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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Spanish Civil War
Reform Bill
Lenin and Trotsky
2. 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
Nikita Khrushchev
Free French
English Civil War
Petition of Rights
3. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
John Stuart Mill
Emmanuel Sieyes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Transcendentalists
4. Britain and America
Congress of Vienna
'Turnip' Townsend
Lenin and Trotsky
Allied Powers
5. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Central Powers.
Declaration of Pillnitz
6. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Thomas Malthus
Giuseppe Mazzini
Kronstadt
Stalingrad
7. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Cecil Rhodes.
The Glorious Revolution
New Economic Policy
Revisionists
8. 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.
Louis XIV
Marie Curie
Chartist Movement
War of Austrian Succession
9. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Lenin and Trotsky
Tories
Thomas Malthus
Central Powers.
10. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Concert of Europe
Volksgeist
Spanish-American War
11. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Thermidor
conscription
Spanish Civil War
Gottfried Leibniz
12. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
ultraroyalists
Thermidor
Warsaw Pact
Tories
13. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Stalingrad
Gottfried Leibniz
Dual Monarchy
14. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
fire at the Reichstag
Emelyn Pugachev
Continental System
Franz Ferdinand
15. 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.
Panther
Utilitarianism
Franz Ferdinand
Assembly of Notables
16. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Catherine the Great
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Franco-Prussian War
17. 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.
Stalingrad
Lateran Pact
Oliver Cromwell
Galileo Galilei
18. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Count Cavour
Russo-Japanese War
Lenin and Trotsky
Kronstadt
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.
Triple Entente
Georges Jacques Danton
Transcendentalists
Isaac Newton
20. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
John Locke
Isaac Newton
Louis Philippe I
Red Russians
21. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Jacobins
Whigs
Benito Mussolini
Declaration of Pillnitz
22. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Stalingrad
Utilitarianism
Russo-Japanese War
Dual Monarchy
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.
Adolf Eichmann
Edward Gibbon
Nazi
Austro-Hungarian Empire
24. 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
X-Ray
Francois Voltaire
Benito Mussolini
Revisionists
25. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Russian Revolution
Warsaw Pact
Russo-Japanese War
26. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
'Turnip' Townsend
Allied Powers
Steel
27. 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.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Panther
Vichy Regime
Paris Commune
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
Battle of the Somme
John Locke
Quadruple Alliance
Seven Year's War
29. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Frederick the Great
Directory
30. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Thermidorian Reaction
Concert of Europe
Soviet-Afghan War
Friedrich Nietzsche
31. 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.
Spanish-American War
Thermidor
Central Powers.
British East India Company
32. 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.
Holy Alliance
Andrew Carnegie
Herbert Spencer
Chartist Movement
33. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Tories
Potsdam
Leipzig
34. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Bishop Bossuet
Battle of the Somme
Triple Entente
Ptolemy
35. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Axis Powers
Atlantic Charter
Easter Rising
North German Confederation
36. 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.
Ptolemy
Girondins
Social Democratic Party
Adam Smith
37. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Emmeline Prankhurst
Isaac Newton
Paracelsus
38. 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.
Assembly of Notables
First and Second International
Eastern Question
Blaise Pascal
39. 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.
Marie Curie
Copernicus
Petition of Rights
Reform Bill
40. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Seven Weeks' War
Paris Commune
Kulaks
ancien regime
41. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Marshall plan
Utilitarianism
English Civil War
Sir Francis Bacon
42. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Joseph II
Seven Year's War
Tories
43. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Paracelsus
Secularization
Directory
Russian Revolution
44. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Gottfried Leibniz
Franz Ferdinand
Nikita Khrushchev
Theodore Herzl
45. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Quadruple Alliance
Russian Revolution
Battle of the Bulge
Third International
46. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Potsdam
Heinrich Himmler
soviets
Revolution from Above
47. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
ultraroyalists
Brezhnev Doctrine
John Rockefeller
48. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Legislative Assembly
Whigs
Free French
Emelyn Pugachev
49. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Triple Entente
Adam Smith
Seven Weeks' War
50. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
English Civil War
Transcendentalists
Central Powers.
Fabian Society
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