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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. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
English Civil War
Zimmerman telegram
Adolf Eichmann
3. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Free French
Triple Entente
Bradenburg-Prussia
Legislative Assembly
4. 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.
Lateran Pact
Sergei Witte
Franco-Prussian War
Chartist Movement
5. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Blaise Pascal
First and Second International
Thomas Malthus
Quadruple Alliance
6. 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.
Catherine the Great
Nikita Khrushchev
Stalingrad
Warsaw Pact
7. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
First and Second International
Sergei Witte
Fascist Party
Peter the Great
8. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Thirty Years' War
Revolution from Above
James Watt
The War of Jenkin's Ear
9. 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.
John Locke
Transcendentalists
Jean Paul Marat
French Revolution of 1848
10. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
British East India Company
Reform Bill
Herbert Spencer
Public Health Act
11. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
War of Austrian Succession
Edmund Burke
Congress of Vienna
12. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Dulce et Decorum Est
John F. Kennedy
Free French
Zimmerman telegram
13. A military draft
Dual Monarchy
conscription
Spanish Civil War
Thirty Years' War
14. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Heinrich Himmler
Battle of the Somme
15. 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
Continental System
Adam Smith
Greek Revolution
16. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Peter the Great
Leipzig
ancien regime
Cecil Rhodes.
17. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Lusitania
New Economic Policy
Francois Voltaire
Panther
18. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
War of Austrian Succession
Atlantic Charter
Copernicus
19. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
John F. Kennedy
Brezhnev Doctrine
Dulce et Decorum Est
vanguard
20. 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.
Volksgeist
Blaise Pascal
Giueseppe Garibaldi
William and Catherine Booth
21. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Robert Koch
Soviet-Afghan War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Dulce et Decorum Est
22. 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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23. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lusitania
Chartist Movement
Thermidor
24. 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.
soviets
Lateran Pact
Spanish-American War
Panther
25. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Axis Powers
Secularization
Committee of Public Safety
William and Catherine Booth
26. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Concert of Europe
Thermidor
Charles Albert
Franco-Prussian War
27. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Charles Montesquieu
Franz Ferdinand
Napoleon
28. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
William Gladstone
Giuseppe Mazzini
Franz Ferdinand
29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
fire at the Reichstag
Treaty of Paris
Edict of Nantes
Seven Weeks' War
30. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
New Economic Policy
Boer War
Seven Weeks' War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Boer War
Spanish Civil War
Petition of Rights
Friedrich Nietzsche
32. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Rockefeller
John Stuart Mill
Leipzig
Tories
33. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Home Rule
Brezhnev Doctrine
Edict of Nantes
34. Founded the Salvation Army
Potsdam
William and Catherine Booth
Quadruple Alliance
Thomas Malthus
35. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Enclosure movement
John F. Kennedy
Edict of Nantes
Emelyn Pugachev
36. 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
Holy Alliance
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Leipzig
Third International
37. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Berlin Conference
Continental System
soviets
John F. Kennedy
38. Important ZIONIST.
Edinburgh
Transcendentalists
First and Second International
Theodore Herzl
39. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Vladimir Lenin
Committee of Public Safety
Fabian Society
Zimmerman telegram
40. 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
Count Cavour
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Eastern Question
Ferdinand VII
41. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Final Solution
Ptolemy
Dutch Republic
Vichy Regime
42. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Treaty of Tilsit
Franco-Prussian War
British East India Company
Adam Smith
43. 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.
Charles X
Louis XIV
Jean Paul Marat
Red Russians
44. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Benito Mussolini
Assembly of Notables
Continental System
The Glorious Revolution
45. 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.
Labour Party
Crimean War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Revolution from Above
46. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Revolution from Above
Vichy Regime
Revisionists
47. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Petition of Rights
New Economic Policy
Potsdam
48. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Vesalius
Spanish Civil War
Thermidorian Reaction
Ottoman empire dissolved
49. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Black Shirt March
Heinrich Himmler
Herbert Spencer
Declaration of Pillnitz
50. 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
Social Democratic Party
Franco-Prussian War
Paris Commune
Dutch Republic