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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Herbert Spencer
Battle of the Somme
Nazi
2. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Frederick the Great
British East India Company
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
3. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Bradenburg-Prussia
Spanish Civil War
Joseph Stalin
4. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Dual Monarchy
Congress of Vienna
Girondins
5. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Holy Alliance
Spanish Civil War
Galileo Galilei
6. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Marshall plan
Leipzig
Austro-Piedmontese War
Absolutism
7. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Triple Alliance
Thermidorian Reaction
Charles Albert
Steel
8. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Thermidorian Reaction
Thermidor
Committee of Public Safety
9. 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
Lateran Pact
Charles Albert
Congress of Vienna
10. 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.
The Glorious Revolution
Cecil Rhodes.
Vesalius
Galileo Galilei
11. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Girondins
Emmeline Prankhurst
Denis Diderot
Korean War
12. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Panther
Reform Bill
Transcendentalists
13. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Ferdinand VII
'Turnip' Townsend
Bishop Bossuet
14. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Peter the Great
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stalingrad
15. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Treaty of Paris
Zimmerman telegram
Factory Act
16. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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17. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
fire at the Reichstag
Count Cavour
New Economic Policy
18. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Petition of Rights
Steel
Korean War
19. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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20. 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.
soviets
Vesalius
Treaty of Tilsit
Dulce et Decorum Est
21. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Third International
Sir Francis Bacon
Nikita Khrushchev
22. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
White Russians
Charles Montesquieu
Edict of Nantes
Home Rule
23. 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
John F. Kennedy
Charles Montesquieu
Austro-Hungarian Empire
24. 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.
Sergei Witte
Russian Revolution
Benito Mussolini
Legislative Assembly
25. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Benito Mussolini
Fabian Society
Dutch Republic
Eastern Question
26. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
The Glorious Revolution
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Isaac Newton
Greek Revolution
27. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Allies
vanguard
Ottoman empire dissolved
John F. Kennedy
28. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Warsaw Pact
Legislative Assembly
Easter Rising
29. 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)
Benito Mussolini
Edict of Nantes
Blaise Pascal
Absolutism
30. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Bishop Bossuet
Battle of the Bulge
Seven Year's War
Home Rule
31. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Reform Bill
Catherine the Great
X-Ray
Labour Party
32. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
English Civil War
Sergei Witte
Volksgeist
Lenin and Trotsky
33. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Dulce et Decorum Est
Declaration of Pillnitz
Stalingrad
34. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Seven Year's War
Fabian Society
Revisionists
White Russians
35. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Transcendentalists
Edward Gibbon
Edict of Nantes
36. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Lateran Pact
Mary Wollstonecraft
Eastern Question
37. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Austro-Piedmontese War
Triple Entente
Charles X
38. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Battle of Adowa
soviets
Austria-Hungary
Spanish-American War
39. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Assembly of Notables
Johannes Kepler
Francois Voltaire
Revolution from Above
40. 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.
Home Rule
Robert Koch
Adam Smith
John Stuart Mill
41. 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
Transcendentalists
Thermidorian Reaction
North German Confederation
ancien regime
42. 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
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Legislative Assembly
Russo-Japanese War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
43. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Emmeline Prankhurst
Franz Ferdinand
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
44. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Continental System
Committee of Public Safety
Emmanuel Sieyes
Black Shirt March
45. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
ancien regime
Spanish-American War
Joseph II
Paris Commune
46. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Robert Koch
Napoleon
Vesalius
Denis Diderot
47. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Kronstadt
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
William Gladstone
Paracelsus
48. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Johannes Kepler
Potsdam
Peter the Great
49. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Spanish Civil War
Chartist Movement
Ferdinand VII
50. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Paris Commune
Austria-Hungary
Joseph Stalin
Mary Wollstonecraft