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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Congress of Vienna
Battle of the Somme
Crimean War
Charles Albert
2. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
First and Second International
Brezhnev Doctrine
Emelyn Pugachev
Battle of Adowa
3. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Russo-Japanese War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Sergei Witte
4. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
Peter the Great
Andrew Carnegie
Soviet-Afghan War
5. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Kulaks
Friedrich Nietzsche
Adolf Eichmann
vanguard
6. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Red Russians
Absolutism
Petition of Rights
Vladimir Lenin
7. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Lusitania
'Turnip' Townsend
Chartist Movement
Potsdam
8. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Franco-Prussian War
Paris Commune
Boer War
9. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Daimler and Benz
Volksgeist
Joseph Stalin
10. 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.
Continental System
Utilitarianism
Warsaw Pact
Louis Philippe I
11. 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.
Volksgeist
Stalingrad
Enigma
French Revolution of 1848
12. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Lateran Pact
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Heinrich Himmler
Sir Francis Bacon
13. 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.
Third International
Social Democratic Party
Whigs
Russian Revolution
14. 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.
Edmund Burke
North German Confederation
Black Shirt March
Battle of the Bulge
15. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Paracelsus
Copernicus
Charles Albert
Factory Act
16. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Battle of Adowa
First and Second International
Absolutism
Girondins
17. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Peter the Great
Fascist Party
Panther
18. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Franco-Prussian War
Nazi
Frederick the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
19. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Johannes Kepler
British East India Company
Fabian Society
Battle of the Somme
20. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Vesalius
X-Ray
Atlantic Charter
Fabian Society
21. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lenin and Trotsky
Lusitania
Count Cavour
Thomas Malthus
22. 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
Assembly of Notables
Zimmerman telegram
Fascist Party
ancien regime
23. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Berlin Conference
Adam Smith
Lateran Pact
fire at the Reichstag
24. Britain and America
Catherine the Great
Oliver Cromwell
Allied Powers
Emmeline Prankhurst
25. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Kulaks
Giuseppe Mazzini
Denis Diderot
26. 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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27. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
William Gladstone
Treaty of Frankfurt
Directory
Kaiser Wilhelm I
28. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Committee of Public Safety
Soviet-Afghan War
Red Russians
29. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Steel
Count Cavour
Greek Revolution
30. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
White Russians
Rene Descartes
Quadruple Alliance
Chartist Movement
31. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Jean Paul Marat
Congress of Vienna
Utilitarianism
32. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Triple Entente
Dual Monarchy
Greek Revolution
Berlin Conference
33. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Enclosure movement
Copernicus
Theodore Herzl
34. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Directory
Lusitania
Ptolemy
Eastern Question
35. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Transcendentalists
Revolution from Above
Napoleon
36. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Edmund Burke
Cecil Rhodes.
English Civil War
37. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Isaac Newton
Congress of Vienna
Edmund Burke
Austro-Hungarian Empire
38. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Volksgeist
Spanish Civil War
Declaration of Pillnitz
John Locke
39. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Sir Francis Bacon
Francois Voltaire
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
40. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Sergei Witte
Transcendentalists
Giuseppe Mazzini
41. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Franco-Prussian War
Easter Rising
Battle of Adowa
42. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Spanish Civil War
John Stuart Mill
Factory Act
43. 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.
Triple Alliance
Franco-Prussian War
Transcendentalists
Ptolemy
44. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Petition of Rights
Legislative Assembly
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Red Russians
45. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Social Democratic Party
Paracelsus
X-Ray
Francois Voltaire
46. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
James Watt
Zimmerman telegram
Treaty of London
Korean War
47. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Treaty of Frankfurt
Central Powers.
Joseph II
Vesalius
48. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Count Cavour
Social Democratic Party
Assembly of Notables
49. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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50. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Concert of Europe
Allied Powers
Peter the Great
Final Solution