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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
X-Ray
Panther
Charles X
Third International
2. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Triple Alliance
Spanish-American War
Vesalius
Louis XIV
3. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Seven Weeks' War
Edinburgh
Axis Powers
Lusitania
4. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
vanguard
Edict of Nantes
Russo-Japanese War
5. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Lenin and Trotsky
Ptolemy
Joseph II
6. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Crimean War
Chartist Movement
Third International
Triple Alliance
7. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Vesalius
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Peter the Great
8. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Blaise Pascal
Dulce et Decorum Est
9. 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.
Quadruple Alliance
Lateran Pact
Public Health Act
Berlin Conference
10. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Russo-Japanese War
Transcendentalists
11. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Benjamin Disraeli
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Charles X
12. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Franco-Prussian War
Jean Paul Marat
Volksgeist
Charles Montesquieu
13. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Peter the Great
Seven Year's War
Heinrich Himmler
Edward Gibbon
14. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Absolutism
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Vesalius
New Economic Policy
15. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
French Revolution of 1848
Dual Monarchy
Tories
vanguard
16. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Soviet-Afghan War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Transcendentalists
Franco-Prussian War
17. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Russian Revolution
Robert Koch
Zimmerman telegram
Austro-Piedmontese War
18. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Nikita Khrushchev
Dual Monarchy
Kaiser Wilhelm I
19. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Steel
Thermidor
Battle of the Bulge
20. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Nazi
French Revolution of 1848
Triple Entente
21. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Soviet-Afghan War
Lusitania
Axis Powers
Spanish Civil War
22. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Lusitania
Atlantic Charter
Social Democratic Party
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
23. 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.
Concert of Europe
Kronstadt
Austro-Piedmontese War
Adolf Eichmann
24. 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.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Holy Alliance
Boer War
Dutch Republic
25. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Treaty of Paris
Thirty Years' War
Crimean War
Adam Smith
26. 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.
English Civil War
Black Shirt March
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Herbert Spencer
27. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Charles X
Leipzig
Kulaks
conscription
28. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Crimean War
Thermidor
Bishop Bossuet
Napoleon
29. 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.
Kronstadt
Emmanuel Sieyes
Oliver Cromwell
New Economic Policy
30. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Reform Bill
Public Health Act
vanguard
Andrew Carnegie
31. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Charles Montesquieu
Joseph II
Emmeline Prankhurst
Greek Revolution
32. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Fabian Society
Bishop Bossuet
Battle of Adowa
33. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Dutch Republic
Battle of the Somme
Absolutism
John Locke
34. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Ptolemy
Final Solution
conscription
35. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Daimler and Benz
Enclosure movement
Red Russians
36. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer
fire at the Reichstag
Vladimir Lenin
37. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Tories
Spanish Civil War
First and Second International
Emelyn Pugachev
38. 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.
William and Catherine Booth
Napoleon
Kaiser Wilhelm I
X-Ray
39. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Emmeline Prankhurst
Nikita Khrushchev
Oliver Cromwell
40. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Russian Revolution
Austro-Piedmontese War
Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Disraeli
41. 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
Louis Philippe I
Legislative Assembly
English Civil War
Triple Entente
42. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Paris Commune
Galileo Galilei
Benito Mussolini
43. 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.
Central Powers.
Greek Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Revolution of 1848
44. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Committee of Public Safety
Louis Philippe I
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Directory
45. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Social Democratic Party
Adam Smith
Boer War
Steel
46. 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.
Leipzig
Assembly of Notables
Black Shirt March
conscription
47. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Easter Rising
Oliver Cromwell
Paris Commune
Kronstadt
48. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Final Solution
Charles Albert
Emelyn Pugachev
Chartist Movement
49. 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.
Edmund Burke
X-Ray
Stalingrad
Congress of Vienna
50. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Battle of the Bulge
Labour Party
Enclosure movement