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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
fire at the Reichstag
Edict of Nantes
Spanish-American War
Gottfried Leibniz
2. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Bishop Bossuet
Sergei Witte
Berlin Conference
3. 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.
Revisionists
Labour Party
North German Confederation
Fabian Society
4. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Isaac Newton
Atlantic Charter
Joseph Stalin
Friedrich Nietzsche
5. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Cecil Rhodes.
Ptolemy
Spanish-American War
Russo-Japanese War
6. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
ultraroyalists
Treaty of London
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Warsaw Pact
7. 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.
Panther
Greek Revolution
Paracelsus
Giuseppe Mazzini
8. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Adowa
Black Shirt March
9. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Dual Monarchy
British East India Company
vanguard
Denis Diderot
10. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Robert Koch
Free French
Kronstadt
11. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Charles Montesquieu
William Gladstone
Catherine the Great
Mary Wollstonecraft
12. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Peter the Great
Kulaks
Adam Smith
13. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Whigs
Reform Bill
Vladimir Lenin
14. 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.
Daimler and Benz
Enigma
Russian Revolution
Home Rule
15. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Secularization
Thermidorian Reaction
Central Powers.
16. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Public Health Act
Assembly of Notables
Boer War
French Revolution of 1848
17. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Revolution from Above
Home Rule
Nazi
Secularization
18. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Social Democratic Party
Count Cavour
Louis Philippe I
Kulaks
19. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Thomas Malthus
Edward Gibbon
Volksgeist
Greek Revolution
20. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Holy Alliance
Quadruple Alliance
Galileo Galilei
Lusitania
21. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Paris Commune
Daimler and Benz
22. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
White Russians
Revolution from Above
French Revolution of 1848
Russian Revolution
23. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Charles Montesquieu
Vesalius
Emmeline Prankhurst
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
24. A military draft
Triple Alliance
White Russians
conscription
Nazi
25. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Central Powers.
X-Ray
War of Austrian Succession
Directory
26. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Nikita Khrushchev
Home Rule
Peter the Great
27. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Friedrich Nietzsche
Continental System
Mary Wollstonecraft
28. 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.
Crimean War
Blaise Pascal
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Vladimir Lenin
29. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Labour Party
Central Powers.
'Turnip' Townsend
Triple Entente
30. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Herbert Spencer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vichy Regime
Greek Revolution
31. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Benito Mussolini
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
The Glorious Revolution
32. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Bishop Bossuet
Steel
Korean War
Soviet-Afghan War
33. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Austro-Piedmontese War
New Economic Policy
Thomas Malthus
John Rockefeller
34. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Frederick the Great
Allies
Andrew Carnegie
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
35. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Home Rule
Social Democratic Party
Vichy Regime
36. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Edict of Nantes
Charles Albert
Ottoman empire dissolved
37. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Free French
Secularization
Directory
Marshall plan
38. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Factory Act
Edinburgh
Benjamin Disraeli
Gottfried Leibniz
39. Extermination of the Jews.
Louis Philippe I
Final Solution
Bradenburg-Prussia
Copernicus
40. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Napoleon
Potsdam
Louis XIV
Charles Albert
41. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Edict of Nantes
Ferdinand VII
Warsaw Pact
Adam Smith
42. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Copernicus
Lenin and Trotsky
43. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
X-Ray
ancien regime
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oliver Cromwell
44. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Isaac Newton
Triple Entente
John Rockefeller
Atlantic Charter
45. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Ferdinand VII
Austro-Piedmontese War
Revolution from Above
Soviet-Afghan War
46. 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
Franco-Prussian War
soviets
French Revolution of 1848
English Civil War
47. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Third International
Quadruple Alliance
48. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
'Turnip' Townsend
Edmund Burke
Bishop Bossuet
Final Solution
49. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Dutch Republic
Robert Koch
Stalingrad
Georges Jacques Danton
50. 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
Spanish-American War
Francois Voltaire
Thermidorian Reaction
Robert Koch