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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.'
Paris Commune
Vladimir Lenin
English Civil War
Bishop Bossuet
2. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Quadruple Alliance
Franco-Prussian War
conscription
Factory Act
3. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
English Civil War
Ottoman empire dissolved
John Rockefeller
Georges Jacques Danton
4. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
James Watt
Kronstadt
Tories
Utilitarianism
5. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
The Glorious Revolution
Nikita Khrushchev
Catherine the Great
6. 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.
Thirty Years' War
Joseph Stalin
Volksgeist
Franco-Prussian War
7. A Jewish British prime minister.
Adam Smith
Benjamin Disraeli
Stalingrad
Petition of Rights
8. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Enigma
Treaty of Frankfurt
Marshall plan
Potsdam
9. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Louis XIV
Rene Descartes
Labour Party
Atlantic Charter
10. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
British East India Company
War of Austrian Succession
Warsaw Pact
Franz Ferdinand
11. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Russo-Japanese War
Chartist Movement
Georges Jacques Danton
Tories
12. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
John Locke
Revolution from Above
Thermidor
Emmeline Prankhurst
13. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Louis Philippe I
Legislative Assembly
Secularization
Warsaw Pact
14. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Vesalius
Ottoman empire dissolved
Franz Ferdinand
Vichy Regime
15. 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
Louis Philippe I
Ottoman empire dissolved
Triple Alliance
Spanish Civil War
16. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Greek Revolution
Friedrich Nietzsche
X-Ray
17. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Holy Alliance
Free French
Boer War
Edmund Burke
18. 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).
Russo-Japanese War
William and Catherine Booth
Assembly of Notables
Georges Jacques Danton
19. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
'Turnip' Townsend
Free French
Absolutism
Georges Jacques Danton
20. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Potsdam
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of London
Catherine the Great
21. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Georges Jacques Danton
vanguard
Daimler and Benz
Allied Powers
22. 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.
Treaty of London
Frederick the Great
Benito Mussolini
William and Catherine Booth
23. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Nikita Khrushchev
Boer War
Sir Francis Bacon
ancien regime
24. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Red Russians
Bishop Bossuet
Edmund Burke
Dual Monarchy
25. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Vladimir Lenin
John F. Kennedy
Soviet-Afghan War
Triple Alliance
26. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Triple Entente
Eastern Question
Dulce et Decorum Est
Home Rule
27. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Fascist Party
Greek Revolution
Continental System
Nazi
28. 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.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Cecil Rhodes.
Franco-Prussian War
Whigs
29. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Congress of Vienna
Blaise Pascal
Edward Gibbon
Berlin Conference
30. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Louis Philippe I
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Korean War
John F. Kennedy
31. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Panther
Treaty of London
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thermidor
32. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Edward Gibbon
Nikita Khrushchev
Johannes Kepler
Thomas Malthus
33. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
War of Austrian Succession
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Korean War
34. 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.
First and Second International
Black Shirt March
Spanish Civil War
Joseph II
35. 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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36. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
First and Second International
Heinrich Himmler
Social Democratic Party
37. 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.
Secularization
Charles Albert
Battle of Adowa
Eastern Question
38. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Jacobins
John Rockefeller
Catherine the Great
39. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Triple Entente
Revolution from Above
English Civil War
John Locke
40. 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.
North German Confederation
Reform Bill
Labour Party
Vladimir Lenin
41. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Lateran Pact
fire at the Reichstag
Charles X
42. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
'Turnip' Townsend
Thermidorian Reaction
Atlantic Charter
X-Ray
43. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Dual Monarchy
Nazi
'Turnip' Townsend
44. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Potsdam
Whigs
Vichy Regime
Quadruple Alliance
45. 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
ancien regime
Joseph Stalin
Revisionists
Crimean War
46. 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.
Edinburgh
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of London
47. 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
Potsdam
War of Austrian Succession
Lenin and Trotsky
Panther
48. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Blaise Pascal
Crimean War
Girondins
Ptolemy
49. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Absolutism
Reform Bill
50. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Brezhnev Doctrine
John Locke
Warsaw Pact
Count Cavour