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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Third International
Adolf Eichmann
Russian Revolution
John Rockefeller
2. Extermination of the Jews.
Tories
Mary Wollstonecraft
Final Solution
Berlin Conference
3. 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.
Russo-Japanese War
Panther
Charles Albert
Warsaw Pact
4. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
White Russians
'Turnip' Townsend
British East India Company
Kulaks
5. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Isaac Newton
Treaty of Tilsit
Marshall plan
6. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Chartist Movement
Quadruple Alliance
British East India Company
7. 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.
'Turnip' Townsend
Edmund Burke
Daimler and Benz
Crimean War
8. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Edmund Burke
Dutch Republic
Transcendentalists
Paracelsus
9. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Franco-Prussian War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Korean War
conscription
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.
Edmund Burke
Battle of the Bulge
French Revolution of 1848
Thomas Malthus
11. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Continental System
James Watt
Bradenburg-Prussia
Heinrich Himmler
12. 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.
Boer War
Fascist Party
Edward Gibbon
Black Shirt March
13. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Thermidorian Reaction
Vladimir Lenin
North German Confederation
14. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Sergei Witte
Vichy Regime
The War of Jenkin's Ear
15. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Public Health Act
Edward Gibbon
Secularization
16. Important ZIONIST.
Continental System
Theodore Herzl
Red Russians
Ferdinand VII
17. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Vichy Regime
Holy Alliance
Charles Montesquieu
18. 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.
Black Shirt March
Fabian Society
soviets
Treaty of Tilsit
19. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Andrew Carnegie
Revisionists
James Watt
The Glorious Revolution
20. 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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21. 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.
William Gladstone
Francois Voltaire
Transcendentalists
Austro-Hungarian Empire
22. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Treaty of Frankfurt
ancien regime
Panther
23. 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.
Ptolemy
Volksgeist
Labour Party
Absolutism
24. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Quadruple Alliance
'Turnip' Townsend
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
25. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Atlantic Charter
Catherine the Great
Theodore Herzl
Giuseppe Mazzini
26. 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.
Potsdam
fire at the Reichstag
Central Powers.
Galileo Galilei
27. 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
Potsdam
Zimmerman telegram
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Kaiser Wilhelm I
28. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Francois Voltaire
Sergei Witte
Giuseppe Mazzini
29. 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.
Charles X
Sir Francis Bacon
Axis Powers
Andrew Carnegie
30. 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.
Easter Rising
Black Shirt March
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
31. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Red Russians
Andrew Carnegie
Treaty of Frankfurt
Secularization
32. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Louis Philippe I
Stalingrad
Count Cavour
33. 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.
Joseph II
Oliver Cromwell
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Thermidorian Reaction
34. 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).
William Gladstone
Georges Jacques Danton
Gottfried Leibniz
New Economic Policy
35. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Ptolemy
Allies
36. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Steel
Paracelsus
John Stuart Mill
Legislative Assembly
37. 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.
Stalingrad
Black Shirt March
Petition of Rights
Committee of Public Safety
38. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Benito Mussolini
Enclosure movement
Kronstadt
Zimmerman telegram
39. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Free French
Triple Entente
Absolutism
40. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Adam Smith
Allies
Soviet-Afghan War
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Continental System
Committee of Public Safety
John Rockefeller
Austro-Piedmontese War
42. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Whigs
Denis Diderot
Bishop Bossuet
Utilitarianism
43. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Potsdam
Edict of Nantes
Charles Albert
Edinburgh
44. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thirty Years' War
John Locke
Marshall plan
45. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Jacobins
Battle of the Somme
Assembly of Notables
Treaty of Tilsit
46. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Girondins
Oliver Cromwell
Absolutism
Count Cavour
47. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Adolf Eichmann
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Gottfried Leibniz
Boer War
48. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Stalingrad
Seven Weeks' War
Jacobins
Edmund Burke
49. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Legislative Assembly
ancien regime
Spanish Civil War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
50. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Benito Mussolini
Franco-Prussian War
Thermidor
Battle of the Bulge