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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.






2. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.






3. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.






4. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.






5. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.






6. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.






7. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.






8. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.






9. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.






10. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.






11. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.






12. Britain and America






13. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.






14. 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






15. A Jewish British prime minister.






16. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.






17. 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






18. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.






19. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.






20. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.






21. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.






22. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.






23. (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






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






25. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.






26. A military draft






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






30. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.






31. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.






32. 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.






33. 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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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).






35. Important ZIONIST.






36. Founded the Salvation Army






37. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.






38. 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






39. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.






40. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament






41. 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.






42. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.






43. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.






44. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.






45. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME






46. 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.






47. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.






48. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.






49. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.






50. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.