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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Panther
Edinburgh
William Gladstone
Soviet-Afghan War
2. 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
Georges Jacques Danton
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Social Democratic Party
3. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kulaks
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Louis XIV
4. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Central Powers.
Jean Paul Marat
Red Russians
5. 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.
Rene Descartes
Napoleon
First and Second International
Korean War
6. 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
Edinburgh
Berlin Conference
Steel
7. Important ZIONIST.
Marie Curie
Theodore Herzl
Stalingrad
Emmanuel Sieyes
8. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Bradenburg-Prussia
Benito Mussolini
Mary Wollstonecraft
9. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Bradenburg-Prussia
John Stuart Mill
Battle of Adowa
Easter Rising
10. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
ultraroyalists
Vladimir Lenin
Steel
11. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Petition of Rights
Utilitarianism
12. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Spanish Civil War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Secularization
13. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Petition of Rights
Thomas Malthus
Adolf Eichmann
Giueseppe Garibaldi
14. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
ancien regime
Free French
Mary Wollstonecraft
15. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Final Solution
Isaac Newton
Directory
ultraroyalists
16. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Vladimir Lenin
ancien regime
Edict of Nantes
Triple Entente
17. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Directory
Emmanuel Sieyes
Peter the Great
18. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Directory
Adolf Eichmann
John Rockefeller
Soviet-Afghan War
19. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Catherine the Great
Panther
Galileo Galilei
Petition of Rights
20. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Vichy Regime
Peter the Great
Treaty of Frankfurt
Korean War
21. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Cecil Rhodes.
Battle of the Bulge
22. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
conscription
Thermidor
Free French
Quadruple Alliance
23. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Continental System
Benito Mussolini
Stalingrad
Allied Powers
24. Britain and America
Rene Descartes
Marshall plan
Allied Powers
Edward Gibbon
25. 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.
Transcendentalists
Ptolemy
Paracelsus
Battle of the Somme
26. A Jewish British prime minister.
New Economic Policy
Gottfried Leibniz
French Revolution of 1848
Benjamin Disraeli
27. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Social Democratic Party
Volksgeist
Catherine the Great
28. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
ultraroyalists
Allied Powers
Fabian Society
English Civil War
29. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Petition of Rights
Boer War
30. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Absolutism
Kronstadt
Ptolemy
Sergei Witte
31. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Nazi
Dulce et Decorum Est
ancien regime
Oliver Cromwell
32. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Utilitarianism
New Economic Policy
Cecil Rhodes.
Free French
33. 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.
Kronstadt
Louis Philippe I
Vichy Regime
Robert Koch
34. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Factory Act
Committee of Public Safety
Directory
35. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Crimean War
Denis Diderot
Thomas Malthus
36. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Marie Curie
John Locke
Stalingrad
New Economic Policy
37. 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.
Adam Smith
Galileo Galilei
Seven Weeks' War
Seven Year's War
38. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Vesalius
Home Rule
Battle of the Somme
39. 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.
Directory
John F. Kennedy
Paracelsus
Joseph II
40. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Dulce et Decorum Est
Galileo Galilei
Lenin and Trotsky
41. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Declaration of Pillnitz
Directory
Treaty of Frankfurt
42. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Denis Diderot
Edict of Nantes
Triple Entente
43. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Sergei Witte
Rene Descartes
Edmund Burke
Edict of Nantes
44. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Nazi
Enclosure movement
Giueseppe Garibaldi
45. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Directory
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Edict of Nantes
Denis Diderot
46. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Treaty of Tilsit
Easter Rising
Central Powers.
47. 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)
Enigma
Benito Mussolini
Joseph II
Steel
48. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Congress of Vienna
vanguard
ultraroyalists
Sir Francis Bacon
49. 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.
Reform Bill
Dutch Republic
Ptolemy
Nikita Khrushchev
50. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Gottfried Leibniz
Stalingrad
William Gladstone
Paris Commune
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