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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Utilitarianism
Enclosure movement
Bradenburg-Prussia
Johannes Kepler
2. 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.
Allied Powers
Panther
Louis Philippe I
'Turnip' Townsend
3. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Home Rule
Oliver Cromwell
Brezhnev Doctrine
Cecil Rhodes.
4. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Volksgeist
Peter the Great
Steel
War of Austrian Succession
5. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Potsdam
Vladimir Lenin
Count Cavour
6. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Theodore Herzl
Thomas Malthus
Charles Montesquieu
7. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Joseph Stalin
Enigma
Social Democratic Party
Georges Jacques Danton
8. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Allied Powers
Eastern Question
Korean War
9. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Battle of the Bulge
Chartist Movement
Public Health Act
Marshall plan
10. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Charles X
Greek Revolution
Robert Koch
11. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Directory
Lusitania
John Locke
Austro-Piedmontese War
12. Britain and America
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Allied Powers
Austria-Hungary
Vesalius
13. 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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Spanish-American War
Zimmerman telegram
Treaty of Tilsit
14. Discovered radium.
Louis Philippe I
William and Catherine Booth
Labour Party
Marie Curie
15. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Dutch Republic
Emelyn Pugachev
Sergei Witte
16. 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
Franz Ferdinand
Directory
Ptolemy
Dutch Republic
17. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Bishop Bossuet
Allies
Secularization
Absolutism
18. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Joseph Stalin
Petition of Rights
Revolution from Above
Lusitania
19. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Public Health Act
Mary Wollstonecraft
Transcendentalists
Robert Koch
20. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Seven Weeks' War
Count Cavour
Thermidorian Reaction
Emelyn Pugachev
21. Extermination of the Jews.
Congress of Vienna
soviets
Easter Rising
Final Solution
22. 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
Ptolemy
Thomas Malthus
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Seven Year's War
23. 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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24. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Secularization
Allies
Transcendentalists
Jacobins
25. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Adolf Eichmann
Charles Albert
Greek Revolution
Triple Entente
26. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Peter the Great
Central Powers.
War of Austrian Succession
Public Health Act
27. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
John Stuart Mill
Allies
Continental System
Treaty of Tilsit
28. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Austria-Hungary
Oliver Cromwell
Sergei Witte
29. 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.
Central Powers.
Ptolemy
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Johannes Kepler
30. Germany - Italy - and Japan
X-Ray
Axis Powers
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Russo-Japanese War
31. 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.
Utilitarianism
Georges Jacques Danton
Joseph II
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
32. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
Ferdinand VII
'Turnip' Townsend
Louis Philippe I
33. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Dulce et Decorum Est
Nazi
Holy Alliance
34. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Whigs
Brezhnev Doctrine
Galileo Galilei
White Russians
35. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Declaration of Pillnitz
soviets
Georges Jacques Danton
Axis Powers
36. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Paracelsus
Edmund Burke
Sir Francis Bacon
Revolution from Above
37. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Steel
Directory
Black Shirt March
Napoleon
38. 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
Catherine the Great
Franz Ferdinand
Zimmerman telegram
Public Health Act
39. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Revolution from Above
Rene Descartes
Vladimir Lenin
Paracelsus
40. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Congress of Vienna
Stalingrad
English Civil War
41. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Legislative Assembly
Vichy Regime
Declaration of Pillnitz
Lenin and Trotsky
42. 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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43. 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.
ancien regime
Panther
Continental System
Thirty Years' War
44. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Thermidorian Reaction
Stalingrad
Austro-Piedmontese War
45. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Black Shirt March
Peter the Great
Bradenburg-Prussia
46. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Paracelsus
Thermidor
Atlantic Charter
Kulaks
47. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Zimmerman telegram
Franz Ferdinand
Emmeline Prankhurst
Secularization
48. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Edinburgh
Vladimir Lenin
Louis XIV
49. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Isaac Newton
Treaty of London
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Berlin Conference
50. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Jean Paul Marat
Isaac Newton
Battle of the Somme
Korean War