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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Free French
Committee of Public Safety
Russian Revolution
Triple Alliance
2. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Charles Montesquieu
Allies
James Watt
William and Catherine Booth
3. Extermination of the Jews.
Andrew Carnegie
Final Solution
Secularization
Battle of the Bulge
4. 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
vanguard
Dutch Republic
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Paracelsus
5. 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.
Allies
Black Shirt March
Free French
ancien regime
6. 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
fire at the Reichstag
Dual Monarchy
Allied Powers
7. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Easter Rising
Absolutism
Adam Smith
Red Russians
8. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
soviets
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
British East India Company
Panther
9. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Theodore Herzl
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
10. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Edict of Nantes
French Revolution of 1848
Charles Montesquieu
Lusitania
11. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Franco-Prussian War
Spanish Civil War
conscription
12. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Count Cavour
'Turnip' Townsend
Reform Bill
13. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Social Democratic Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Dutch Republic
14. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Holy Alliance
Triple Entente
Declaration of Pillnitz
15. 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
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edinburgh
John Locke
Napoleon
16. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Zimmerman telegram
Social Democratic Party
Edinburgh
Spanish-American War
17. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Blaise Pascal
James Watt
soviets
ancien regime
18. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Factory Act
Johannes Kepler
Charles X
Austria-Hungary
19. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Steel
Fascist Party
Austria-Hungary
vanguard
20. 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
Adam Smith
John F. Kennedy
Reform Bill
The Glorious Revolution
21. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Triple Alliance
Russo-Japanese War
Count Cavour
22. 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.
Secularization
vanguard
Bradenburg-Prussia
James Watt
23. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Enclosure movement
Battle of the Somme
Secularization
Bishop Bossuet
24. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Galileo Galilei
John Rockefeller
French Revolution of 1848
Count Cavour
25. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Adam Smith
Steel
Benito Mussolini
Charles Montesquieu
26. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Oliver Cromwell
Mary Wollstonecraft
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
27. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
French Revolution of 1848
Secularization
Seven Year's War
Adolf Eichmann
28. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Thomas Malthus
New Economic Policy
Franz Ferdinand
X-Ray
29. 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.
Napoleon
North German Confederation
Edict of Nantes
Francois Voltaire
30. Founded the Salvation Army
Robert Koch
Steel
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian Empire
31. 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.
Whigs
Battle of the Bulge
Lateran Pact
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
32. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Emelyn Pugachev
Kronstadt
Seven Weeks' War
33. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Triple Alliance
Directory
vanguard
Declaration of Pillnitz
34. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Edict of Nantes
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Galileo Galilei
Treaty of London
35. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Utilitarianism
Isaac Newton
ancien regime
Directory
36. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Herbert Spencer
Kronstadt
Emmeline Prankhurst
Revisionists
37. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Franco-Prussian War
Fascist Party
Kaiser Wilhelm I
38. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Edmund Burke
Joseph Stalin
soviets
Girondins
39. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Jacobins
Treaty of Tilsit
Enclosure movement
Marshall plan
40. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Soviet-Afghan War
Quadruple Alliance
Nazi
Thirty Years' War
41. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Theodore Herzl
Chartist Movement
Friedrich Nietzsche
Benito Mussolini
42. 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.
Directory
Home Rule
Girondins
Peter the Great
43. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Copernicus
Count Cavour
Triple Alliance
44. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Public Health Act
Zimmerman telegram
Holy Alliance
Volksgeist
45. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
William Gladstone
English Civil War
Heinrich Himmler
Concert of Europe
46. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Easter Rising
Kulaks
Free French
French Revolution of 1848
47. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Adolf Eichmann
Galileo Galilei
Congress of Vienna
Seven Year's War
48. 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.
British East India Company
fire at the Reichstag
Dutch Republic
Edward Gibbon
49. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Kronstadt
Potsdam
Austro-Hungarian Empire
50. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Dual Monarchy
Treaty of London
Copernicus
Jean-Jacques Rousseau