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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Johannes Kepler
Thomas Malthus
Joseph II
Eastern Question
2. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Sir Francis Bacon
Treaty of London
Quadruple Alliance
3. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Cecil Rhodes.
Revolution from Above
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
4. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Thermidor
Home Rule
fire at the Reichstag
Lateran Pact
5. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Atlantic Charter
Emmeline Prankhurst
Leipzig
Friedrich Nietzsche
6. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Austria-Hungary
Count Cavour
Edinburgh
soviets
7. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
War of Austrian Succession
Austria-Hungary
Charles Albert
8. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Treaty of Tilsit
Adam Smith
Continental System
Ptolemy
9. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Marshall plan
Georges Jacques Danton
Seven Year's War
Korean War
10. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Dutch Republic
Soviet-Afghan War
Central Powers.
Holy Alliance
11. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Concert of Europe
Atlantic Charter
Gottfried Leibniz
12. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Thermidorian Reaction
Atlantic Charter
Ottoman empire dissolved
13. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Charles Albert
Utilitarianism
Oliver Cromwell
Blaise Pascal
14. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Isaac Newton
Herbert Spencer
Transcendentalists
Sir Francis Bacon
15. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Dual Monarchy
First and Second International
Vladimir Lenin
16. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Reform Bill
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Sir Francis Bacon
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
17. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Declaration of Pillnitz
Jacobins
Daimler and Benz
18. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Kaiser Wilhelm I
'Turnip' Townsend
Third International
19. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Paracelsus
Allied Powers
Lenin and Trotsky
Quadruple Alliance
20. Extermination of the Jews.
Copernicus
Final Solution
New Economic Policy
Atlantic Charter
21. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
soviets
Central Powers.
Korean War
22. 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.
ultraroyalists
Home Rule
Volksgeist
Thermidor
23. 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.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Vichy Regime
Bradenburg-Prussia
Factory Act
24. 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
Ferdinand VII
Dulce et Decorum Est
Soviet-Afghan War
Zimmerman telegram
25. 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
Battle of the Somme
Eastern Question
English Civil War
26. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Russian Revolution
English Civil War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Paris Commune
27. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Volksgeist
John Stuart Mill
Blaise Pascal
Labour Party
28. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Johannes Kepler
Crimean War
Public Health Act
Franco-Prussian War
29. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emmeline Prankhurst
Public Health Act
Factory Act
30. (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
vanguard
Factory Act
Peter the Great
31. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Social Democratic Party
Charles X
Treaty of Paris
Panther
32. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Utilitarianism
French Revolution of 1848
Gottfried Leibniz
Secularization
33. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Steel
Chartist Movement
Whigs
34. 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.
Adam Smith
Petition of Rights
Galileo Galilei
Edict of Nantes
35. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Mary Wollstonecraft
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Bulge
36. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Johannes Kepler
Greek Revolution
Legislative Assembly
Stalingrad
37. 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.
Red Russians
Adam Smith
Treaty of Tilsit
Axis Powers
38. 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-Jacques Rousseau
Ferdinand VII
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Labour Party
39. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
White Russians
Lusitania
Seven Year's War
Edinburgh
40. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Dual Monarchy
Red Russians
Holy Alliance
41. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Declaration of Pillnitz
North German Confederation
Revisionists
42. 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.
Continental System
Spanish-American War
Panther
Paracelsus
43. 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
Copernicus
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Eastern Question
Zimmerman telegram
44. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Battle of the Bulge
Frederick the Great
Red Russians
Third International
45. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Final Solution
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Holy Alliance
Theodore Herzl
46. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Marie Curie
Blaise Pascal
Edmund Burke
Thermidor
47. 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
Francois Voltaire
John Locke
Enigma
Final Solution
48. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
X-Ray
Quadruple Alliance
Galileo Galilei
Heinrich Himmler
49. 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.
Transcendentalists
Thermidor
Secularization
Factory Act
50. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Fascist Party
Thermidor
Reform Bill