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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Continental System
Robert Koch
Boer War
2. 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.'
Lateran Pact
Mary Wollstonecraft
Nikita Khrushchev
Napoleon
3. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Potsdam
John Rockefeller
Continental System
Isaac Newton
4. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Third International
Joseph II
Ferdinand VII
5. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Joseph Stalin
Black Shirt March
fire at the Reichstag
6. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
ultraroyalists
Steel
Reform Bill
Committee of Public Safety
7. 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.
North German Confederation
Axis Powers
French Revolution of 1848
Eastern Question
8. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Peter the Great
Volksgeist
Quadruple Alliance
Axis Powers
9. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Seven Weeks' War
Cecil Rhodes.
Legislative Assembly
Chartist Movement
10. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Rene Descartes
Daimler and Benz
Korean War
11. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Panther
Thomas Malthus
Seven Weeks' War
12. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Russian Revolution
Theodore Herzl
Vladimir Lenin
Ottoman empire dissolved
13. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Count Cavour
Boer War
Kronstadt
Soviet-Afghan War
14. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Marie Curie
Brezhnev Doctrine
Heinrich Himmler
Paris Commune
15. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Frederick the Great
Charles Albert
Concert of Europe
16. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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17. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
English Civil War
Daimler and Benz
Adolf Eichmann
Count Cavour
18. 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
Count Cavour
Edict of Nantes
Holy Alliance
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
19. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Dutch Republic
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sir Francis Bacon
20. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Franco-Prussian War
vanguard
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Thermidorian Reaction
21. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
Seven Weeks' War
Third International
Jean Paul Marat
22. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Enclosure movement
Thermidorian Reaction
Robert Koch
Boer War
23. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Napoleon
Jacobins
Panther
24. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Central Powers.
Triple Entente
Treaty of Paris
25. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Joseph II
John Stuart Mill
John Rockefeller
26. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Franco-Prussian War
Utilitarianism
Frederick the Great
27. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Stalingrad
Adolf Eichmann
Social Democratic Party
28. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Dutch Republic
Heinrich Himmler
Directory
Treaty of Frankfurt
29. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Lateran Pact
John Locke
Treaty of Frankfurt
Panther
30. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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31. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Secularization
Battle of the Bulge
Girondins
Spanish-American War
32. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
Paracelsus
Copernicus
ancien regime
Berlin Conference
33. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Frederick the Great
Fabian Society
Vesalius
Adolf Eichmann
34. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Charles Montesquieu
Leipzig
Thermidorian Reaction
Battle of Adowa
35. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Charles Albert
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Factory Act
36. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Treaty of Paris
Home Rule
Joseph II
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
37. 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.
Greek Revolution
John Locke
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Tilsit
38. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Frederick the Great
Edinburgh
Boer War
39. 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.
Greek Revolution
Russian Revolution
Emmeline Prankhurst
Francois Voltaire
40. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Central Powers.
Marie Curie
Reform Bill
41. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Austria-Hungary
Axis Powers
Johannes Kepler
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. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Revisionists
Joseph Stalin
Panther
Legislative Assembly
44. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Nikita Khrushchev
Crimean War
Girondins
45. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Vesalius
Louis Philippe I
Treaty of Frankfurt
Revolution from Above
46. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Revolution from Above
The War of Jenkin's Ear
William Gladstone
Potsdam
47. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Marie Curie
Spanish Civil War
Triple Entente
48. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Korean War
Galileo Galilei
Charles Albert
John Rockefeller
49. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
X-Ray
Chartist Movement
Greek Revolution
Nazi
50. 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.
Absolutism
Public Health Act
Greek Revolution
Galileo Galilei