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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
James Watt
Louis XIV
John Stuart Mill
William Gladstone
2. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Easter Rising
Marshall plan
Holy Alliance
Black Shirt March
3. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Robert Koch
Friedrich Nietzsche
Allied Powers
4. A Jewish British prime minister.
Joseph II
Benjamin Disraeli
Public Health Act
Catherine the Great
5. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Fascist Party
Frederick the Great
White Russians
Triple Entente
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.
Charles Albert
Assembly of Notables
Edict of Nantes
Quadruple Alliance
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.
Battle of the Bulge
Frederick the Great
Reform Bill
Declaration of Pillnitz
8. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Ferdinand VII
Treaty of Frankfurt
Mary Wollstonecraft
9. 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.'
Stalingrad
Triple Entente
Louis XIV
Mary Wollstonecraft
10. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Piedmontese War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Triple Entente
11. 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
White Russians
Volksgeist
William Gladstone
12. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Nazi
Cecil Rhodes.
Oliver Cromwell
ancien regime
13. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Thermidorian Reaction
Heinrich Himmler
Peter the Great
Adam Smith
14. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
British East India Company
Lenin and Trotsky
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Daimler and Benz
15. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Kulaks
Free French
Utilitarianism
Committee of Public Safety
16. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Sir Francis Bacon
English Civil War
Theodore Herzl
Edward Gibbon
17. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Charles X
Austro-Piedmontese War
Boer War
Battle of the Bulge
18. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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19. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Adam Smith
Thermidor
Greek Revolution
Franz Ferdinand
20. 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.
Fascist Party
Emmeline Prankhurst
John F. Kennedy
Heinrich Himmler
21. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Easter Rising
Brezhnev Doctrine
Korean War
Zimmerman telegram
22. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Fascist Party
Absolutism
Lusitania
23. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Frederick the Great
Continental System
Axis Powers
24. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Whigs
Enigma
Denis Diderot
Zimmerman telegram
25. 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
John Stuart Mill
Spanish-American War
Potsdam
Adolf Eichmann
26. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Spanish-American War
conscription
Steel
27. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
John Stuart Mill
Thermidorian Reaction
Congress of Vienna
28. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Andrew Carnegie
Easter Rising
fire at the Reichstag
Georges Jacques Danton
29. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Social Democratic Party
Giuseppe Mazzini
Nazi
British East India Company
30. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Fabian Society
Sir Francis Bacon
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Lusitania
31. 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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32. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Secularization
Denis Diderot
French Revolution of 1848
Battle of the Somme
33. 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
Copernicus
Zimmerman telegram
Panther
Robert Koch
34. 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.
Axis Powers
British East India Company
Austro-Piedmontese War
Ottoman empire dissolved
35. 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
John Locke
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Dual Monarchy
Brezhnev Doctrine
36. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Napoleon
Red Russians
Louis Philippe I
37. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Andrew Carnegie
Frederick the Great
Sir Francis Bacon
Kronstadt
38. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Triple Entente
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dual Monarchy
Legislative Assembly
39. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Thirty Years' War
Spanish-American War
Soviet-Afghan War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
40. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Blaise Pascal
Steel
Louis Philippe I
41. A military draft
Triple Alliance
conscription
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Revisionists
42. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Ottoman empire dissolved
Battle of Adowa
John Locke
43. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Fabian Society
Free French
Factory Act
Giueseppe Garibaldi
44. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Absolutism
John Rockefeller
Sir Francis Bacon
Vesalius
45. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Transcendentalists
Galileo Galilei
Charles X
46. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Sergei Witte
Thomas Malthus
Legislative Assembly
47. Discovered radium.
ancien regime
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Ottoman empire dissolved
Marie Curie
48. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Third International
Berlin Conference
Louis XIV
Petition of Rights
49. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Revisionists
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Leipzig
Giueseppe Garibaldi
50. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Petition of Rights
Zimmerman telegram
The Glorious Revolution
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