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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Spanish Civil War
Andrew Carnegie
Russian Revolution
Seven Weeks' War
2. 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
Charles Montesquieu
Paris Commune
Declaration of Pillnitz
3. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Giuseppe Mazzini
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Emmanuel Sieyes
4. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Edict of Nantes
Volksgeist
Greek Revolution
5. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Isaac Newton
Third International
Atlantic Charter
6. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Directory
Lenin and Trotsky
Ferdinand VII
Assembly of Notables
7. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Committee of Public Safety
Paris Commune
Ptolemy
Russian Revolution
8. 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.
Frederick the Great
Benito Mussolini
Paracelsus
Central Powers.
9. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Greek Revolution
Dual Monarchy
Panther
Franco-Prussian War
10. (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
Oliver Cromwell
Adolf Eichmann
War of Austrian Succession
Joseph II
11. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Concert of Europe
Petition of Rights
Quadruple Alliance
12. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Boer War
ancien regime
Seven Weeks' War
John F. Kennedy
13. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Rene Descartes
Austro-Piedmontese War
Edward Gibbon
Seven Weeks' War
14. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Berlin Conference
Utilitarianism
Peter the Great
Social Democratic Party
15. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Axis Powers
Congress of Vienna
Revisionists
The War of Jenkin's Ear
16. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
Soviet-Afghan War
Red Russians
Louis Philippe I
17. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Joseph II
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Thirty Years' War
18. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
North German Confederation
Soviet-Afghan War
Charles X
Treaty of London
19. 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.
John Rockefeller
Vesalius
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Assembly of Notables
20. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Quadruple Alliance
Louis XIV
Social Democratic Party
21. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Volksgeist
Battle of the Bulge
Secularization
Berlin Conference
22. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Giuseppe Mazzini
Thermidor
ultraroyalists
23. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Treaty of Paris
Potsdam
Napoleon
Lusitania
24. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Edinburgh
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
John F. Kennedy
25. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Francois Voltaire
Easter Rising
Black Shirt March
Giueseppe Garibaldi
26. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Herbert Spencer
Copernicus
Petition of Rights
27. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Charles Montesquieu
Vichy Regime
Gottfried Leibniz
fire at the Reichstag
28. Britain and America
soviets
Paris Commune
Allied Powers
John Rockefeller
29. 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.
Assembly of Notables
French Revolution of 1848
Volksgeist
Edward Gibbon
30. 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.
Denis Diderot
Seven Year's War
Emelyn Pugachev
Bradenburg-Prussia
31. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Chartist Movement
Kaiser Wilhelm I
English Civil War
Labour Party
32. 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.
Johannes Kepler
Continental System
Oliver Cromwell
Franco-Prussian War
33. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Louis XIV
John Locke
Easter Rising
34. 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.
Korean War
Battle of the Somme
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Marie Curie
35. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Sergei Witte
conscription
Paris Commune
36. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Russo-Japanese War
Public Health Act
Cecil Rhodes.
37. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Oliver Cromwell
First and Second International
Dulce et Decorum Est
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
38. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Ptolemy
Rene Descartes
Giueseppe Garibaldi
French Revolution of 1848
39. 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
Allied Powers
Kronstadt
Andrew Carnegie
40. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Frederick the Great
Final Solution
The Glorious Revolution
William Gladstone
41. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Declaration of Pillnitz
Reform Bill
Nikita Khrushchev
42. 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
Stalingrad
Axis Powers
Rene Descartes
43. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Russo-Japanese War
Enclosure movement
Boer War
First and Second International
44. 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
Jacobins
Seven Year's War
Edict of Nantes
45. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Blaise Pascal
Franz Ferdinand
Spanish-American War
Galileo Galilei
46. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
47. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Tories
Ferdinand VII
Brezhnev Doctrine
Adolf Eichmann
48. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Bulge
Stalingrad
Central Powers.
49. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Leipzig
fire at the Reichstag
Benito Mussolini
Dual Monarchy
50. Extermination of the Jews.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Final Solution
Robert Koch