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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
William Gladstone
James Watt
Marshall plan
Boer War
2. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Easter Rising
Edmund Burke
Steel
soviets
3. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Absolutism
Girondins
Easter Rising
4. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Spanish Civil War
James Watt
Petition of Rights
X-Ray
5. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Giuseppe Mazzini
Triple Entente
Nazi
6. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Austria-Hungary
Nikita Khrushchev
Kronstadt
Korean War
7. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Nikita Khrushchev
Emmanuel Sieyes
Triple Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
8. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Spanish Civil War
Charles Montesquieu
Dulce et Decorum Est
Andrew Carnegie
9. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Cecil Rhodes.
Third International
Battle of the Bulge
Ottoman empire dissolved
10. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Secularization
Heinrich Himmler
Absolutism
11. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Easter Rising
Factory Act
Treaty of Frankfurt
conscription
12. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Heinrich Himmler
Transcendentalists
Final Solution
13. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Benjamin Disraeli
Lusitania
Count Cavour
Emelyn Pugachev
14. 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
vanguard
Thermidor
Dulce et Decorum Est
15. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Treaty of London
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emmeline Prankhurst
Lenin and Trotsky
16. Soviet counterpart to NATO
New Economic Policy
Warsaw Pact
Georges Jacques Danton
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
17. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
The Glorious Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft
Eastern Question
Treaty of Tilsit
18. 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.'
War of Austrian Succession
Leipzig
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Mary Wollstonecraft
19. 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
Seven Weeks' War
Emelyn Pugachev
English Civil War
Third International
20. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
vanguard
Charles X
Fabian Society
Peter the Great
21. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Louis Philippe I
Chartist Movement
Paris Commune
Thermidor
22. 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
Benjamin Disraeli
Joseph Stalin
Labour Party
Petition of Rights
23. 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.
New Economic Policy
Fabian Society
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Galileo Galilei
24. 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
Berlin Conference
Potsdam
The Glorious Revolution
Seven Weeks' War
25. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Thermidorian Reaction
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daimler and Benz
Home Rule
26. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Franz Ferdinand
Absolutism
Boer War
27. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Georges Jacques Danton
War of Austrian Succession
Korean War
Denis Diderot
28. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Francois Voltaire
Home Rule
Kronstadt
Spanish Civil War
29. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Allied Powers
Home Rule
Adolf Eichmann
30. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
fire at the Reichstag
Louis Philippe I
Secularization
31. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Korean War
Isaac Newton
North German Confederation
Benito Mussolini
32. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Quadruple Alliance
British East India Company
Treaty of Frankfurt
33. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Daimler and Benz
Legislative Assembly
X-Ray
Social Democratic Party
34. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Count Cavour
Treaty of Frankfurt
Final Solution
Rene Descartes
35. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Franz Ferdinand
Francois Voltaire
John Rockefeller
36. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Allied Powers
Spanish Civil War
Louis XIV
37. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Benito Mussolini
Charles Montesquieu
Brezhnev Doctrine
fire at the Reichstag
38. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
British East India Company
Charles Albert
Ptolemy
Vesalius
39. 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
Dutch Republic
Concert of Europe
Declaration of Pillnitz
Enigma
40. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Daimler and Benz
Edmund Burke
Holy Alliance
41. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Louis XIV
Bradenburg-Prussia
James Watt
William and Catherine Booth
42. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
New Economic Policy
fire at the Reichstag
Blaise Pascal
Soviet-Afghan War
43. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Whigs
Austro-Piedmontese War
Georges Jacques Danton
Sergei Witte
44. 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.
Count Cavour
Oliver Cromwell
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Copernicus
45. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Kronstadt
Absolutism
Atlantic Charter
Dulce et Decorum Est
46. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Gottfried Leibniz
Leipzig
Dulce et Decorum Est
Russo-Japanese War
47. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Committee of Public Safety
Austria-Hungary
Zimmerman telegram
48. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Labour Party
Edinburgh
Chartist Movement
Edict of Nantes
49. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Panther
Enigma
Vladimir Lenin
Herbert Spencer
50. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Austria-Hungary
Kronstadt
North German Confederation
Adolf Eichmann