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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Fabian Society
Edict of Nantes
Louis Philippe I
Joseph II
2. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Panther
Leipzig
Paracelsus
Factory Act
3. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Ferdinand VII
Edward Gibbon
fire at the Reichstag
William Gladstone
4. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
North German Confederation
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Jacobins
Battle of Adowa
5. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Secularization
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chartist Movement
6. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Final Solution
Friedrich Nietzsche
First and Second International
John F. Kennedy
7. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Treaty of Tilsit
Lenin and Trotsky
Reform Bill
'Turnip' Townsend
8. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Revisionists
Central Powers.
Enclosure movement
Vichy Regime
9. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Daimler and Benz
Paris Commune
Galileo Galilei
10. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Battle of the Somme
Utilitarianism
Thermidorian Reaction
New Economic Policy
11. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Ferdinand VII
conscription
Emelyn Pugachev
Lenin and Trotsky
12. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Committee of Public Safety
Tories
English Civil War
13. 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
ancien regime
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Copernicus
Revisionists
14. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Vichy Regime
Jean Paul Marat
Absolutism
15. 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.
John Locke
Frederick the Great
English Civil War
Transcendentalists
16. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Benito Mussolini
Marshall plan
Greek Revolution
Committee of Public Safety
17. 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.
Crimean War
John F. Kennedy
Napoleon
Declaration of Pillnitz
18. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Sir Francis Bacon
Thirty Years' War
Warsaw Pact
Giueseppe Garibaldi
19. 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
Congress of Vienna
Marshall plan
Francois Voltaire
Gottfried Leibniz
20. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Napoleon
Chartist Movement
Frederick the Great
Andrew Carnegie
21. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Thermidor
Edward Gibbon
Francois Voltaire
Lenin and Trotsky
22. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Charles Montesquieu
Joseph II
Fabian Society
Sir Francis Bacon
23. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Crimean War
Galileo Galilei
Nazi
24. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Sergei Witte
Austro-Piedmontese War
Girondins
25. Extermination of the Jews.
First and Second International
Final Solution
Edinburgh
Spanish Civil War
26. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Benjamin Disraeli
Concert of Europe
Social Democratic Party
27. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
French Revolution of 1848
Factory Act
Congress of Vienna
28. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Frederick the Great
John Locke
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Greek Revolution
29. 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.
soviets
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Vichy Regime
Charles X
30. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Nazi
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Edinburgh
Easter Rising
31. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Charles Albert
Dual Monarchy
Enigma
Charles X
32. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Benjamin Disraeli
Girondins
John F. Kennedy
Charles Montesquieu
33. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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34. 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.
Edmund Burke
Oliver Cromwell
Joseph II
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
35. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Copernicus
Triple Alliance
vanguard
Blaise Pascal
36. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
British East India Company
Austria-Hungary
'Turnip' Townsend
Andrew Carnegie
37. 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
Thermidor
Dutch Republic
Potsdam
North German Confederation
38. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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39. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Jean Paul Marat
Spanish Civil War
Boer War
Heinrich Himmler
40. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Social Democratic Party
Tories
41. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Galileo Galilei
Nazi
Enclosure movement
Panther
42. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Crimean War
Blaise Pascal
The Glorious Revolution
Austro-Hungarian Empire
43. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Potsdam
Chartist Movement
English Civil War
Nikita Khrushchev
44. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Benjamin Disraeli
Battle of the Bulge
Kronstadt
Kulaks
45. 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
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Spanish Civil War
Stalingrad
Theodore Herzl
46. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
ancien regime
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Count Cavour
Fabian Society
47. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Atlantic Charter
North German Confederation
John Rockefeller
48. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
'Turnip' Townsend
Jean Paul Marat
Eastern Question
49. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Kulaks
Crimean War
Bishop Bossuet
50. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Petition of Rights
Ottoman empire dissolved
Ptolemy
Joseph Stalin