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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI






2. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.






3. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.






4. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.






5. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.






6. 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






7. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






8. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.






13. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.






14. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.






15. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.






16. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.






17. Invented CROP ROTATION.

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18. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.






19. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.






20. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.






21. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.






22. Germany - Italy - and Japan






23. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.






24. 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.'






25. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.






26. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.






27. 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).






28. A Jewish British prime minister.






29. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.






30. 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.






31. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.






32. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.






33. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.






34. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.






35. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.






36. 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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37. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.






38. 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






39. 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.






40. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.






41. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.






42. 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.






43. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.






44. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.






45. 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






46. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.






47. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.






48. 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.






49. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.






50. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.