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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emelyn Pugachev
Holy Alliance
Mary Wollstonecraft
2. 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
Absolutism
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
3. 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
Joseph II
Emmanuel Sieyes
Benjamin Disraeli
4. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Reform Bill
Louis Philippe I
Austria-Hungary
Thermidor
5. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
French Revolution of 1848
Rene Descartes
New Economic Policy
Vladimir Lenin
6. 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.
Count Cavour
Ptolemy
Louis Philippe I
Emmanuel Sieyes
7. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Ptolemy
Panther
Atlantic Charter
8. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Seven Weeks' War
Thomas Malthus
Georges Jacques Danton
Bradenburg-Prussia
9. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Boer War
Russo-Japanese War
Robert Koch
Declaration of Pillnitz
10. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Daimler and Benz
Kronstadt
White Russians
Paracelsus
11. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Concert of Europe
Nazi
Factory Act
Ptolemy
12. 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
Central Powers.
Secularization
Battle of Adowa
13. 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
Charles Montesquieu
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Marie Curie
Allies
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
Spanish Civil War
Vichy Regime
Charles Albert
Cecil Rhodes.
15. 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
Robert Koch
Paris Commune
Emmeline Prankhurst
16. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Red Russians
Boer War
Whigs
Eastern Question
17. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Louis XIV
Daimler and Benz
Heinrich Himmler
Ferdinand VII
18. 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
Dutch Republic
Charles Montesquieu
Factory Act
Red Russians
19. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Vichy Regime
Francois Voltaire
Count Cavour
Nikita Khrushchev
20. 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.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Edict of Nantes
Panther
Battle of Adowa
21. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Andrew Carnegie
Triple Entente
Kronstadt
Blaise Pascal
22. 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.
Dutch Republic
Tories
vanguard
Blaise Pascal
23. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Congress of Vienna
vanguard
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Thermidorian Reaction
24. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Allies
Vesalius
Count Cavour
25. 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.
Marie Curie
Quadruple Alliance
Georges Jacques Danton
Napoleon
26. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Greek Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
27. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
William and Catherine Booth
Nazi
Enclosure movement
Isaac Newton
28. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Adolf Eichmann
Johannes Kepler
Vladimir Lenin
Directory
29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Allied Powers
Emmanuel Sieyes
Treaty of Paris
Triple Alliance
30. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Charles Albert
Holy Alliance
Congress of Vienna
John Locke
31. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Rene Descartes
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Thermidorian Reaction
32. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Tories
Paris Commune
Benito Mussolini
Theodore Herzl
33. 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.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Girondins
Russian Revolution
X-Ray
34. 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.
Tories
Thomas Malthus
Transcendentalists
Third International
35. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Triple Entente
Nazi
Home Rule
Free French
36. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Vesalius
Russian Revolution
Triple Alliance
37. 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.
Jacobins
Franco-Prussian War
Kronstadt
Charles Montesquieu
38. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Edmund Burke
Boer War
Benjamin Disraeli
39. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Marie Curie
Concert of Europe
John F. Kennedy
40. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Robert Koch
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of Paris
41. 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
Jacobins
Jean Paul Marat
Thermidor
North German Confederation
42. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Zimmerman telegram
Adolf Eichmann
Thermidor
43. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert Koch
Utilitarianism
44. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Girondins
Andrew Carnegie
Emmeline Prankhurst
Red Russians
45. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Oliver Cromwell
Emmeline Prankhurst
Gottfried Leibniz
46. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
soviets
Zimmerman telegram
Red Russians
James Watt
47. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Frederick the Great
Treaty of Tilsit
Enigma
Triple Entente
48. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
British East India Company
Bradenburg-Prussia
X-Ray
49. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Bishop Bossuet
Crimean War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Utilitarianism
50. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Petition of Rights
Warsaw Pact
Secularization
Emmeline Prankhurst