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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
Marshall plan
Lenin and Trotsky
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edmund Burke
2. 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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3. 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.
Committee of Public Safety
Allies
Triple Alliance
British East India Company
4. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Triple Alliance
Chartist Movement
Lenin and Trotsky
5. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
conscription
Kronstadt
Triple Entente
Edict of Nantes
6. 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.
Napoleon
Declaration of Pillnitz
Ottoman empire dissolved
Vichy Regime
7. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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8. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Legislative Assembly
Factory Act
Crimean War
White Russians
9. A military draft
William and Catherine Booth
Cecil Rhodes.
conscription
Lenin and Trotsky
10. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Johannes Kepler
William Gladstone
Seven Year's War
Sir Francis Bacon
11. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
vanguard
Francois Voltaire
Ferdinand VII
Andrew Carnegie
12. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Enigma
Directory
Steel
Blaise Pascal
13. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Glorious Revolution
Giueseppe Garibaldi
14. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Austria-Hungary
Quadruple Alliance
Ottoman empire dissolved
15. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
John F. Kennedy
John Locke
John Stuart Mill
16. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Revolution from Above
Austro-Piedmontese War
Edinburgh
Kaiser Wilhelm I
17. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Leipzig
Ptolemy
Giuseppe Mazzini
Transcendentalists
18. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Triple Entente
Peter the Great
Thermidorian Reaction
Vesalius
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
Francois Voltaire
Adam Smith
fire at the Reichstag
Allies
20. 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
Spanish Civil War
War of Austrian Succession
Dutch Republic
Triple Entente
21. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Bishop Bossuet
Eastern Question
Third International
22. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Holy Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
Enclosure movement
Russo-Japanese War
23. 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.
Ptolemy
John Locke
French Revolution of 1848
Marshall plan
24. (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
Spanish Civil War
Enclosure movement
War of Austrian Succession
Battle of the Somme
25. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Daimler and Benz
Brezhnev Doctrine
Stalingrad
Edward Gibbon
26. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Whigs
Charles Albert
Vichy Regime
Louis XIV
27. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
'Turnip' Townsend
Theodore Herzl
Count Cavour
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
28. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Adolf Eichmann
Potsdam
Lusitania
Spanish Civil War
29. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Joseph II
Treaty of Frankfurt
Chartist Movement
Kronstadt
30. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Enigma
Bishop Bossuet
Louis Philippe I
31. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Vesalius
Easter Rising
Chartist Movement
Sir Francis Bacon
32. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Andrew Carnegie
Vesalius
Final Solution
Fascist Party
33. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Sergei Witte
Friedrich Nietzsche
Panther
Committee of Public Safety
34. 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
Oliver Cromwell
English Civil War
Thomas Malthus
Committee of Public Safety
35. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Revisionists
Transcendentalists
Lusitania
James Watt
36. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
John Rockefeller
Congress of Vienna
Nikita Khrushchev
Atlantic Charter
37. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Revisionists
John F. Kennedy
Vesalius
38. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
White Russians
Brezhnev Doctrine
Charles Montesquieu
Social Democratic Party
39. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Edict of Nantes
Copernicus
Peter the Great
Kaiser Wilhelm I
40. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Revisionists
Ptolemy
Whigs
John Rockefeller
41. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Congress of Vienna
Adam Smith
English Civil War
Absolutism
42. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Tories
Stalingrad
Seven Year's War
43. 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.
Easter Rising
Charles X
Lateran Pact
Dutch Republic
44. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Lusitania
Revolution from Above
Charles X
45. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Benjamin Disraeli
Lenin and Trotsky
46. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
John Rockefeller
Franz Ferdinand
Congress of Vienna
Giueseppe Garibaldi
47. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
X-Ray
Joseph II
Third International
48. 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.
Louis Philippe I
Steel
Adolf Eichmann
Absolutism
49. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thirty Years' War
Steel
Oliver Cromwell
Thomas Malthus
50. 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.
Joseph II
Blaise Pascal
Franco-Prussian War
Free French