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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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2. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Panther
First and Second International
Edict of Nantes
Allied Powers
3. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Committee of Public Safety
Ptolemy
Transcendentalists
4. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Marie Curie
Edward Gibbon
War of Austrian Succession
Soviet-Afghan War
5. 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.
North German Confederation
Panther
Heinrich Himmler
War of Austrian Succession
6. Extermination of the Jews.
War of Austrian Succession
Battle of Adowa
Ottoman empire dissolved
Final Solution
7. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Edict of Nantes
Volksgeist
Directory
Enigma
8. 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.
Daimler and Benz
Concert of Europe
Joseph II
Holy Alliance
9. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Greek Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Sergei Witte
Home Rule
10. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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11. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ottoman empire dissolved
Public Health Act
Benjamin Disraeli
Ptolemy
12. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Red Russians
Committee of Public Safety
Central Powers.
soviets
13. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Committee of Public Safety
John Locke
William Gladstone
Panther
14. 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
Utilitarianism
Sir Francis Bacon
Louis XIV
Spanish Civil War
15. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Benjamin Disraeli
Tories
Johannes Kepler
Theodore Herzl
16. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Spanish-American War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
ancien regime
Crimean War
17. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ptolemy
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
18. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Holy Alliance
Berlin Conference
Edmund Burke
Daimler and Benz
19. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Charles Albert
Treaty of Tilsit
Johannes Kepler
Red Russians
20. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Warsaw Pact
Absolutism
Quadruple Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
21. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
Paracelsus
ultraroyalists
Lateran Pact
22. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
ultraroyalists
Cecil Rhodes.
John F. Kennedy
Kaiser Wilhelm I
23. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
soviets
Brezhnev Doctrine
Dutch Republic
Treaty of London
24. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Potsdam
Jacobins
Secularization
Soviet-Afghan War
25. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Sergei Witte
North German Confederation
Emmanuel Sieyes
26. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Warsaw Pact
Revisionists
Herbert Spencer
Emmanuel Sieyes
27. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Count Cavour
Directory
Revisionists
28. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
New Economic Policy
Legislative Assembly
Francois Voltaire
The War of Jenkin's Ear
29. 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.
Black Shirt March
Friedrich Nietzsche
Tories
Cecil Rhodes.
30. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Charles X
Dual Monarchy
Korean War
Catherine the Great
31. A military draft
ultraroyalists
Chartist Movement
Red Russians
conscription
32. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Steel
Austro-Piedmontese War
The Glorious Revolution
Transcendentalists
33. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Potsdam
Central Powers.
Sergei Witte
Paracelsus
34. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Stalingrad
Chartist Movement
Committee of Public Safety
Louis Philippe I
35. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Treaty of Tilsit
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Atlantic Charter
fire at the Reichstag
36. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
The Glorious Revolution
Utilitarianism
Austria-Hungary
Kulaks
37. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Dual Monarchy
Frederick the Great
Charles Montesquieu
38. 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.
Adam Smith
Gottfried Leibniz
Axis Powers
John Stuart Mill
39. 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.
Herbert Spencer
Fascist Party
Napoleon
Marshall plan
40. 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.
Transcendentalists
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Herbert Spencer
Franz Ferdinand
41. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Louis Philippe I
Absolutism
Dual Monarchy
Battle of the Somme
42. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Home Rule
Labour Party
Edmund Burke
43. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Secularization
Russo-Japanese War
Thermidor
Charles Albert
44. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Andrew Carnegie
Volksgeist
Emmanuel Sieyes
Berlin Conference
45. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Charles Albert
Blaise Pascal
Robert Koch
46. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
English Civil War
Gottfried Leibniz
Treaty of Paris
Daimler and Benz
47. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Continental System
Louis XIV
Eastern Question
48. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Soviet-Afghan War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Emmeline Prankhurst
Congress of Vienna
49. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Triple Entente
Battle of Adowa
Girondins
50. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of Adowa
Catherine the Great
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