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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.






2. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.






3. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.






4. 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.






5. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.






6. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI






7. 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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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.






9. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.






10. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'






11. 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.






12. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.






13. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.






14. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.






15. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.






16. Important ZIONIST.






17. 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.






18. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.






19. Greater freedom for Ireland.






20. Discovered radium.






21. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.






22. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






23. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.






24. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.






25. Extermination of the Jews.






26. Invented CROP ROTATION.

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27. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.






28. 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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29. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.






30. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.






31. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.






32. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.






33. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.






34. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.






35. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.






36. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.






40. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.






41. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.






42. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.






43. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.






44. Founded the Salvation Army






45. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.






46. 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.






47. 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).






48. 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.






49. 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






50. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME