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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Marshall plan
Benito Mussolini
Louis XIV
2. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Congress of Vienna
Spanish Civil War
Cecil Rhodes.
3. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Black Shirt March
Treaty of London
Boer War
Reform Bill
4. 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
Secularization
Lenin and Trotsky
Dutch Republic
William Gladstone
5. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
soviets
Count Cavour
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
6. 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
Allies
Joseph Stalin
Joseph II
Axis Powers
7. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Malthus
Declaration of Pillnitz
Russo-Japanese War
8. 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
Congress of Vienna
Ptolemy
John Rockefeller
9. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Jacobins
John Rockefeller
10. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Allies
John Rockefeller
Count Cavour
11. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Soviet-Afghan War
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reform Bill
Triple Alliance
12. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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13. 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.
Napoleon
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Congress of Vienna
fire at the Reichstag
14. 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
New Economic Policy
Berlin Conference
Edict of Nantes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
15. A Jewish British prime minister.
Blaise Pascal
ancien regime
Robert Koch
Benjamin Disraeli
16. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Chartist Movement
Leipzig
Allied Powers
17. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Benjamin Disraeli
Continental System
Benito Mussolini
First and Second International
18. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
James Watt
Factory Act
Committee of Public Safety
Lenin and Trotsky
19. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Nikita Khrushchev
Zimmerman telegram
Robert Koch
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
20. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Peter the Great
Atlantic Charter
Austro-Piedmontese War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
21. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Legislative Assembly
John F. Kennedy
Bishop Bossuet
Thirty Years' War
22. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Congress of Vienna
Jean Paul Marat
Dual Monarchy
23. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
ultraroyalists
Reform Bill
Leipzig
24. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Transcendentalists
Public Health Act
ultraroyalists
25. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Revisionists
Nikita Khrushchev
Bishop Bossuet
conscription
26. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
John F. Kennedy
Fabian Society
William and Catherine Booth
North German Confederation
27. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Eastern Question
Edmund Burke
Potsdam
William and Catherine Booth
28. Britain and America
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edict of Nantes
Denis Diderot
Allied Powers
29. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Seven Weeks' War
Potsdam
Assembly of Notables
30. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vichy Regime
Johannes Kepler
Gottfried Leibniz
31. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Absolutism
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
32. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Spanish Civil War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Revolution from Above
John Locke
33. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Daimler and Benz
Bradenburg-Prussia
Cecil Rhodes.
English Civil War
34. 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
Edinburgh
Kaiser Wilhelm I
vanguard
Zimmerman telegram
35. 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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36. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Emmeline Prankhurst
Revisionists
Peter the Great
37. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Treaty of Tilsit
Rene Descartes
Emmeline Prankhurst
38. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Social Democratic Party
Thomas Malthus
War of Austrian Succession
Soviet-Afghan War
39. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Napoleon
Franco-Prussian War
Treaty of Tilsit
Battle of Adowa
40. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cecil Rhodes.
James Watt
41. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dual Monarchy
Berlin Conference
Russian Revolution
42. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Eastern Question
Enclosure movement
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of the Bulge
43. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Petition of Rights
Labour Party
Berlin Conference
conscription
44. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Joseph Stalin
Sir Francis Bacon
Panther
Fabian Society
45. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Crimean War
Boer War
Mary Wollstonecraft
46. Extermination of the Jews.
ancien regime
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of Frankfurt
Final Solution
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).
Black Shirt March
Third International
Georges Jacques Danton
conscription
48. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Revisionists
Battle of the Bulge
Whigs
49. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Reform Bill
Red Russians
Thermidorian Reaction
Continental System
50. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Franz Ferdinand
Boer War
Revisionists
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