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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Enclosure movement
Heinrich Himmler
Triple Alliance
Reform Bill
2. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Boer War
Greek Revolution
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Declaration of Pillnitz
3. 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
First and Second International
Declaration of Pillnitz
Potsdam
Dutch Republic
4. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Committee of Public Safety
Benito Mussolini
Concert of Europe
5. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Red Russians
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Paris Commune
James Watt
6. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Charles Montesquieu
Axis Powers
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cecil Rhodes.
7. A Jewish British prime minister.
Georges Jacques Danton
Battle of the Somme
Benjamin Disraeli
Third International
8. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Lenin and Trotsky
Home Rule
Treaty of Tilsit
Dulce et Decorum Est
9. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Kulaks
Korean War
Fascist Party
Secularization
10. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Napoleon
Steel
Easter Rising
11. Discovered radium.
Kulaks
Treaty of Tilsit
Greek Revolution
Marie Curie
12. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Greek Revolution
Sergei Witte
Enigma
13. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Vladimir Lenin
Secularization
Third International
Allied Powers
14. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Potsdam
Franz Ferdinand
vanguard
15. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Quadruple Alliance
Absolutism
Marshall plan
Seven Weeks' War
16. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Spanish-American War
Thermidor
Louis Philippe I
Edmund Burke
17. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Directory
Benito Mussolini
Brezhnev Doctrine
18. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Zimmerman telegram
Russian Revolution
Thomas Malthus
ultraroyalists
19. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
John Stuart Mill
Easter Rising
Soviet-Afghan War
20. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lusitania
Benito Mussolini
Louis Philippe I
21. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Austria-Hungary
Legislative Assembly
Count Cavour
22. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
John Locke
Lenin and Trotsky
Louis XIV
23. 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.
Continental System
Heinrich Himmler
Holy Alliance
Zimmerman telegram
24. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
ultraroyalists
James Watt
Continental System
Labour Party
25. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Paracelsus
Charles Albert
Directory
Kulaks
26. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Axis Powers
Daimler and Benz
Labour Party
Reform Bill
27. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
North German Confederation
Red Russians
French Revolution of 1848
Georges Jacques Danton
28. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Thermidorian Reaction
Battle of the Somme
Russian Revolution
Treaty of Frankfurt
29. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Charles Montesquieu
Daimler and Benz
John Stuart Mill
Public Health Act
30. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Peter the Great
Spanish-American War
Eastern Question
31. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Benito Mussolini
Lateran Pact
Spanish-American War
Third International
32. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Sir Francis Bacon
Bradenburg-Prussia
Chartist Movement
33. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Catherine the Great
Red Russians
Whigs
Peter the Great
34. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
James Watt
Girondins
ancien regime
35. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Fabian Society
Home Rule
North German Confederation
Francois Voltaire
36. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Georges Jacques Danton
Daimler and Benz
Transcendentalists
37. 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
Russo-Japanese War
soviets
Vesalius
38. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Secularization
Adam Smith
Concert of Europe
Mary Wollstonecraft
39. A military draft
conscription
Adam Smith
Social Democratic Party
Johannes Kepler
40. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Charles X
Potsdam
Jean Paul Marat
Labour Party
41. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Andrew Carnegie
Ottoman empire dissolved
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Edinburgh
42. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Absolutism
Thomas Malthus
Axis Powers
Quadruple Alliance
43. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Russian Revolution
Girondins
Austria-Hungary
Petition of Rights
44. 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.
John Locke
Paris Commune
Black Shirt March
'Turnip' Townsend
45. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Rene Descartes
Stalingrad
First and Second International
Robert Koch
46. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Reform Bill
Petition of Rights
Paris Commune
ultraroyalists
47. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
X-Ray
Paracelsus
conscription
Marie Curie
48. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Marshall plan
Giuseppe Mazzini
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of London
49. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Copernicus
Louis Philippe I
Gottfried Leibniz
Whigs
50. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Thomas Malthus
Thirty Years' War
Fascist Party