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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Holy Alliance
Nazi
Battle of the Somme
2. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Benito Mussolini
Committee of Public Safety
Directory
Joseph Stalin
3. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Joseph II
Petition of Rights
Directory
4. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Lenin and Trotsky
The Glorious Revolution
Central Powers.
5. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Thomas Malthus
Charles Albert
Frederick the Great
Revisionists
6. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Georges Jacques Danton
New Economic Policy
Steel
Warsaw Pact
7. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Edmund Burke
Assembly of Notables
8. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Rene Descartes
ancien regime
Spanish-American War
9. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Franz Ferdinand
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Frederick the Great
John Stuart Mill
10. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Treaty of Tilsit
Edward Gibbon
Kulaks
Ferdinand VII
11. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Lusitania
Kronstadt
Emelyn Pugachev
Lateran Pact
12. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Frederick the Great
Black Shirt March
North German Confederation
Louis XIV
13. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Charles Montesquieu
Congress of Vienna
Central Powers.
14. Discovered radium.
Georges Jacques Danton
Kulaks
Marie Curie
Sergei Witte
15. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Isaac Newton
Denis Diderot
Assembly of Notables
Vesalius
16. 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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17. 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
Franz Ferdinand
Holy Alliance
Ottoman empire dissolved
Potsdam
18. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Louis Philippe I
Enigma
Greek Revolution
19. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Korean War
Fascist Party
Sir Francis Bacon
20. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Utilitarianism
Robert Koch
John Locke
21. 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.
Volksgeist
Emmanuel Sieyes
Napoleon
Atlantic Charter
22. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Thermidorian Reaction
Sir Francis Bacon
Austro-Piedmontese War
Edinburgh
23. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Legislative Assembly
Ottoman empire dissolved
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Korean War
24. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Spanish-American War
Louis Philippe I
Treaty of Paris
25. 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
Dutch Republic
Spanish Civil War
New Economic Policy
The Glorious Revolution
26. Greater freedom for Ireland.
New Economic Policy
Home Rule
conscription
vanguard
27. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Quadruple Alliance
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Holy Alliance
28. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Johannes Kepler
Transcendentalists
Adolf Eichmann
29. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Francois Voltaire
Jean Paul Marat
Axis Powers
William Gladstone
30. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Johannes Kepler
Axis Powers
Edward Gibbon
Triple Alliance
31. 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.
Russian Revolution
Blaise Pascal
Panther
Marshall plan
32. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Battle of Adowa
Axis Powers
ancien regime
33. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
'Turnip' Townsend
Dual Monarchy
Petition of Rights
Rene Descartes
34. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Francois Voltaire
Ottoman empire dissolved
Free French
35. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Oliver Cromwell
Marie Curie
Berlin Conference
Rene Descartes
36. 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.
Seven Year's War
Charles X
Labour Party
Jacobins
37. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
War of Austrian Succession
Vichy Regime
Social Democratic Party
Directory
38. 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
Thomas Malthus
Emmanuel Sieyes
Thermidorian Reaction
John Locke
39. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
War of Austrian Succession
Continental System
Revisionists
Robert Koch
40. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Allied Powers
Treaty of London
Brezhnev Doctrine
soviets
41. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Lenin and Trotsky
Concert of Europe
Seven Weeks' War
42. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Enclosure movement
Potsdam
Korean War
43. 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.
Frederick the Great
Seven Year's War
Cecil Rhodes.
soviets
44. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Jacobins
Edict of Nantes
Girondins
45. 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
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Dutch Republic
Ferdinand VII
North German Confederation
46. 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.
ancien regime
Robert Koch
John F. Kennedy
Bradenburg-Prussia
47. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Edmund Burke
White Russians
fire at the Reichstag
Treaty of Frankfurt
48. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
James Watt
Ptolemy
Treaty of Frankfurt
Charles Albert
49. 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.
Spanish-American War
The Glorious Revolution
Louis XIV
Herbert Spencer
50. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Catherine the Great
Bradenburg-Prussia
Jean Paul Marat
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