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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Crimean War
Holy Alliance
Black Shirt March
White Russians
2. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Blaise Pascal
Nikita Khrushchev
Sergei Witte
3. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Vichy Regime
Enclosure movement
Congress of Vienna
Edmund Burke
4. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Berlin Conference
Revisionists
Factory Act
Easter Rising
5. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Free French
North German Confederation
Home Rule
6. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Russo-Japanese War
Assembly of Notables
Thomas Malthus
Brezhnev Doctrine
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.
Reform Bill
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Steel
Count Cavour
8. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Oliver Cromwell
Lenin and Trotsky
'Turnip' Townsend
Robert Koch
9. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Gottfried Leibniz
Factory Act
Fascist Party
Georges Jacques Danton
10. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Steel
Final Solution
Holy Alliance
11. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Charles Montesquieu
Galileo Galilei
Emmeline Prankhurst
Sir Francis Bacon
12. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Allies
Austro-Piedmontese War
Seven Year's War
Declaration of Pillnitz
13. 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.
Greek Revolution
First and Second International
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Lateran Pact
14. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
William and Catherine Booth
Russian Revolution
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Edict of Nantes
15. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Thermidor
Factory Act
Edict of Nantes
16. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Edmund Burke
Leipzig
Thermidorian Reaction
17. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Ferdinand VII
Herbert Spencer
Daimler and Benz
Volksgeist
18. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Blaise Pascal
X-Ray
Panther
Franz Ferdinand
19. Discovered radium.
British East India Company
James Watt
Treaty of Frankfurt
Marie Curie
20. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Marie Curie
Legislative Assembly
William Gladstone
Dual Monarchy
21. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Dutch Republic
William Gladstone
Treaty of London
Adolf Eichmann
22. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Reform Bill
'Turnip' Townsend
Dual Monarchy
Labour Party
23. 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.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Peter the Great
Final Solution
Adolf Eichmann
24. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Crimean War
Marshall plan
Andrew Carnegie
Leipzig
25. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Napoleon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Continental System
26. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Edmund Burke
British East India Company
Robert Koch
Johannes Kepler
27. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Seven Year's War
William Gladstone
Bishop Bossuet
28. 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.
Frederick the Great
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Franco-Prussian War
Free French
29. 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.
Berlin Conference
soviets
Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
30. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
William Gladstone
Cecil Rhodes.
Jean Paul Marat
Russo-Japanese War
31. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Absolutism
Fabian Society
French Revolution of 1848
Quadruple Alliance
32. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Sir Francis Bacon
John Stuart Mill
Andrew Carnegie
Zimmerman telegram
33. 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.
Chartist Movement
Seven Weeks' War
Oliver Cromwell
Treaty of Tilsit
34. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Ferdinand VII
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vichy Regime
Giueseppe Garibaldi
35. 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
Kronstadt
Mary Wollstonecraft
Emelyn Pugachev
Copernicus
36. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Potsdam
Thomas Malthus
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Kulaks
37. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Vesalius
Thirty Years' War
Eastern Question
Galileo Galilei
38. 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
Atlantic Charter
Nazi
Jacobins
Isaac Newton
39. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Marshall plan
Ottoman empire dissolved
Bradenburg-Prussia
First and Second International
40. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Legislative Assembly
Chartist Movement
Andrew Carnegie
Dutch Republic
41. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Soviet-Afghan War
Red Russians
Marshall plan
42. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Vladimir Lenin
Nazi
Concert of Europe
Red Russians
43. 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
Emmeline Prankhurst
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
First and Second International
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
44. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Heinrich Himmler
Greek Revolution
conscription
45. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
vanguard
Theodore Herzl
Franco-Prussian War
46. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Thermidorian Reaction
Utilitarianism
Marie Curie
47. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Thirty Years' War
North German Confederation
Legislative Assembly
Austro-Piedmontese War
48. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Holy Alliance
Assembly of Notables
Whigs
49. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Whigs
Steel
Zimmerman telegram
50. 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.
North German Confederation
Petition of Rights
Third International
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact