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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Dual Monarchy
Kulaks
Adam Smith
Triple Entente
2. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Atlantic Charter
Berlin Conference
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Allied Powers
3. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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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.
Thirty Years' War
Easter Rising
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Benjamin Disraeli
5. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Free French
Adam Smith
Leipzig
Revolution from Above
6. 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.
X-Ray
White Russians
Kronstadt
Black Shirt March
7. 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
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Spanish-American War
Treaty of London
8. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Spanish-American War
Assembly of Notables
Paris Commune
9. Extermination of the Jews.
Girondins
Count Cavour
Declaration of Pillnitz
Final Solution
10. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Central Powers.
Lenin and Trotsky
Cecil Rhodes.
Battle of the Somme
11. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Copernicus
Berlin Conference
Theodore Herzl
Mary Wollstonecraft
12. 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.
Denis Diderot
Vesalius
Napoleon
ultraroyalists
13. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Dutch Republic
Enclosure movement
Reform Bill
14. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
X-Ray
Catherine the Great
North German Confederation
Atlantic Charter
15. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Holy Alliance
Rene Descartes
soviets
Marie Curie
16. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Emelyn Pugachev
English Civil War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Stalin
17. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
John Locke
Ottoman empire dissolved
Lenin and Trotsky
Panther
18. 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.
Seven Year's War
Lateran Pact
Committee of Public Safety
Absolutism
19. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Count Cavour
Franco-Prussian War
The Glorious Revolution
Heinrich Himmler
20. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Andrew Carnegie
Triple Alliance
Gottfried Leibniz
Public Health Act
21. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Cecil Rhodes.
Marshall plan
Dutch Republic
22. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Vladimir Lenin
Thomas Malthus
Steel
Legislative Assembly
23. 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
Spanish Civil War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Fabian Society
Treaty of Tilsit
24. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph II
Volksgeist
25. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Emelyn Pugachev
War of Austrian Succession
Austro-Piedmontese War
26. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Dutch Republic
Kulaks
Whigs
Volksgeist
27. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Seven Year's War
Edict of Nantes
Marshall plan
Red Russians
28. 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.
Kulaks
Francois Voltaire
North German Confederation
Copernicus
29. 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
Third International
Vladimir Lenin
First and Second International
30. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Nikita Khrushchev
Vichy Regime
Crimean War
War of Austrian Succession
31. 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.
Holy Alliance
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
32. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Holy Alliance
Jacobins
Spanish Civil War
Battle of the Somme
33. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Girondins
William and Catherine Booth
Axis Powers
Directory
34. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
William Gladstone
Napoleon
Paracelsus
Sir Francis Bacon
35. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Battle of the Somme
North German Confederation
Charles Albert
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
36. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Paracelsus
White Russians
Leipzig
Heinrich Himmler
37. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Russian Revolution
Seven Year's War
Quadruple Alliance
Cecil Rhodes.
38. 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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39. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Spanish Civil War
Triple Entente
Lateran Pact
Robert Koch
40. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Herbert Spencer
Absolutism
Louis Philippe I
41. (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
Herbert Spencer
War of Austrian Succession
Enigma
Theodore Herzl
42. 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
Eastern Question
Central Powers.
Dutch Republic
fire at the Reichstag
43. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Treaty of Paris
Fabian Society
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Gottfried Leibniz
44. 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 Weeks' War
Charles X
Factory Act
Final Solution
45. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Louis Philippe I
Marie Curie
Copernicus
46. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Revisionists
New Economic Policy
Blaise Pascal
47. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Paris Commune
Leipzig
Congress of Vienna
First and Second International
48. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Sergei Witte
Triple Alliance
Vichy Regime
X-Ray
49. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Secularization
Dual Monarchy
Benjamin Disraeli
Heinrich Himmler
50. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
William Gladstone
Nikita Khrushchev
Francois Voltaire
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