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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Reform Bill
Franz Ferdinand
Warsaw Pact
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Revisionists
Russian Revolution
Warsaw Pact
Boer War
3. 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.
soviets
English Civil War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Lateran Pact
4. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Marie Curie
Joseph II
Secularization
Quadruple Alliance
5. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Nikita Khrushchev
Atlantic Charter
Joseph II
Continental System
6. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Frederick the Great
Assembly of Notables
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of London
7. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
'Turnip' Townsend
Marshall plan
Giuseppe Mazzini
8. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Whigs
Public Health Act
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Paracelsus
Russo-Japanese War
Emmeline Prankhurst
Kulaks
10. 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
11. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Vichy Regime
Lusitania
Russo-Japanese War
Ptolemy
12. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Thermidor
The Glorious Revolution
Transcendentalists
Absolutism
13. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Holy Alliance
Easter Rising
Robert Koch
14. 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.
William and Catherine Booth
Oliver Cromwell
Absolutism
Nikita Khrushchev
15. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Treaty of Paris
Count Cavour
Jean Paul Marat
Chartist Movement
16. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Lenin and Trotsky
Louis XIV
Charles Montesquieu
Edinburgh
17. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Bishop Bossuet
Marshall plan
James Watt
Quadruple Alliance
18. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Leipzig
Denis Diderot
vanguard
Edward Gibbon
19. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Soviet-Afghan War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Home Rule
Herbert Spencer
20. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Ferdinand VII
Sergei Witte
Francois Voltaire
John Stuart Mill
21. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Transcendentalists
ultraroyalists
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Adam Smith
22. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Continental System
ancien regime
Secularization
23. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Robert Koch
Charles Montesquieu
Triple Entente
John Stuart Mill
24. 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.'
Thermidorian Reaction
Dual Monarchy
Sir Francis Bacon
Mary Wollstonecraft
25. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Absolutism
Edinburgh
Thomas Malthus
Gottfried Leibniz
26. 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.
Ptolemy
Vesalius
Congress of Vienna
Franz Ferdinand
27. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Factory Act
Secularization
Panther
28. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Tories
Chartist Movement
vanguard
29. 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).
William Gladstone
Georges Jacques Danton
Korean War
Declaration of Pillnitz
30. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
New Economic Policy
Triple Alliance
Franco-Prussian War
31. 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.
Edward Gibbon
Nikita Khrushchev
Ferdinand VII
vanguard
32. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Vesalius
Herbert Spencer
Spanish Civil War
Stalingrad
33. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franco-Prussian War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Dual Monarchy
Franz Ferdinand
34. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Vichy Regime
Labour Party
Bradenburg-Prussia
Girondins
35. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Ferdinand VII
Napoleon
Potsdam
36. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Steel
Lateran Pact
Kaiser Wilhelm I
37. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Allied Powers
Factory Act
Benito Mussolini
Boer War
38. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
French Revolution of 1848
Leipzig
Dulce et Decorum Est
John F. Kennedy
39. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Social Democratic Party
'Turnip' Townsend
Peter the Great
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
Adolf Eichmann
Factory Act
Potsdam
Russo-Japanese War
41. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Joseph II
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Denis Diderot
42. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Joseph II
Battle of the Bulge
Jacobins
Steel
43. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Concert of Europe
Heinrich Himmler
Napoleon
44. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Lenin and Trotsky
'Turnip' Townsend
Final Solution
45. 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
46. 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
Isaac Newton
Thermidorian Reaction
Spanish Civil War
Adam Smith
47. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
soviets
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Red Russians
48. Founded the Salvation Army
Battle of the Bulge
Catherine the Great
Frederick the Great
William and Catherine Booth
49. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Seven Year's War
Revolution from Above
Nazi
50. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.