 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).
Herbert Spencer
Public Health Act
Georges Jacques Danton
Stalingrad
9. 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.
Stalingrad
Treaty of London
Frederick the Great
Seven Year's War
10. 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.
Denis Diderot
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
British East India Company
Tories
11. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Benito Mussolini
Lateran Pact
Emmanuel Sieyes
12. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Emelyn Pugachev
Stalingrad
New Economic Policy
Georges Jacques Danton
13. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
conscription
Treaty of London
Bishop Bossuet
Benjamin Disraeli
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.
Home Rule
Final Solution
Battle of Adowa
Reform Bill
15. 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
Vichy Regime
Final Solution
Third International
16. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Reform Bill
John Rockefeller
Sir Francis Bacon
17. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
The Glorious Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
Allies
18. 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.
Black Shirt March
Social Democratic Party
Soviet-Afghan War
Giuseppe Mazzini
19. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
ultraroyalists
Stalingrad
Enigma
20. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Marie Curie
Bishop Bossuet
Franz Ferdinand
Dual Monarchy
21. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Herbert Spencer
John Rockefeller
Edmund Burke
Thermidorian Reaction
22. 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
War of Austrian Succession
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Austria-Hungary
23. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Robert Koch
Vladimir Lenin
James Watt
Legislative Assembly
24. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Thermidorian Reaction
White Russians
Vesalius
Reform Bill
25. 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.
Herbert Spencer
Congress of Vienna
Vichy Regime
Bradenburg-Prussia
26. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
British East India Company
ancien regime
Nazi
27. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Thomas Malthus
Edinburgh
Treaty of Tilsit
Axis Powers
28. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
ultraroyalists
William and Catherine Booth
New Economic Policy
Thermidor
29. 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.
Louis XIV
Nikita Khrushchev
Edict of Nantes
Boer War
30. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Secularization
Legislative Assembly
Emmanuel Sieyes
X-Ray
31. (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
Sir Francis Bacon
Austria-Hungary
Third International
War of Austrian Succession
32. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Jean Paul Marat
Oliver Cromwell
'Turnip' Townsend
Gottfried Leibniz
33. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Lenin and Trotsky
The Glorious Revolution
Committee of Public Safety
'Turnip' Townsend
34. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Petition of Rights
Easter Rising
Edict of Nantes
Ottoman empire dissolved
35. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Copernicus
Vichy Regime
Factory Act
Spanish-American War
36. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Kronstadt
'Turnip' Townsend
Dulce et Decorum Est
37. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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38. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Emmeline Prankhurst
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Axis Powers
Triple Entente
39. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Treaty of Frankfurt
Korean War
John Rockefeller
40. 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.
Soviet-Afghan War
Vesalius
Allied Powers
Bradenburg-Prussia
41. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Jacobins
Revisionists
Lateran Pact
Boer War
42. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Public Health Act
Rene Descartes
Thomas Malthus
Triple Entente
43. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
North German Confederation
English Civil War
John F. Kennedy
Steel
44. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Denis Diderot
Fascist Party
Whigs
45. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Oliver Cromwell
Giuseppe Mazzini
Warsaw Pact
Battle of the Somme
46. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Absolutism
Treaty of London
Thermidorian Reaction
Rene Descartes
47. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Triple Entente
Adam Smith
Continental System
Russo-Japanese War
48. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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49. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Adolf Eichmann
Charles Montesquieu
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
50. 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.
Kulaks
North German Confederation
John Stuart Mill
Fascist Party
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