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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
William Gladstone
Labour Party
Daimler and Benz
Greek Revolution
2. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
John Rockefeller
Enigma
fire at the Reichstag
Rene Descartes
3. Extermination of the Jews.
Herbert Spencer
Final Solution
Factory Act
Allies
4. 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.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Russian Revolution
X-Ray
Declaration of Pillnitz
5. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Blaise Pascal
Warsaw Pact
Charles X
6. 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.
Congress of Vienna
Edinburgh
Bishop Bossuet
conscription
7. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Steel
Bradenburg-Prussia
Free French
8. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Georges Jacques Danton
Transcendentalists
Lenin and Trotsky
9. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Secularization
Public Health Act
Vichy Regime
Denis Diderot
10. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Emmanuel Sieyes
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Napoleon
11. 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.
Black Shirt March
British East India Company
Edmund Burke
Kronstadt
12. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Committee of Public Safety
Whigs
Transcendentalists
13. 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.
Triple Alliance
X-Ray
Fascist Party
Louis Philippe I
14. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Oliver Cromwell
John Rockefeller
Allies
Sir Francis Bacon
15. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Sergei Witte
Copernicus
Atlantic Charter
Catherine the Great
16. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Revolution from Above
Louis XIV
Treaty of Frankfurt
17. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
White Russians
Spanish-American War
Ptolemy
Georges Jacques Danton
18. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Sergei Witte
Battle of Adowa
Declaration of Pillnitz
James Watt
19. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
'Turnip' Townsend
Charles Montesquieu
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Robert Koch
20. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Factory Act
Bradenburg-Prussia
Dual Monarchy
21. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Giuseppe Mazzini
Benito Mussolini
22. 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
English Civil War
Joseph Stalin
Daimler and Benz
Brezhnev Doctrine
23. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Continental System
Ottoman empire dissolved
Marie Curie
24. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Russo-Japanese War
Nazi
Ottoman empire dissolved
25. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Franco-Prussian War
Easter Rising
Nazi
Franz Ferdinand
26. 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.
Spanish-American War
Black Shirt March
Revisionists
Directory
27. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Zimmerman telegram
Dulce et Decorum Est
Easter Rising
Brezhnev Doctrine
28. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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29. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Transcendentalists
Ferdinand VII
Holy Alliance
30. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
John Locke
Boer War
Holy Alliance
Social Democratic Party
31. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Catherine the Great
Vesalius
Triple Alliance
Dutch Republic
32. 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.
Transcendentalists
Bradenburg-Prussia
Assembly of Notables
Charles Albert
33. A military draft
conscription
Frederick the Great
William Gladstone
Allied Powers
34. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
vanguard
British East India Company
Vladimir Lenin
35. Founded the Salvation Army
Franz Ferdinand
William and Catherine Booth
Holy Alliance
Atlantic Charter
36. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
White Russians
Lenin and Trotsky
John F. Kennedy
John Locke
37. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Dutch Republic
War of Austrian Succession
Galileo Galilei
Central Powers.
38. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Black Shirt March
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Free French
39. 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.
British East India Company
Count Cavour
Crimean War
Revolution from Above
40. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
French Revolution of 1848
Zimmerman telegram
Ottoman empire dissolved
Johannes Kepler
41. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Paris Commune
Austria-Hungary
Galileo Galilei
Committee of Public Safety
42. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Joseph Stalin
Assembly of Notables
Ottoman empire dissolved
Free French
43. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
ancien regime
Quadruple Alliance
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Potsdam
44. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
X-Ray
Stalingrad
Emelyn Pugachev
45. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Greek Revolution
Louis Philippe I
Edinburgh
46. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Kulaks
Frederick the Great
Vesalius
47. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Isaac Newton
White Russians
Easter Rising
48. 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.
Fabian Society
Frederick the Great
Committee of Public Safety
Concert of Europe
49. 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
Greek Revolution
Eastern Question
Treaty of London
50. 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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