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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Central Powers.
John Stuart Mill
ancien regime
Paracelsus
2. 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
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3. 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
Third International
Paracelsus
Dutch Republic
Easter Rising
4. 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.
Isaac Newton
Louis Philippe I
Congress of Vienna
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
5. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
'Turnip' Townsend
fire at the Reichstag
Brezhnev Doctrine
Free French
6. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Holy Alliance
John Stuart Mill
The War of Jenkin's Ear
7. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Johannes Kepler
Marie Curie
Edict of Nantes
Charles X
8. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Russian Revolution
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Edinburgh
Lusitania
9. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
English Civil War
Soviet-Afghan War
Petition of Rights
Axis Powers
10. A Jewish British prime minister.
White Russians
Benjamin Disraeli
Herbert Spencer
Isaac Newton
11. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Jean Paul Marat
Axis Powers
Secularization
Mary Wollstonecraft
12. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Joseph Stalin
Rene Descartes
Quadruple Alliance
Seven Year's War
13. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Treaty of Frankfurt
Transcendentalists
Lenin and Trotsky
14. Extermination of the Jews.
Home Rule
Committee of Public Safety
Charles Montesquieu
Final Solution
15. 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
Treaty of London
Atlantic Charter
English Civil War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
16. 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
Seven Year's War
Zimmerman telegram
Paracelsus
Home Rule
17. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
The War of Jenkin's Ear
conscription
Emelyn Pugachev
Spanish-American War
18. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
'Turnip' Townsend
Greek Revolution
Dulce et Decorum Est
John Rockefeller
19. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Adolf Eichmann
Rene Descartes
Stalingrad
Home Rule
20. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Herbert Spencer
Lateran Pact
Kulaks
21. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Piedmontese War
Jacobins
Vladimir Lenin
22. 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.
Seven Year's War
Atlantic Charter
Ferdinand VII
North German Confederation
23. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Social Democratic Party
Paris Commune
Public Health Act
Edict of Nantes
24. 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.
Marshall plan
Fascist Party
Central Powers.
Emelyn Pugachev
25. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Charles Albert
Daimler and Benz
William Gladstone
Petition of Rights
26. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edward Gibbon
Friedrich Nietzsche
27. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
John Rockefeller
Boer War
Kronstadt
28. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
The Glorious Revolution
French Revolution of 1848
Emmeline Prankhurst
Leipzig
29. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Dual Monarchy
Continental System
fire at the Reichstag
30. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Sir Francis Bacon
The Glorious Revolution
Korean War
James Watt
31. 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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32. 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.
Lusitania
Emmanuel Sieyes
Benito Mussolini
Napoleon
33. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
ancien regime
Treaty of Frankfurt
Fabian Society
Count Cavour
34. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Eastern Question
Triple Alliance
Potsdam
Revisionists
35. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Nazi
Edinburgh
Directory
Holy Alliance
36. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Dual Monarchy
Black Shirt March
vanguard
Joseph II
37. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
conscription
Central Powers.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Francois Voltaire
38. 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
Soviet-Afghan War
Eastern Question
Holy Alliance
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
39. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Utilitarianism
Austro-Piedmontese War
Rene Descartes
Absolutism
40. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Lusitania
Russo-Japanese War
Petition of Rights
Francois Voltaire
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.
Stalingrad
Zimmerman telegram
Edict of Nantes
Utilitarianism
42. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Heinrich Himmler
Nikita Khrushchev
Fascist Party
43. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Russian Revolution
Reform Bill
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
vanguard
44. 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.
Dutch Republic
French Revolution of 1848
Vladimir Lenin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
45. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Allied Powers
Ptolemy
Marshall plan
Emmeline Prankhurst
46. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Social Democratic Party
Battle of the Somme
Gottfried Leibniz
47. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Red Russians
Volksgeist
Charles X
Sergei Witte
48. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Sergei Witte
Benito Mussolini
Battle of the Somme
North German Confederation
49. 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.
Continental System
Cecil Rhodes.
Blaise Pascal
Atlantic Charter
50. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Edmund Burke
Chartist Movement
Emmanuel Sieyes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte