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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Triple Alliance
Louis XIV
Central Powers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
John Locke
Treaty of Paris
Joseph Stalin
Lateran Pact
3. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
fire at the Reichstag
X-Ray
Edinburgh
Oliver Cromwell
4. 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
Emelyn Pugachev
Charles X
Legislative Assembly
5. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Sir Francis Bacon
Stalingrad
Treaty of London
Nazi
6. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Catherine the Great
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Triple Alliance
Emmanuel Sieyes
7. 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.
Galileo Galilei
X-Ray
Edward Gibbon
Oliver Cromwell
8. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Triple Entente
Vesalius
Fabian Society
Enclosure movement
9. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Congress of Vienna
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Labour Party
Louis XIV
10. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Reform Bill
Directory
Crimean War
11. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Quadruple Alliance
Holy Alliance
Joseph Stalin
Heinrich Himmler
12. 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.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Assembly of Notables
William and Catherine Booth
Benjamin Disraeli
13. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Revisionists
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean Paul Marat
New Economic Policy
14. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Mary Wollstonecraft
Korean War
Russian Revolution
15. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
John Stuart Mill
Declaration of Pillnitz
Atlantic Charter
Austria-Hungary
16. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
ultraroyalists
soviets
Revisionists
Petition of Rights
17. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
18. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Labour Party
Steel
Korean War
19. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Peter the Great
John F. Kennedy
Seven Weeks' War
Lenin and Trotsky
20. 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
Axis Powers
Secularization
Dutch Republic
Heinrich Himmler
21. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
White Russians
Thirty Years' War
Marie Curie
Jacobins
22. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
ancien regime
Treaty of London
Enigma
Giuseppe Mazzini
23. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Kronstadt
Axis Powers
Adam Smith
John F. Kennedy
24. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Free French
vanguard
Girondins
25. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Red Russians
British East India Company
Daimler and Benz
White Russians
26. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Concert of Europe
Emelyn Pugachev
Panther
27. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Transcendentalists
Vichy Regime
Home Rule
Peter the Great
28. 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
Concert of Europe
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Committee of Public Safety
Benito Mussolini
29. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
30. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Adam Smith
Thermidor
Robert Koch
31. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Adam Smith
Sergei Witte
Copernicus
Isaac Newton
32. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Thermidor
Johannes Kepler
Revisionists
33. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Nikita Khrushchev
Dulce et Decorum Est
Absolutism
Catherine the Great
34. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Galileo Galilei
Friedrich Nietzsche
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Ottoman empire dissolved
35. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Easter Rising
English Civil War
Vladimir Lenin
William Gladstone
36. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of London
North German Confederation
Kulaks
37. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Kronstadt
Brezhnev Doctrine
Chartist Movement
Napoleon
38. 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.
Transcendentalists
Revolution from Above
Fascist Party
Ptolemy
39. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Spanish Civil War
Marie Curie
Charles Montesquieu
40. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Final Solution
Assembly of Notables
Congress of Vienna
41. Britain and America
Ferdinand VII
Allied Powers
Congress of Vienna
Denis Diderot
42. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
War of Austrian Succession
Treaty of London
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Declaration of Pillnitz
43. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Steel
Revolution from Above
Korean War
Fascist Party
44. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Franz Ferdinand
Ptolemy
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Russo-Japanese War
45. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Battle of the Bulge
Legislative Assembly
Dual Monarchy
John F. Kennedy
46. Important ZIONIST.
Russo-Japanese War
Theodore Herzl
Franco-Prussian War
Oliver Cromwell
47. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Robert Koch
Lusitania
Paris Commune
William Gladstone
48. 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.
Triple Entente
Herbert Spencer
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Social Democratic Party
49. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Johannes Kepler
Spanish-American War
Paracelsus
Catherine the Great
50. 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
Assembly of Notables
Steel
Robert Koch