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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Korean War
Allies
vanguard
2. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Declaration of Pillnitz
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blaise Pascal
3. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
'Turnip' Townsend
Charles X
Central Powers.
Steel
4. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Continental System
The Glorious Revolution
Catherine the Great
5. 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
Enclosure movement
vanguard
French Revolution of 1848
6. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
War of Austrian Succession
Free French
Petition of Rights
Concert of Europe
7. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Vichy Regime
Emmeline Prankhurst
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Edinburgh
8. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Catherine the Great
Red Russians
Jacobins
Eastern Question
9. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Fascist Party
Georges Jacques Danton
Committee of Public Safety
Austria-Hungary
10. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Axis Powers
Black Shirt March
Blaise Pascal
Rene Descartes
11. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of the Bulge
Joseph Stalin
12. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Kulaks
Franco-Prussian War
Greek Revolution
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
13. 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.
Secularization
Petition of Rights
Adolf Eichmann
Isaac Newton
14. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Revisionists
Allies
Paris Commune
15. 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.
Fabian Society
Transcendentalists
Soviet-Afghan War
Mary Wollstonecraft
16. 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
soviets
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joseph Stalin
Giuseppe Mazzini
17. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Robert Koch
Allied Powers
Red Russians
18. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Crimean War
Adolf Eichmann
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Battle of the Somme
19. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
New Economic Policy
Greek Revolution
Austro-Piedmontese War
Giuseppe Mazzini
20. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Nazi
Franz Ferdinand
Axis Powers
21. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Catherine the Great
Whigs
James Watt
22. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
vanguard
Girondins
Directory
Vesalius
23. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Axis Powers
Lenin and Trotsky
Peter the Great
24. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Edict of Nantes
First and Second International
The Glorious Revolution
Franz Ferdinand
25. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Black Shirt March
Directory
Marie Curie
Brezhnev Doctrine
26. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Marie Curie
Spanish-American War
Andrew Carnegie
Lenin and Trotsky
27. Britain and America
Battle of the Somme
Allied Powers
Brezhnev Doctrine
Giueseppe Garibaldi
28. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Oliver Cromwell
Gottfried Leibniz
Committee of Public Safety
Blaise Pascal
29. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Secularization
Legislative Assembly
Enclosure movement
Adam Smith
30. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Gottfried Leibniz
ultraroyalists
Ferdinand VII
Treaty of Paris
31. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Legislative Assembly
Battle of the Somme
Declaration of Pillnitz
Ptolemy
32. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Congress of Vienna
Greek Revolution
Franco-Prussian War
33. A military draft
Theodore Herzl
conscription
Battle of the Bulge
Kronstadt
34. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Easter Rising
Seven Weeks' War
Battle of Adowa
William Gladstone
35. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Ptolemy
Thomas Malthus
Heinrich Himmler
Central Powers.
36. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Nazi
North German Confederation
Paris Commune
37. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Legislative Assembly
Lusitania
Black Shirt March
38. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Jean Paul Marat
Allies
Free French
Triple Alliance
39. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Public Health Act
Fabian Society
Directory
40. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Steel
Jean Paul Marat
Treaty of London
Atlantic Charter
41. 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.
Jacobins
Berlin Conference
Emelyn Pugachev
Girondins
42. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Denis Diderot
Charles X
soviets
43. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Ferdinand VII
Korean War
X-Ray
Frederick the Great
44. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Volksgeist
Third International
Denis Diderot
Public Health Act
45. 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.
Paracelsus
British East India Company
Nikita Khrushchev
Petition of Rights
46. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Fabian Society
ancien regime
James Watt
Warsaw Pact
47. Germany - Italy - and Japan
First and Second International
Final Solution
Triple Entente
Axis Powers
48. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
English Civil War
Concert of Europe
Social Democratic Party
Utilitarianism
49. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Thirty Years' War
Adolf Eichmann
Treaty of Frankfurt
White Russians
50. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
fire at the Reichstag
Reform Bill
British East India Company