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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Gottfried Leibniz
Free French
Absolutism
White Russians
2. 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.
Herbert Spencer
Louis Philippe I
Quadruple Alliance
Cecil Rhodes.
3. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Charles X
Charles Albert
soviets
Edict of Nantes
4. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Fabian Society
Heinrich Himmler
Dual Monarchy
Georges Jacques Danton
5. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Benito Mussolini
Secularization
Charles Montesquieu
Benjamin Disraeli
6. 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
Easter Rising
Georges Jacques Danton
Francois Voltaire
Black Shirt March
7. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
William and Catherine Booth
Spanish-American War
Nikita Khrushchev
Leipzig
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).
Atlantic Charter
Georges Jacques Danton
Joseph Stalin
Volksgeist
9. 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.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Petition of Rights
English Civil War
Stalingrad
10. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Enclosure movement
Vladimir Lenin
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Gottfried Leibniz
11. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Joseph II
Peter the Great
Treaty of Frankfurt
The War of Jenkin's Ear
12. 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.
Concert of Europe
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Directory
13. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Bradenburg-Prussia
Third International
Central Powers.
14. Extermination of the Jews.
Charles X
Final Solution
Central Powers.
Public Health Act
15. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Franz Ferdinand
Denis Diderot
Ferdinand VII
Lusitania
16. Greater freedom for Ireland.
John Locke
Home Rule
Daimler and Benz
Russo-Japanese War
17. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Franco-Prussian War
Sir Francis Bacon
Thirty Years' War
Austria-Hungary
18. 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
Revolution from Above
Potsdam
Joseph Stalin
Zimmerman telegram
19. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Soviet-Afghan War
Charles Montesquieu
Seven Weeks' War
20. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Copernicus
Free French
John Locke
Public Health Act
21. 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
James Watt
Whigs
Social Democratic Party
22. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
soviets
fire at the Reichstag
Spanish-American War
23. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Utilitarianism
Lusitania
Dutch Republic
Napoleon
24. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Boer War
Daimler and Benz
Triple Entente
Stalingrad
25. 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.
William and Catherine Booth
Battle of Adowa
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Committee of Public Safety
26. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Kronstadt
Charles Montesquieu
Battle of the Bulge
Blaise Pascal
27. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Berlin Conference
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Potsdam
Treaty of Paris
28. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
ancien regime
Continental System
29. 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
Bradenburg-Prussia
Berlin Conference
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kaiser Wilhelm I
30. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Benjamin Disraeli
Transcendentalists
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Hungarian Empire
31. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Georges Jacques Danton
Lateran Pact
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Count Cavour
32. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Emmanuel Sieyes
Dual Monarchy
Austro-Piedmontese War
33. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Quadruple Alliance
Seven Year's War
Directory
Paracelsus
34. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Leipzig
Copernicus
Fascist Party
35. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Thirty Years' War
Revolution from Above
The Glorious Revolution
William and Catherine Booth
36. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Russian Revolution
Soviet-Afghan War
Vesalius
37. 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
Treaty of London
Edmund Burke
First and Second International
The Glorious Revolution
38. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Paracelsus
Allied Powers
Rene Descartes
British East India Company
39. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Treaty of Tilsit
Thermidor
Factory Act
White Russians
40. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Transcendentalists
Assembly of Notables
Benjamin Disraeli
41. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Spanish Civil War
Fabian Society
Franco-Prussian War
Enigma
42. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
John Rockefeller
Herbert Spencer
Edinburgh
Benito Mussolini
43. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Vichy Regime
Marshall plan
Central Powers.
Congress of Vienna
44. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
John F. Kennedy
Allied Powers
William and Catherine Booth
45. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Assembly of Notables
Austro-Piedmontese War
Black Shirt March
46. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Holy Alliance
Berlin Conference
Kulaks
Soviet-Afghan War
47. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Peter the Great
Factory Act
48. 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.
Girondins
Reform Bill
Third International
Johannes Kepler
49. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Theodore Herzl
Mary Wollstonecraft
Ottoman empire dissolved
Franz Ferdinand
50. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Allied Powers
Bishop Bossuet
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Revisionists