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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Soviet-Afghan War
Benjamin Disraeli
Catherine the Great
Isaac Newton
2. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Rene Descartes
Adam Smith
Kronstadt
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-American War
Emmeline Prankhurst
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Spanish Civil War
4. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Fascist Party
Whigs
Treaty of London
James Watt
5. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Steel
vanguard
Catherine the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
6. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Lateran Pact
Adolf Eichmann
Kulaks
7. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Triple Alliance
Warsaw Pact
Sergei Witte
ancien regime
8. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Theodore Herzl
Copernicus
John Rockefeller
9. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Secularization
Zimmerman telegram
Warsaw Pact
Battle of the Bulge
10. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Franco-Prussian War
soviets
11. 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
Soviet-Afghan War
Potsdam
Enigma
Central Powers.
12. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Lateran Pact
Kronstadt
Herbert Spencer
New Economic Policy
13. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Treaty of Paris
Assembly of Notables
Georges Jacques Danton
14. A military draft
Catherine the Great
Giuseppe Mazzini
conscription
Sergei Witte
15. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Zimmerman telegram
Sir Francis Bacon
Crimean War
Eastern Question
16. 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
Fascist Party
Bishop Bossuet
Thermidorian Reaction
Quadruple Alliance
17. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Boer War
Easter Rising
Treaty of Frankfurt
18. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Central Powers.
Edmund Burke
British East India Company
Ptolemy
19. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Korean War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
British East India Company
20. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
ancien regime
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Greek Revolution
Congress of Vienna
21. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Seven Weeks' War
Girondins
Allies
Treaty of London
22. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Triple Entente
Boer War
Bradenburg-Prussia
23. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Dutch Republic
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Triple Entente
Joseph Stalin
24. 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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25. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Franz Ferdinand
fire at the Reichstag
The Glorious Revolution
26. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Thermidor
Edinburgh
Isaac Newton
John Stuart Mill
27. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Edict of Nantes
Committee of Public Safety
Ferdinand VII
Enigma
28. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Count Cavour
Treaty of Paris
Warsaw Pact
Allied Powers
30. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Treaty of Tilsit
Ptolemy
vanguard
31. Extermination of the Jews.
Spanish Civil War
Final Solution
Cecil Rhodes.
Utilitarianism
32. 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.
Denis Diderot
Public Health Act
Home Rule
Oliver Cromwell
33. 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.'
Marie Curie
Austro-Piedmontese War
Peter the Great
Bishop Bossuet
34. 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
Kronstadt
Marie Curie
Ferdinand VII
35. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
The War of Jenkin's Ear
English Civil War
Isaac Newton
36. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Fabian Society
Lusitania
Seven Year's War
37. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Thermidorian Reaction
Utilitarianism
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Count Cavour
38. Discovered radium.
Catherine the Great
Red Russians
Marie Curie
Committee of Public Safety
39. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Gottfried Leibniz
Absolutism
40. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Nazi
Jacobins
The Glorious Revolution
Emmeline Prankhurst
41. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Tories
vanguard
Edict of Nantes
42. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Sir Francis Bacon
Continental System
Secularization
New Economic Policy
43. (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
Louis Philippe I
Spanish Civil War
War of Austrian Succession
Edward Gibbon
44. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
English Civil War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Franz Ferdinand
conscription
45. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
John F. Kennedy
Treaty of London
Spanish-American War
Triple Entente
46. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Declaration of Pillnitz
Robert Koch
Lateran Pact
47. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Leipzig
Petition of Rights
vanguard
Battle of Adowa
48. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Reform Bill
Edmund Burke
Andrew Carnegie
49. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Gottfried Leibniz
The Glorious Revolution
English Civil War
50. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Ptolemy
Holy Alliance
Adam Smith
Louis Philippe I