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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Thermidorian Reaction
Allies
Herbert Spencer
Eastern Question
2. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Crimean War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Brezhnev Doctrine
Paracelsus
3. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lusitania
Triple Alliance
4. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Frederick the Great
Black Shirt March
John Stuart Mill
Adolf Eichmann
5. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Revisionists
Potsdam
Whigs
Allies
6. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Spanish Civil War
William Gladstone
Girondins
Boer War
7. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Leipzig
Francois Voltaire
Robert Koch
8. 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.
Reform Bill
Continental System
Dual Monarchy
Revisionists
9. 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.
Tories
Eastern Question
Factory Act
Battle of Adowa
10. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Dulce et Decorum Est
Charles Montesquieu
Congress of Vienna
11. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Boer War
Assembly of Notables
Galileo Galilei
John F. Kennedy
12. 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
Napoleon
War of Austrian Succession
soviets
13. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Treaty of Tilsit
conscription
Theodore Herzl
14. 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
Potsdam
Ottoman empire dissolved
Treaty of Frankfurt
'Turnip' Townsend
15. 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.
Robert Koch
Central Powers.
Atlantic Charter
Girondins
16. 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.
Tories
Treaty of Paris
Triple Alliance
Assembly of Notables
17. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Emmeline Prankhurst
Vesalius
Nikita Khrushchev
18. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Lusitania
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Allies
Daimler and Benz
19. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Russian Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
Boer War
Axis Powers
20. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Kronstadt
Ptolemy
Ottoman empire dissolved
Committee of Public Safety
21. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Kaiser Wilhelm I
English Civil War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
22. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Joseph Stalin
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
23. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
John Locke
Jean Paul Marat
Franco-Prussian War
24. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Catherine the Great
Paris Commune
Denis Diderot
25. 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.
Berlin Conference
Bradenburg-Prussia
Giuseppe Mazzini
Chartist Movement
26. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
New Economic Policy
Treaty of Paris
Daimler and Benz
Social Democratic Party
27. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Treaty of Paris
Louis XIV
ultraroyalists
28. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Ferdinand VII
ancien regime
Sir Francis Bacon
29. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Social Democratic Party
Dutch Republic
Joseph Stalin
Boer War
30. 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
Absolutism
Thirty Years' War
Ptolemy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
The War of Jenkin's Ear
ancien regime
Spanish Civil War
Gottfried Leibniz
32. 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.
Berlin Conference
Louis XIV
Stalingrad
Steel
33. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Warsaw Pact
Austro-Piedmontese War
Edmund Burke
Isaac Newton
34. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Edinburgh
Quadruple Alliance
Franz Ferdinand
Lateran Pact
35. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Legislative Assembly
Potsdam
Kulaks
Jacobins
36. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Labour Party
Paris Commune
Marie Curie
37. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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38. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Johannes Kepler
Fabian Society
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
39. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Edict of Nantes
Absolutism
Final Solution
Giueseppe Garibaldi
40. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Adolf Eichmann
Edward Gibbon
Tories
41. 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.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Adolf Eichmann
conscription
Theodore Herzl
42. 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.
Lateran Pact
Treaty of Frankfurt
Isaac Newton
Louis Philippe I
43. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edict of Nantes
Edinburgh
Copernicus
Fascist Party
44. 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
Francois Voltaire
Greek Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
Triple Alliance
45. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Francois Voltaire
Heinrich Himmler
Assembly of Notables
46. Discovered radium.
Marie Curie
Marshall plan
Thomas Malthus
Cecil Rhodes.
47. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Johannes Kepler
Ptolemy
Free French
Transcendentalists
48. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Final Solution
Greek Revolution
Thirty Years' War
John F. Kennedy
49. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Eastern Question
Quadruple Alliance
Rene Descartes
50. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Treaty of Tilsit
fire at the Reichstag
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Paracelsus