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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Continental System
Jean Paul Marat
Dulce et Decorum Est
2. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Johannes Kepler
Labour Party
Joseph II
Andrew Carnegie
3. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Battle of the Somme
Isaac Newton
Ferdinand VII
4. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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5. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Sergei Witte
Emmeline Prankhurst
Napoleon
Crimean War
6. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Theodore Herzl
Brezhnev Doctrine
Whigs
7. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Concert of Europe
Francois Voltaire
War of Austrian Succession
Johannes Kepler
8. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Black Shirt March
The Glorious Revolution
Ptolemy
Triple Entente
9. 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
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Charles X
Paracelsus
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
10. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sir Francis Bacon
ultraroyalists
11. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
'Turnip' Townsend
British East India Company
Free French
fire at the Reichstag
12. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
John Locke
Steel
Heinrich Himmler
Sir Francis Bacon
13. 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
Panther
Dutch Republic
Denis Diderot
Allied Powers
14. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Copernicus
Triple Alliance
Theodore Herzl
The War of Jenkin's Ear
15. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
ultraroyalists
Factory Act
Marshall plan
Benito Mussolini
16. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Declaration of Pillnitz
Treaty of Tilsit
Gottfried Leibniz
17. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edinburgh
Franz Ferdinand
18. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Spanish Civil War
Utilitarianism
Fabian Society
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
19. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Factory Act
Seven Weeks' War
Marie Curie
Enigma
20. 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
Austria-Hungary
Holy Alliance
Zimmerman telegram
21. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Napoleon
Secularization
Dulce et Decorum Est
Friedrich Nietzsche
22. 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.
Whigs
Ottoman empire dissolved
Edward Gibbon
Fascist Party
23. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Enigma
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of Paris
24. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Free French
Johannes Kepler
conscription
Dual Monarchy
25. 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
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26. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Sergei Witte
Charles Albert
Revolution from Above
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
27. 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.
English Civil War
Louis XIV
Chartist Movement
Assembly of Notables
28. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Joseph Stalin
First and Second International
Enclosure movement
Emmanuel Sieyes
29. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Concert of Europe
Treaty of London
Third International
Paris Commune
30. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Thomas Malthus
Easter Rising
Axis Powers
Red Russians
31. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
James Watt
Edinburgh
Thermidor
Warsaw Pact
32. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Louis XIV
Daimler and Benz
Paracelsus
Rene Descartes
33. 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.
Revolution from Above
Spanish Civil War
Lateran Pact
Rene Descartes
34. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Steel
William Gladstone
fire at the Reichstag
35. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Dual Monarchy
Franco-Prussian War
Stalingrad
36. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Axis Powers
Treaty of Paris
Holy Alliance
37. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
White Russians
Seven Year's War
Georges Jacques Danton
X-Ray
38. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Home Rule
Francois Voltaire
Charles Montesquieu
39. 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
Russian Revolution
soviets
Austria-Hungary
40. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Thermidor
41. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Cecil Rhodes.
Charles Montesquieu
Directory
English Civil War
42. 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.
Charles X
Jean Paul Marat
Russo-Japanese War
Adam Smith
43. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Spanish-American War
Transcendentalists
Soviet-Afghan War
44. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Paracelsus
Petition of Rights
Daimler and Benz
45. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Johannes Kepler
Lateran Pact
Triple Entente
Gottfried Leibniz
46. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Secularization
Edict of Nantes
Emelyn Pugachev
Red Russians
47. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
William Gladstone
Concert of Europe
Public Health Act
Thermidor
48. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Revolution from Above
Greek Revolution
British East India Company
Emelyn Pugachev
49. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Panther
Seven Year's War
Emelyn Pugachev
William Gladstone
50. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
X-Ray
Mary Wollstonecraft
ultraroyalists