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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
The Glorious Revolution
Vichy Regime
Sergei Witte
Bishop Bossuet
2. 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
Edmund Burke
Benjamin Disraeli
Francois Voltaire
ultraroyalists
3. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Black Shirt March
John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft
4. 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
Paracelsus
Edward Gibbon
Ferdinand VII
Dutch Republic
5. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Charles X
Theodore Herzl
Zimmerman telegram
Franco-Prussian War
6. 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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph II
War of Austrian Succession
Robert Koch
7. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Andrew Carnegie
Galileo Galilei
Sergei Witte
8. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Ptolemy
Berlin Conference
Denis Diderot
The Glorious Revolution
9. Founded the Salvation Army
Dulce et Decorum Est
Potsdam
Edinburgh
William and Catherine Booth
10. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Lateran Pact
French Revolution of 1848
New Economic Policy
11. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Lateran Pact
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Austro-Hungarian Empire
12. 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)
Gottfried Leibniz
Utilitarianism
Benito Mussolini
Friedrich Nietzsche
13. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Count Cavour
Kaiser Wilhelm I
John F. Kennedy
Triple Alliance
14. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Emmeline Prankhurst
Atlantic Charter
Dual Monarchy
15. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
Joseph II
Theodore Herzl
Francois Voltaire
16. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Denis Diderot
Vesalius
Rene Descartes
17. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
fire at the Reichstag
First and Second International
Boer War
Kulaks
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.
Louis Philippe I
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
William Gladstone
19. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Isaac Newton
Nazi
Gottfried Leibniz
Dutch Republic
20. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edmund Burke
Peter the Great
Count Cavour
21. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Russian Revolution
English Civil War
Louis XIV
22. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Georges Jacques Danton
Black Shirt March
Friedrich Nietzsche
John F. Kennedy
23. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Paris Commune
Thomas Malthus
Warsaw Pact
Daimler and Benz
24. 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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25. 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
Seven Weeks' War
Axis Powers
British East India Company
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
26. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Allies
Copernicus
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
27. 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.
John Rockefeller
Whigs
Black Shirt March
Nikita Khrushchev
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.
Isaac Newton
Lateran Pact
Georges Jacques Danton
Copernicus
29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Leipzig
First and Second International
Treaty of Paris
Absolutism
30. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Black Shirt March
French Revolution of 1848
Leipzig
31. (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
Transcendentalists
Public Health Act
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
War of Austrian Succession
32. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Nikita Khrushchev
Spanish Civil War
Enigma
33. 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.
Marshall plan
Oliver Cromwell
Battle of Adowa
Sergei Witte
34. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Factory Act
Sir Francis Bacon
Public Health Act
Joseph Stalin
35. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Fascist Party
Free French
Blaise Pascal
Giuseppe Mazzini
36. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Lusitania
Allied Powers
Crimean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
37. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Denis Diderot
William and Catherine Booth
Thermidorian Reaction
Fabian Society
38. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Georges Jacques Danton
Sir Francis Bacon
Lenin and Trotsky
Joseph II
39. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Franz Ferdinand
Galileo Galilei
James Watt
Whigs
40. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Kulaks
Benito Mussolini
Ptolemy
Revolution from Above
41. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Jean Paul Marat
British East India Company
Chartist Movement
42. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Thermidor
ancien regime
Ptolemy
43. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Dual Monarchy
Andrew Carnegie
vanguard
44. 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
Vichy Regime
Paris Commune
Andrew Carnegie
Potsdam
45. 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
John Locke
Greek Revolution
Dutch Republic
Joseph Stalin
46. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
conscription
Joseph Stalin
Edict of Nantes
Factory Act
47. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Napoleon
Joseph II
Vesalius
48. 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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49. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Third International
Giuseppe Mazzini
X-Ray
Kaiser Wilhelm I
50. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Easter Rising
Adam Smith
Brest-Litovsk Treaty