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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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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2. Discovered radium.
Count Cavour
Joseph Stalin
Marie Curie
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
3. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Franco-Prussian War
Allies
Louis XIV
Allied Powers
4. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
British East India Company
Vichy Regime
Marshall plan
5. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
British East India Company
Chartist Movement
Directory
6. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Frederick the Great
Russo-Japanese War
Denis Diderot
Russian Revolution
7. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Holy Alliance
soviets
Zimmerman telegram
8. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Franco-Prussian War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Rene Descartes
Secularization
9. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Louis Philippe I
Continental System
Black Shirt March
Atlantic Charter
10. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Austro-Piedmontese War
Herbert Spencer
conscription
11. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Home Rule
John Rockefeller
John Stuart Mill
Allies
12. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Kulaks
Factory Act
Steel
Leipzig
13. 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.
Treaty of Paris
Spanish Civil War
Edmund Burke
Blaise Pascal
14. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Charles X
Daimler and Benz
conscription
15. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
North German Confederation
Girondins
Tories
16. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Lusitania
Herbert Spencer
John Rockefeller
17. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Andrew Carnegie
Rene Descartes
Seven Year's War
Kulaks
18. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Triple Alliance
Austro-Piedmontese War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
19. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Congress of Vienna
Dual Monarchy
Oliver Cromwell
English Civil War
20. 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
Giueseppe Garibaldi
The Glorious Revolution
North German Confederation
Heinrich Himmler
21. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Declaration of Pillnitz
Bradenburg-Prussia
Francois Voltaire
22. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Emmeline Prankhurst
Joseph II
Kulaks
23. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Transcendentalists
John Stuart Mill
Revolution from Above
24. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Petition of Rights
Oliver Cromwell
Enigma
25. 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.
Frederick the Great
Enclosure movement
Cecil Rhodes.
Jacobins
26. 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.
Volksgeist
Galileo Galilei
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Quadruple Alliance
27. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Third International
John F. Kennedy
Central Powers.
28. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Francois Voltaire
Atlantic Charter
29. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Red Russians
Cecil Rhodes.
30. 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.
John Stuart Mill
Vladimir Lenin
Absolutism
Oliver Cromwell
31. 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
Committee of Public Safety
Fabian Society
Kaiser Wilhelm I
32. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Revisionists
'Turnip' Townsend
Edinburgh
33. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
John Locke
Public Health Act
Oliver Cromwell
Franz Ferdinand
34. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Soviet-Afghan War
fire at the Reichstag
Franco-Prussian War
John Stuart Mill
35. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Heinrich Himmler
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Cecil Rhodes.
36. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Axis Powers
Cecil Rhodes.
Galileo Galilei
Utilitarianism
37. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Revolution from Above
Directory
Treaty of Paris
Quadruple Alliance
38. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Lusitania
Triple Alliance
Rene Descartes
Central Powers.
39. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Bradenburg-Prussia
Spanish-American War
Warsaw Pact
Kaiser Wilhelm I
40. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Lateran Pact
Korean War
Third International
Adam Smith
41. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Georges Jacques Danton
Axis Powers
Dulce et Decorum Est
fire at the Reichstag
42. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
ancien regime
Potsdam
Enclosure movement
Home Rule
43. 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.'
Bishop Bossuet
Kronstadt
Assembly of Notables
James Watt
44. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Fabian Society
Johannes Kepler
Committee of Public Safety
45. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Franz Ferdinand
Adam Smith
Legislative Assembly
46. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
First and Second International
Berlin Conference
Benito Mussolini
James Watt
47. 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).
Red Russians
Lenin and Trotsky
Francois Voltaire
Georges Jacques Danton
48. 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.
Enigma
Louis Philippe I
British East India Company
Kaiser Wilhelm I
49. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Quadruple Alliance
Red Russians
Edict of Nantes
Russo-Japanese War
50. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Allies
Copernicus
Daimler and Benz