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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Joseph II
Nikita Khrushchev
Utilitarianism
ancien regime
2. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Benito Mussolini
Enclosure movement
Petition of Rights
3. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Reform Bill
Count Cavour
Utilitarianism
Final Solution
4. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
X-Ray
John Locke
The Glorious Revolution
New Economic Policy
5. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Rene Descartes
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Labour Party
Sir Francis Bacon
6. A military draft
conscription
Thomas Malthus
Concert of Europe
Enigma
7. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Axis Powers
Paris Commune
Benjamin Disraeli
8. 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
Adam Smith
Revolution from Above
Axis Powers
9. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Edward Gibbon
Treaty of Tilsit
Lateran Pact
10. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sir Francis Bacon
William and Catherine Booth
Girondins
11. 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
Triple Entente
Francois Voltaire
Allies
Napoleon
12. 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.
John F. Kennedy
ancien regime
Joseph Stalin
Austro-Hungarian Empire
13. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Robert Koch
Gottfried Leibniz
Louis XIV
Edmund Burke
14. 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.
Third International
X-Ray
Napoleon
Kaiser Wilhelm I
15. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Heinrich Himmler
Berlin Conference
Lateran Pact
Spanish-American War
16. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Battle of the Bulge
Denis Diderot
Herbert Spencer
Axis Powers
17. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
New Economic Policy
Soviet-Afghan War
Emmeline Prankhurst
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
18. 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
Battle of the Somme
Directory
Fascist Party
19. 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
conscription
William and Catherine Booth
Paris Commune
20. 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.
Easter Rising
Revisionists
Soviet-Afghan War
Girondins
21. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
22. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Jean Paul Marat
Warsaw Pact
Allies
Austro-Piedmontese War
23. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Austria-Hungary
Social Democratic Party
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Vladimir Lenin
24. 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
Lateran Pact
Dulce et Decorum Est
Adam Smith
Isaac Newton
25. 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
Thirty Years' War
conscription
Edward Gibbon
26. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
William Gladstone
Charles Montesquieu
Axis Powers
Triple Entente
27. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Lateran Pact
Franz Ferdinand
Treaty of Paris
Galileo Galilei
28. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Charles X
Cecil Rhodes.
Edict of Nantes
Paracelsus
29. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Vesalius
Chartist Movement
Benjamin Disraeli
Galileo Galilei
30. 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)
First and Second International
Benito Mussolini
John Rockefeller
Legislative Assembly
31. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
The Glorious Revolution
Kronstadt
Leipzig
Stalingrad
32. 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.
Panther
John Locke
Directory
Adolf Eichmann
33. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Revolution from Above
Thomas Malthus
Nikita Khrushchev
Lateran Pact
34. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Thermidorian Reaction
Blaise Pascal
Emelyn Pugachev
Battle of the Bulge
35. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Leipzig
Revisionists
Louis XIV
Warsaw Pact
36. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Directory
Kulaks
Benjamin Disraeli
37. 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.
Robert Koch
Triple Entente
Whigs
Crimean War
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.
Marie Curie
War of Austrian Succession
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Sir Francis Bacon
39. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
40. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Potsdam
'Turnip' Townsend
Enclosure movement
Giueseppe Garibaldi
41. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Fascist Party
Treaty of London
Heinrich Himmler
Charles Albert
42. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Johannes Kepler
Dual Monarchy
John Stuart Mill
Triple Entente
43. 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
Peter the Great
Bradenburg-Prussia
Paracelsus
44. 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.
North German Confederation
Transcendentalists
Kulaks
Black Shirt March
45. 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.
Treaty of London
Third International
Louis XIV
Spanish-American War
46. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
47. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Theodore Herzl
Atlantic Charter
James Watt
Allies
48. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Edward Gibbon
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Marshall plan
49. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Public Health Act
Lusitania
Friedrich Nietzsche
Franz Ferdinand
50. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Reform Bill
Treaty of London
Whigs
Theodore Herzl