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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Fascist Party
Eastern Question
Chartist Movement
Edward Gibbon
2. 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.
Red Russians
Transcendentalists
Factory Act
Franco-Prussian War
3. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Zimmerman telegram
Paris Commune
Third International
4. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Warsaw Pact
Tories
Whigs
Thermidor
5. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Boer War
Jacobins
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Battle of the Somme
6. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
Ferdinand VII
Adolf Eichmann
Soviet-Afghan War
7. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Allies
Nikita Khrushchev
Factory Act
Secularization
8. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Denis Diderot
Adolf Eichmann
Dulce et Decorum Est
9. 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.
Panther
Frederick the Great
Austria-Hungary
First and Second International
10. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Ptolemy
Vesalius
Lenin and Trotsky
Chartist Movement
11. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Edmund Burke
Dual Monarchy
Bradenburg-Prussia
12. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Assembly of Notables
Sergei Witte
Eastern Question
James Watt
13. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Kronstadt
Leipzig
Factory Act
Dulce et Decorum Est
14. 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.
Ptolemy
Labour Party
Adam Smith
Battle of the Somme
15. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Leipzig
Berlin Conference
Easter Rising
Bradenburg-Prussia
16. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Legislative Assembly
John Locke
Charles Montesquieu
Warsaw Pact
17. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Home Rule
Zimmerman telegram
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Edward Gibbon
18. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Committee of Public Safety
Emmanuel Sieyes
Spanish Civil War
Greek Revolution
19. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Enclosure movement
Brezhnev Doctrine
Battle of the Somme
Vladimir Lenin
20. 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.
Seven Year's War
fire at the Reichstag
Herbert Spencer
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
21. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Spanish Civil War
Denis Diderot
Legislative Assembly
Continental System
22. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Reform Bill
fire at the Reichstag
Enigma
Treaty of Paris
23. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Red Russians
John Stuart Mill
Charles Montesquieu
Dulce et Decorum Est
24. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
Galileo Galilei
Holy Alliance
fire at the Reichstag
25. 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
Francois Voltaire
Heinrich Himmler
The Glorious Revolution
Lateran Pact
26. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Seven Year's War
Kulaks
Lusitania
Dulce et Decorum Est
27. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Joseph Stalin
Heinrich Himmler
John F. Kennedy
28. 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
French Revolution of 1848
Home Rule
Copernicus
Louis XIV
29. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Utilitarianism
Black Shirt March
Korean War
30. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Girondins
Peter the Great
Treaty of Tilsit
Isaac Newton
31. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Utilitarianism
John F. Kennedy
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
32. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Declaration of Pillnitz
Central Powers.
ancien regime
Jacobins
33. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Vichy Regime
Absolutism
Emmanuel Sieyes
34. 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
Zimmerman telegram
X-Ray
British East India Company
Joseph Stalin
35. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Edmund Burke
Absolutism
French Revolution of 1848
Ottoman empire dissolved
36. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Berlin Conference
Korean War
Andrew Carnegie
Theodore Herzl
37. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Austria-Hungary
Thermidor
Adolf Eichmann
38. 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.
Girondins
Jacobins
James Watt
English Civil War
39. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
British East India Company
Nikita Khrushchev
Lateran Pact
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
40. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Central Powers.
Ottoman empire dissolved
William and Catherine Booth
41. 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
Vichy Regime
Dulce et Decorum Est
Spanish-American War
42. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Reform Bill
Social Democratic Party
Rene Descartes
43. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
John Locke
Public Health Act
James Watt
Spanish-American War
44. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Blaise Pascal
Bishop Bossuet
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Concert of Europe
45. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Edmund Burke
War of Austrian Succession
Stalingrad
46. 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.
Joseph II
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
British East India Company
'Turnip' Townsend
47. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
White Russians
Jean Paul Marat
Vladimir Lenin
Warsaw Pact
48. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Isaac Newton
Concert of Europe
Triple Entente
Fascist Party
49. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Quadruple Alliance
Allies
Social Democratic Party
Austro-Hungarian Empire
50. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Russo-Japanese War
Greek Revolution
Lusitania
Russian Revolution