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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Revisionists
Utilitarianism
Warsaw Pact
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
2. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Quadruple Alliance
French Revolution of 1848
Red Russians
Triple Alliance
3. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Lateran Pact
Thermidor
Nazi
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
4. 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.'
Georges Jacques Danton
Austro-Piedmontese War
Adam Smith
Bishop Bossuet
5. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Black Shirt March
fire at the Reichstag
Revolution from Above
Denis Diderot
6. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Catherine the Great
Bishop Bossuet
Central Powers.
Factory Act
7. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Soviet-Afghan War
Free French
Treaty of Tilsit
Charles Montesquieu
8. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Francois Voltaire
Boer War
Paris Commune
9. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Marie Curie
William and Catherine Booth
Louis XIV
Vladimir Lenin
10. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Assembly of Notables
Charles Montesquieu
North German Confederation
Lenin and Trotsky
11. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Legislative Assembly
Adolf Eichmann
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
12. 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.
Louis XIV
Soviet-Afghan War
Seven Year's War
Jean Paul Marat
13. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Legislative Assembly
Denis Diderot
Axis Powers
New Economic Policy
14. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Battle of the Bulge
'Turnip' Townsend
Thermidor
Denis Diderot
15. 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
Potsdam
Treaty of Tilsit
Emelyn Pugachev
ancien regime
16. 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
The Glorious Revolution
English Civil War
Bishop Bossuet
Fabian Society
17. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Allied Powers
ancien regime
Paracelsus
Russian Revolution
18. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Treaty of London
Spanish Civil War
Napoleon
19. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Concert of Europe
James Watt
20. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Charles X
Labour Party
Public Health Act
21. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Louis XIV
Stalingrad
British East India Company
Public Health Act
22. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Marie Curie
First and Second International
Ottoman empire dissolved
Charles Montesquieu
23. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Dual Monarchy
Charles Montesquieu
Edict of Nantes
Continental System
24. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Paracelsus
Andrew Carnegie
Easter Rising
Legislative Assembly
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
Battle of Adowa
Seven Year's War
Denis Diderot
26. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Congress of Vienna
ultraroyalists
Ottoman empire dissolved
Axis Powers
27. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Revolution from Above
Factory Act
Social Democratic Party
Eastern Question
28. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Greek Revolution
Gottfried Leibniz
Joseph II
29. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Directory
Battle of Adowa
Ptolemy
Catherine the Great
30. 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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31. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Secularization
Edmund Burke
Revolution from Above
32. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Glorious Revolution
William and Catherine Booth
Robert Koch
33. 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
ancien regime
Spanish Civil War
John Locke
Russo-Japanese War
34. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
X-Ray
Dual Monarchy
Rene Descartes
Jacobins
35. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Berlin Conference
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kronstadt
Austria-Hungary
36. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Joseph II
Kronstadt
Continental System
37. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
First and Second International
Absolutism
Crimean War
John Stuart Mill
38. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
conscription
Emmanuel Sieyes
ultraroyalists
39. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Concert of Europe
Russo-Japanese War
Home Rule
Zimmerman telegram
40. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
soviets
Jacobins
Eastern Question
41. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Austro-Piedmontese War
Theodore Herzl
Austria-Hungary
42. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Russian Revolution
Revolution from Above
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Fabian Society
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.
Continental System
Count Cavour
Black Shirt March
Russian Revolution
44. 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
Absolutism
Panther
John Locke
The Glorious Revolution
45. 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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46. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Spanish Civil War
Franco-Prussian War
Thirty Years' War
47. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
First and Second International
Charles Albert
Louis Philippe I
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.
Charles X
Reform Bill
Treaty of Paris
X-Ray
49. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Black Shirt March
Secularization
Giuseppe Mazzini
Zimmerman telegram
50. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Nazi
Berlin Conference
James Watt
Steel