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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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2. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bradenburg-Prussia
Red Russians
Cecil Rhodes.
3. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Vesalius
Blaise Pascal
Marshall plan
Chartist Movement
4. 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.
Louis XIV
Giuseppe Mazzini
Third International
Boer War
5. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Directory
Copernicus
Boer War
Nazi
6. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Lenin and Trotsky
Utilitarianism
Francois Voltaire
Treaty of Paris
7. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Catherine the Great
Brezhnev Doctrine
John Locke
Boer War
8. 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
Herbert Spencer
Nikita Khrushchev
Stalingrad
9. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
Concert of Europe
White Russians
Copernicus
War of Austrian Succession
10. Soviet counterpart to NATO
John Rockefeller
Warsaw Pact
Theodore Herzl
Benjamin Disraeli
11. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Andrew Carnegie
Social Democratic Party
Blaise Pascal
Louis XIV
12. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Reform Bill
Zimmerman telegram
Treaty of Frankfurt
Kulaks
13. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Louis XIV
Robert Koch
Enclosure movement
North German Confederation
14. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Thomas Malthus
Chartist Movement
Korean War
15. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Marie Curie
Louis Philippe I
Home Rule
Central Powers.
16. 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.
Benito Mussolini
Theodore Herzl
Enclosure movement
Russian Revolution
17. (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
Daimler and Benz
War of Austrian Succession
John Locke
Heinrich Himmler
18. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Ptolemy
Public Health Act
Tories
Thomas Malthus
19. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Edmund Burke
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Edinburgh
Petition of Rights
20. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Absolutism
Treaty of Frankfurt
ancien regime
Legislative Assembly
21. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Ptolemy
Whigs
Congress of Vienna
22. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Black Shirt March
Giueseppe Garibaldi
23. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
War of Austrian Succession
Dutch Republic
Dual Monarchy
Marshall plan
24. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Charles Montesquieu
Paracelsus
Battle of Adowa
Louis XIV
25. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Battle of the Bulge
Eastern Question
Edward Gibbon
Nikita Khrushchev
26. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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27. Founded the Salvation Army
Rene Descartes
William and Catherine Booth
Cecil Rhodes.
Louis Philippe I
28. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Louis XIV
Frederick the Great
Charles Montesquieu
Axis Powers
29. 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.
Charles Albert
Social Democratic Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Treaty of Tilsit
30. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Ptolemy
Daimler and Benz
Dulce et Decorum Est
conscription
31. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Thomas Malthus
Emmanuel Sieyes
Lusitania
32. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
War of Austrian Succession
Louis Philippe I
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Triple Entente
33. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Joseph Stalin
Ferdinand VII
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
34. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Marshall plan
Quadruple Alliance
Cecil Rhodes.
Lusitania
35. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Absolutism
Adolf Eichmann
Atlantic Charter
Whigs
36. 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.
Nazi
Catherine the Great
Andrew Carnegie
Final Solution
37. 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.
Labour Party
Lusitania
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Russian Revolution
38. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
British East India Company
Emmeline Prankhurst
Free French
39. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Committee of Public Safety
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean Paul Marat
Marshall plan
40. 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.
Tories
Galileo Galilei
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
41. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Continental System
Charles X
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
42. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
William Gladstone
Marshall plan
James Watt
Tories
43. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Charles Montesquieu
ultraroyalists
Vichy Regime
44. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Easter Rising
Charles Albert
John Rockefeller
Chartist Movement
45. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Eastern Question
Giueseppe Garibaldi
James Watt
46. 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.
Lateran Pact
Adolf Eichmann
Nazi
John F. Kennedy
47. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Black Shirt March
Continental System
Copernicus
Francois Voltaire
48. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Edward Gibbon
Potsdam
John Stuart Mill
49. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
The Glorious Revolution
Absolutism
Berlin Conference
Peter the Great
50. 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
Labour Party
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Ferdinand VII