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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Edmund Burke
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Dutch Republic
Franz Ferdinand
2. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Reform Bill
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Steel
3. 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
fire at the Reichstag
Leipzig
Treaty of Tilsit
4. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Treaty of Tilsit
Franco-Prussian War
Isaac Newton
5. 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
Soviet-Afghan War
John F. Kennedy
Galileo Galilei
6. 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.
Black Shirt March
Edward Gibbon
Third International
Louis XIV
7. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
First and Second International
Assembly of Notables
Third International
Thirty Years' War
8. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Reform Bill
Sergei Witte
Lenin and Trotsky
Quadruple Alliance
9. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
North German Confederation
Absolutism
Benito Mussolini
10. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Factory Act
soviets
Treaty of London
Rene Descartes
11. 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
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
English Civil War
French Revolution of 1848
Directory
12. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Enigma
Daimler and Benz
The War of Jenkin's Ear
13. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Fabian Society
Austria-Hungary
Catherine the Great
Charles Albert
14. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Stalingrad
Russian Revolution
Whigs
White Russians
15. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Spanish Civil War
The Glorious Revolution
Utilitarianism
16. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
John Locke
Russian Revolution
Nazi
17. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Eastern Question
Paracelsus
Vichy Regime
18. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Treaty of Paris
Marshall plan
Austria-Hungary
19. 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.
Red Russians
Panther
Chartist Movement
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
20. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
ultraroyalists
Greek Revolution
Central Powers.
Concert of Europe
21. 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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22. 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
Assembly of Notables
Whigs
Joseph Stalin
John Rockefeller
23. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Marshall plan
Reform Bill
Kulaks
Benito Mussolini
24. 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.
Chartist Movement
Heinrich Himmler
Frederick the Great
Boer War
25. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Axis Powers
Austria-Hungary
Catherine the Great
Home Rule
26. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Benjamin Disraeli
Atlantic Charter
Dulce et Decorum Est
27. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Austria-Hungary
Robert Koch
Berlin Conference
Peter the Great
28. A military draft
North German Confederation
Napoleon
'Turnip' Townsend
conscription
29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Utilitarianism
Treaty of Paris
Andrew Carnegie
Korean War
30. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Chartist Movement
Labour Party
Austro-Piedmontese War
31. 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
Battle of the Somme
Gottfried Leibniz
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
32. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Frederick the Great
Brezhnev Doctrine
Nazi
English Civil War
33. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Lateran Pact
Seven Year's War
Warsaw Pact
34. 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.
'Turnip' Townsend
Bradenburg-Prussia
Secularization
Napoleon
35. (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
Isaac Newton
War of Austrian Succession
Quadruple Alliance
Congress of Vienna
36. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Soviet-Afghan War
Atlantic Charter
Treaty of Paris
37. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
North German Confederation
ultraroyalists
Lusitania
38. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Third International
Spanish-American War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Paracelsus
39. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Enclosure movement
Russo-Japanese War
Committee of Public Safety
Emmeline Prankhurst
40. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Charles Albert
Vesalius
Andrew Carnegie
41. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Gottfried Leibniz
Utilitarianism
Denis Diderot
Georges Jacques Danton
42. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
'Turnip' Townsend
Transcendentalists
Final Solution
43. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
New Economic Policy
Theodore Herzl
Whigs
44. Important ZIONIST.
Eastern Question
Benjamin Disraeli
Triple Alliance
Theodore Herzl
45. 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
conscription
Triple Entente
Austro-Piedmontese War
Potsdam
46. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
English Civil War
Berlin Conference
Axis Powers
Zimmerman telegram
47. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Austria-Hungary
Kaiser Wilhelm I
James Watt
Easter Rising
48. 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.
'Turnip' Townsend
Lenin and Trotsky
New Economic Policy
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
49. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Treaty of Paris
Vichy Regime
Utilitarianism
Blaise Pascal
50. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Georges Jacques Danton
Spanish Civil War
Whigs