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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Joseph II
French Revolution of 1848
Warsaw Pact
John Rockefeller
2. 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.
Soviet-Afghan War
Battle of the Somme
Greek Revolution
Congress of Vienna
3. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Ottoman empire dissolved
fire at the Reichstag
John Rockefeller
4. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Georges Jacques Danton
Easter Rising
Black Shirt March
5. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Factory Act
Daimler and Benz
Charles X
Allies
6. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Treaty of London
Austro-Piedmontese War
Soviet-Afghan War
Zimmerman telegram
7. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Russo-Japanese War
Bishop Bossuet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Concert of Europe
8. 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
Social Democratic Party
Red Russians
John Locke
Factory Act
9. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Austria-Hungary
conscription
Declaration of Pillnitz
Nikita Khrushchev
10. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Russian Revolution
Quadruple Alliance
Giuseppe Mazzini
Charles Albert
11. 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
Thermidor
Nazi
Whigs
12. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Count Cavour
Ptolemy
Heinrich Himmler
Triple Alliance
13. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Treaty of Paris
Russo-Japanese War
Secularization
14. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Legislative Assembly
Jacobins
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Austro-Piedmontese War
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.
Frederick the Great
Austria-Hungary
James Watt
Treaty of London
16. 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.
Holy Alliance
Nikita Khrushchev
Herbert Spencer
Battle of the Bulge
17. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
New Economic Policy
Edinburgh
Ottoman empire dissolved
Revisionists
18. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Zimmerman telegram
Francois Voltaire
Eastern Question
Dual Monarchy
19. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Factory Act
Charles X
Charles Montesquieu
20. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Eastern Question
Catherine the Great
John Stuart Mill
New Economic Policy
21. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
John F. Kennedy
Enigma
Vladimir Lenin
First and Second International
22. 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.
Steel
Adolf Eichmann
Ferdinand VII
British East India Company
23. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Russian Revolution
Kronstadt
Revisionists
Joseph Stalin
24. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Giuseppe Mazzini
soviets
English Civil War
25. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Third International
Easter Rising
Treaty of Tilsit
Charles Albert
26. Founded the Salvation Army
Gottfried Leibniz
Edmund Burke
William and Catherine Booth
Rene Descartes
27. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Holy Alliance
Paris Commune
Revisionists
28. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Enigma
Warsaw Pact
Revolution from Above
William Gladstone
29. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
William and Catherine Booth
Gottfried Leibniz
Kulaks
Fabian Society
30. 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.
Crimean War
Home Rule
Emmanuel Sieyes
Gottfried Leibniz
31. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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32. 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.
Enigma
Bradenburg-Prussia
Thomas Malthus
Franco-Prussian War
33. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Free French
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vladimir Lenin
Steel
34. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Treaty of Paris
Peter the Great
Kronstadt
Adam Smith
35. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Edmund Burke
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
Volksgeist
36. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Charles Albert
Vladimir Lenin
Transcendentalists
Stalingrad
37. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Frederick the Great
Herbert Spencer
Triple Entente
William Gladstone
38. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Nikita Khrushchev
Lenin and Trotsky
Edict of Nantes
Paris Commune
39. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Nazi
Paracelsus
Leipzig
Social Democratic Party
40. Important ZIONIST.
Adolf Eichmann
Theodore Herzl
Volksgeist
conscription
41. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Seven Weeks' War
Frederick the Great
Gottfried Leibniz
42. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Greek Revolution
Home Rule
Whigs
Utilitarianism
43. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Fascist Party
Brezhnev Doctrine
Herbert Spencer
44. 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
Thermidor
Crimean War
Enclosure movement
45. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Tories
fire at the Reichstag
Girondins
46. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Warsaw Pact
Red Russians
ancien regime
47. Extermination of the Jews.
John Rockefeller
Isaac Newton
Public Health Act
Final Solution
48. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Greek Revolution
Enclosure movement
Russian Revolution
49. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Dutch Republic
Revolution from Above
Berlin Conference
Fabian Society
50. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Daimler and Benz
'Turnip' Townsend
Battle of the Somme
Eastern Question