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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Discovered radium.
Benito Mussolini
Marie Curie
Steel
Rene Descartes
2. 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
Kronstadt
X-Ray
Zimmerman telegram
Continental System
3. 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
Austria-Hungary
Potsdam
Edinburgh
Stalingrad
4. Founded the Salvation Army
Paracelsus
William and Catherine Booth
Quadruple Alliance
White Russians
5. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Final Solution
New Economic Policy
Home Rule
Herbert Spencer
6. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Tories
Korean War
Third International
7. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
conscription
Transcendentalists
Fabian Society
8. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Kulaks
Joseph Stalin
conscription
9. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Adolf Eichmann
Mary Wollstonecraft
Bishop Bossuet
10. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Austria-Hungary
Social Democratic Party
soviets
11. 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.
First and Second International
Russian Revolution
Quadruple Alliance
Easter Rising
12. 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
Russo-Japanese War
Crimean War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
13. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Chartist Movement
Kronstadt
Triple Entente
Continental System
14. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Continental System
Holy Alliance
Soviet-Afghan War
Franz Ferdinand
15. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Adolf Eichmann
Benjamin Disraeli
Triple Entente
Charles Montesquieu
16. 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.
Adam Smith
Heinrich Himmler
Third International
Charles X
17. 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.
Ptolemy
Franco-Prussian War
Fascist Party
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
18. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Committee of Public Safety
Peter the Great
Factory Act
Treaty of Tilsit
19. 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.
English Civil War
soviets
Transcendentalists
Boer War
20. 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.'
Directory
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chartist Movement
Herbert Spencer
21. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Kulaks
English Civil War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
22. 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.
Girondins
Daimler and Benz
Revolution from Above
Sir Francis Bacon
23. 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.
Robert Koch
Russian Revolution
Tories
Denis Diderot
24. 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
Edward Gibbon
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Russian Revolution
Isaac Newton
25. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jean Paul Marat
John Rockefeller
26. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Utilitarianism
Free French
Potsdam
Paracelsus
27. 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
English Civil War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Axis Powers
Social Democratic Party
28. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Soviet-Afghan War
Enclosure movement
Kulaks
Paracelsus
29. 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.
conscription
New Economic Policy
Continental System
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
30. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Gottfried Leibniz
Assembly of Notables
Korean War
Free French
31. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
The Glorious Revolution
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Robert Koch
Easter Rising
32. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Denis Diderot
Potsdam
Enclosure movement
Friedrich Nietzsche
33. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Treaty of London
Robert Koch
Public Health Act
34. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Galileo Galilei
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Lusitania
Free French
35. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Red Russians
Copernicus
Peter the Great
Frederick the Great
36. 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.
Transcendentalists
Herbert Spencer
North German Confederation
Sir Francis Bacon
37. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Treaty of London
Fabian Society
The Glorious Revolution
38. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Dual Monarchy
Brezhnev Doctrine
Holy Alliance
39. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Treaty of Tilsit
X-Ray
Seven Year's War
40. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Blaise Pascal
Crimean War
Vichy Regime
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
41. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Spanish-American War
Concert of Europe
Adam Smith
Labour Party
42. 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
Girondins
Fabian Society
James Watt
Dutch Republic
43. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
ancien regime
Greek Revolution
Sir Francis Bacon
Marie Curie
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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Peter the Great
Oliver Cromwell
Charles X
45. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Enclosure movement
Edinburgh
Thomas Malthus
Absolutism
46. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Petition of Rights
Joseph Stalin
Atlantic Charter
47. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Seven Year's War
Ptolemy
Lusitania
Absolutism
48. 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
Holy Alliance
Easter Rising
Spanish Civil War
Free French
49. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Potsdam
ultraroyalists
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Declaration of Pillnitz
50. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Battle of the Somme
Heinrich Himmler
Gottfried Leibniz
vanguard
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