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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Free French
Rene Descartes
Chartist Movement
Factory Act
2. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Red Russians
Stalingrad
Revisionists
3. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Tories
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
Lenin and Trotsky
4. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Louis XIV
Catherine the Great
Paracelsus
X-Ray
5. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
North German Confederation
Jean Paul Marat
Steel
Tories
6. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Louis Philippe I
Leipzig
Dual Monarchy
Assembly of Notables
7. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Treaty of Tilsit
Vesalius
Lenin and Trotsky
Giuseppe Mazzini
8. 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.
Louis XIV
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Battle of the Somme
Korean War
9. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Edinburgh
Directory
Secularization
Gottfried Leibniz
10. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Edmund Burke
Allies
Edict of Nantes
War of Austrian Succession
11. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Seven Year's War
Rene Descartes
ultraroyalists
X-Ray
12. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of London
Johannes Kepler
13. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
soviets
Stalingrad
Austria-Hungary
ultraroyalists
14. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Thermidor
Austria-Hungary
Boer War
X-Ray
15. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Allied Powers
White Russians
Battle of Adowa
Legislative Assembly
16. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Count Cavour
Revisionists
Russian Revolution
17. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Edinburgh
Chartist Movement
Russo-Japanese War
18. 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.
Dual Monarchy
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Louis Philippe I
Adam Smith
19. 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.
Public Health Act
Enclosure movement
Third International
Petition of Rights
20. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Lateran Pact
Factory Act
Jacobins
Bradenburg-Prussia
21. Founded the Salvation Army
Marie Curie
Bradenburg-Prussia
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
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.
Final Solution
Paracelsus
Factory Act
Frederick the Great
23. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Johannes Kepler
Battle of the Somme
Emelyn Pugachev
24. 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
Chartist Movement
soviets
Charles Albert
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
25. 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.
English Civil War
Transcendentalists
James Watt
Ottoman empire dissolved
26. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Spanish-American War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
ultraroyalists
27. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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28. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Edict of Nantes
Enigma
conscription
29. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Bradenburg-Prussia
Free French
Revolution from Above
30. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Vladimir Lenin
Paris Commune
First and Second International
Treaty of Paris
31. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Thermidor
Johannes Kepler
Joseph Stalin
32. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Assembly of Notables
Korean War
Copernicus
Enclosure movement
33. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Daimler and Benz
Russo-Japanese War
Tories
Congress of Vienna
34. A military draft
Joseph II
conscription
Axis Powers
Cecil Rhodes.
35. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Russo-Japanese War
Paris Commune
Concert of Europe
Thirty Years' War
36. 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
Lateran Pact
John Locke
Louis XIV
Legislative Assembly
37. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Home Rule
Brezhnev Doctrine
Mary Wollstonecraft
38. 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.
The Glorious Revolution
Battle of Adowa
Spanish Civil War
Blaise Pascal
39. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Triple Entente
Potsdam
Quadruple Alliance
40. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Continental System
41. 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
Fabian Society
Zimmerman telegram
Gottfried Leibniz
First and Second International
42. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
fire at the Reichstag
John F. Kennedy
Panther
Zimmerman telegram
43. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Third International
Treaty of London
Edinburgh
'Turnip' Townsend
44. 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
Lenin and Trotsky
Emmanuel Sieyes
Spanish Civil War
White Russians
45. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
conscription
Dutch Republic
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treaty of London
46. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Russian Revolution
Factory Act
Black Shirt March
47. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Emmanuel Sieyes
Edmund Burke
William and Catherine Booth
Isaac Newton
48. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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49. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
New Economic Policy
Friedrich Nietzsche
James Watt
Denis Diderot
50. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Free French
Napoleon
Charles Montesquieu
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