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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Isaac Newton
Marshall plan
Atlantic Charter
2. 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.
Free French
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Gottfried Leibniz
John Stuart Mill
3. 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.
Petition of Rights
Triple Entente
Kulaks
Treaty of Tilsit
4. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Austro-Piedmontese War
William Gladstone
Third International
5. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Free French
John Locke
Committee of Public Safety
Nazi
6. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
ancien regime
Johannes Kepler
John F. Kennedy
7. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph II
Johannes Kepler
8. 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
Georges Jacques Danton
Sir Francis Bacon
Allied Powers
The Glorious Revolution
9. 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
Battle of the Somme
Free French
Tories
Isaac Newton
10. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
War of Austrian Succession
Edward Gibbon
Georges Jacques Danton
Thirty Years' War
11. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Theodore Herzl
Andrew Carnegie
Copernicus
Francois Voltaire
12. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Whigs
Robert Koch
Assembly of Notables
13. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Volksgeist
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
X-Ray
Giuseppe Mazzini
14. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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15. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
White Russians
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Kronstadt
Marshall plan
16. 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.
Petition of Rights
Lateran Pact
Black Shirt March
Battle of Adowa
17. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Dutch Republic
Thermidor
18. 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
Kronstadt
Tories
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Robert Koch
19. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Peter the Great
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Steel
Joseph Stalin
20. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Continental System
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thermidor
Final Solution
21. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
William Gladstone
Robert Koch
Gottfried Leibniz
Dulce et Decorum Est
22. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Galileo Galilei
Catherine the Great
Fascist Party
23. 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
Ptolemy
New Economic Policy
Emmanuel Sieyes
24. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Franco-Prussian War
ancien regime
Congress of Vienna
Giuseppe Mazzini
25. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Potsdam
Emmeline Prankhurst
Seven Weeks' War
John Stuart Mill
26. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
John Locke
Russo-Japanese War
Emmanuel Sieyes
Treaty of London
27. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Spanish-American War
Emmanuel Sieyes
War of Austrian Succession
28. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Lateran Pact
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Allied Powers
29. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Leipzig
Adam Smith
Cecil Rhodes.
30. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Charles Albert
John Stuart Mill
Thirty Years' War
31. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Legislative Assembly
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Denis Diderot
Russo-Japanese War
32. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Battle of the Somme
Gottfried Leibniz
Bishop Bossuet
Galileo Galilei
33. 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.
Absolutism
Battle of Adowa
Andrew Carnegie
'Turnip' Townsend
34. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Vesalius
Fabian Society
35. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Reform Bill
Transcendentalists
Revolution from Above
John F. Kennedy
36. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Panther
Legislative Assembly
Secularization
Mary Wollstonecraft
37. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Sir Francis Bacon
Emmanuel Sieyes
Allies
Battle of the Bulge
38. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Rene Descartes
Georges Jacques Danton
Declaration of Pillnitz
Red Russians
39. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Robert Koch
Austro-Piedmontese War
40. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Edinburgh
Louis XIV
Absolutism
41. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Benjamin Disraeli
Vichy Regime
Eastern Question
Blaise Pascal
42. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Emelyn Pugachev
Lusitania
Battle of Adowa
43. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Treaty of Paris
Nazi
Jacobins
Giueseppe Garibaldi
44. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Oliver Cromwell
vanguard
Vesalius
Committee of Public Safety
45. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
War of Austrian Succession
Reform Bill
Allies
46. 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.
Joseph II
Revolution from Above
Peter the Great
Crimean War
47. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
English Civil War
Spanish Civil War
Potsdam
Blaise Pascal
48. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
vanguard
Girondins
Leipzig
Revisionists
49. 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.
James Watt
Louis Philippe I
Frederick the Great
Bradenburg-Prussia
50. 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.
Catherine the Great
Bishop Bossuet
Napoleon
Marshall plan