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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
James Watt
Robert Koch
Russian Revolution
Nazi
2. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Count Cavour
Axis Powers
Ottoman empire dissolved
Chartist Movement
3. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
White Russians
Battle of the Bulge
Joseph Stalin
Jacobins
4. 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.
'Turnip' Townsend
Rene Descartes
Charles X
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Girondins
Joseph Stalin
James Watt
Bradenburg-Prussia
6. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
conscription
Treaty of Tilsit
Crimean War
7. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Cecil Rhodes.
Atlantic Charter
Peter the Great
Battle of the Somme
8. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Gottfried Leibniz
The Glorious Revolution
Triple Alliance
Seven Year's War
9. 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
Spanish Civil War
Louis Philippe I
Emmanuel Sieyes
10. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Theodore Herzl
North German Confederation
Petition of Rights
11. 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.
Marie Curie
William Gladstone
Petition of Rights
French Revolution of 1848
12. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Assembly of Notables
Catherine the Great
Vladimir Lenin
13. 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.
Blaise Pascal
North German Confederation
Joseph Stalin
Allied Powers
14. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Franz Ferdinand
Soviet-Afghan War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Berlin Conference
15. 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.
Jacobins
Denis Diderot
Crimean War
Treaty of Paris
16. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Vichy Regime
Korean War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Red Russians
17. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Vesalius
Enclosure movement
Transcendentalists
18. 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.
Quadruple Alliance
soviets
Potsdam
French Revolution of 1848
19. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Absolutism
Emelyn Pugachev
Steel
Factory Act
20. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Marshall plan
Leipzig
Greek Revolution
Declaration of Pillnitz
21. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Heinrich Himmler
Thomas Malthus
Oliver Cromwell
22. Discovered radium.
Eastern Question
Third International
Marie Curie
Zimmerman telegram
23. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Johannes Kepler
Holy Alliance
Berlin Conference
24. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Denis Diderot
Oliver Cromwell
Vesalius
25. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Russian Revolution
Red Russians
Panther
26. Extermination of the Jews.
Francois Voltaire
Vladimir Lenin
Final Solution
Sergei Witte
27. A Jewish British prime minister.
Sergei Witte
Panther
X-Ray
Benjamin Disraeli
28. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Secularization
Isaac Newton
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
29. 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.
Triple Alliance
Andrew Carnegie
Theodore Herzl
Battle of Adowa
30. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
New Economic Policy
White Russians
Brezhnev Doctrine
31. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
French Revolution of 1848
Home Rule
Paris Commune
soviets
32. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Lenin and Trotsky
Giuseppe Mazzini
Committee of Public Safety
Dual Monarchy
33. 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
John F. Kennedy
Potsdam
Francois Voltaire
Giuseppe Mazzini
34. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
James Watt
Paracelsus
British East India Company
Thomas Malthus
35. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
X-Ray
Charles X
Nazi
36. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Peter the Great
Eastern Question
Theodore Herzl
Herbert Spencer
37. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Black Shirt March
Count Cavour
Lenin and Trotsky
Nazi
38. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Thomas Malthus
John Locke
ultraroyalists
Treaty of Paris
39. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Berlin Conference
Home Rule
40. 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
John F. Kennedy
Copernicus
John Stuart Mill
Russo-Japanese War
41. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
The Glorious Revolution
ancien regime
Transcendentalists
Seven Weeks' War
42. 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.
Allied Powers
Lateran Pact
Directory
Cecil Rhodes.
43. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Isaac Newton
Edmund Burke
Thermidor
44. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Edinburgh
vanguard
Panther
45. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Greek Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Battle of the Bulge
46. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Panther
Rene Descartes
Edmund Burke
Count Cavour
47. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Joseph II
Public Health Act
Thermidor
Congress of Vienna
48. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Easter Rising
Edward Gibbon
Secularization
British East India Company
49. 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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50. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Home Rule
Continental System
Potsdam
Brest-Litovsk Treaty