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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Paris Commune
Allies
William Gladstone
Emmanuel Sieyes
2. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Treaty of Frankfurt
Franz Ferdinand
Oliver Cromwell
3. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Tories
Herbert Spencer
Petition of Rights
Treaty of Tilsit
4. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Denis Diderot
Giuseppe Mazzini
Allies
5. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Copernicus
Eastern Question
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
War of Austrian Succession
North German Confederation
Black Shirt March
Franz Ferdinand
7. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Quadruple Alliance
North German Confederation
Axis Powers
8. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Treaty of London
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Sir Francis Bacon
Benito Mussolini
9. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Blaise Pascal
Warsaw Pact
Home Rule
William Gladstone
10. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
conscription
Eastern Question
French Revolution of 1848
Zimmerman telegram
11. 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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12. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Herbert Spencer
Treaty of Tilsit
Warsaw Pact
13. 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.
Crimean War
Allied Powers
ancien regime
Treaty of Frankfurt
14. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Secularization
Ferdinand VII
Chartist Movement
Third International
15. 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.
War of Austrian Succession
Central Powers.
Joseph II
Dual Monarchy
16. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Atlantic Charter
Count Cavour
William Gladstone
Heinrich Himmler
17. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Absolutism
Giuseppe Mazzini
Dulce et Decorum Est
Edward Gibbon
18. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Thermidorian Reaction
Red Russians
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
North German Confederation
19. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Russian Revolution
Zimmerman telegram
Emmanuel Sieyes
Leipzig
20. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Rene Descartes
Sergei Witte
Napoleon
Continental System
21. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Petition of Rights
Red Russians
Enigma
Oliver Cromwell
22. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Malthus
First and Second International
Mary Wollstonecraft
23. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Triple Alliance
John F. Kennedy
Joseph Stalin
Soviet-Afghan War
24. 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
Peter the Great
Dutch Republic
Panther
Petition of Rights
25. 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.
vanguard
Girondins
Bradenburg-Prussia
Denis Diderot
26. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Dutch Republic
Denis Diderot
Emmeline Prankhurst
Kulaks
27. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Francois Voltaire
James Watt
conscription
Kronstadt
28. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Panther
Battle of Adowa
Lusitania
29. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Emmanuel Sieyes
ultraroyalists
Jean Paul Marat
30. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Frederick the Great
Bradenburg-Prussia
soviets
Fascist Party
31. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Thomas Malthus
War of Austrian Succession
Assembly of Notables
Absolutism
32. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Dulce et Decorum Est
fire at the Reichstag
Steel
33. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Holy Alliance
Emmanuel Sieyes
Battle of the Somme
Emmeline Prankhurst
34. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Korean War
Galileo Galilei
Steel
New Economic Policy
35. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Francois Voltaire
Treaty of London
Georges Jacques Danton
Assembly of Notables
36. 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.
Panther
Red Russians
Count Cavour
Eastern Question
37. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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38. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Oliver Cromwell
Public Health Act
Soviet-Afghan War
Lateran Pact
39. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Adolf Eichmann
Dutch Republic
Franz Ferdinand
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
40. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Dutch Republic
Sir Francis Bacon
Stalingrad
41. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Francois Voltaire
Ptolemy
Lenin and Trotsky
Secularization
42. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
North German Confederation
John Stuart Mill
Frederick the Great
43. A Jewish British prime minister.
Zimmerman telegram
Crimean War
Kulaks
Benjamin Disraeli
44. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Labour Party
Atlantic Charter
Count Cavour
45. 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
Volksgeist
Kronstadt
'Turnip' Townsend
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
46. 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
Edmund Burke
Girondins
vanguard
Joseph Stalin
47. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Dutch Republic
Nazi
Black Shirt March
Heinrich Himmler
48. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Thermidorian Reaction
Declaration of Pillnitz
Concert of Europe
49. 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.
Easter Rising
ultraroyalists
Treaty of Tilsit
Greek Revolution
50. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Paris Commune
Committee of Public Safety
Stalingrad