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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Soviet counterpart to NATO
French Revolution of 1848
Warsaw Pact
Central Powers.
Soviet-Afghan War
2. A Jewish British prime minister.
John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Disraeli
Russo-Japanese War
Edmund Burke
3. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Gottfried Leibniz
Paris Commune
Black Shirt March
Edict of Nantes
4. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
fire at the Reichstag
Concert of Europe
Marshall plan
5. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Leipzig
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Charles Montesquieu
Eastern Question
6. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Battle of Adowa
John Locke
Emmeline Prankhurst
Third International
7. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Battle of Adowa
John Stuart Mill
Soviet-Afghan War
8. 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
Count Cavour
Directory
Isaac Newton
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
9. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Treaty of Frankfurt
Giuseppe Mazzini
fire at the Reichstag
10. 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.
Directory
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Battle of Adowa
Public Health Act
11. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Crimean War
Marie Curie
Sir Francis Bacon
Quadruple Alliance
12. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Paris Commune
Charles Albert
Catherine the Great
13. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Peter the Great
Kronstadt
Battle of the Somme
14. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Daimler and Benz
Atlantic Charter
Thomas Malthus
The Glorious Revolution
15. 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.
X-Ray
ultraroyalists
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
16. 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.
Chartist Movement
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Volksgeist
Joseph II
17. 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
18. 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.
Potsdam
Crimean War
ultraroyalists
Louis Philippe I
19. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Triple Entente
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Francois Voltaire
20. Britain and America
Panther
Peter the Great
Declaration of Pillnitz
Allied Powers
21. (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
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman empire dissolved
William Gladstone
War of Austrian Succession
22. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Blaise Pascal
First and Second International
Final Solution
23. Discovered radium.
Ottoman empire dissolved
William Gladstone
Congress of Vienna
Marie Curie
24. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Austro-Piedmontese War
Edward Gibbon
New Economic Policy
25. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Vichy Regime
War of Austrian Succession
Spanish-American War
Sir Francis Bacon
26. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Jean Paul Marat
Herbert Spencer
William and Catherine Booth
Frederick the Great
27. 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
Allies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ptolemy
Kronstadt
28. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Thermidor
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
John Rockefeller
Franz Ferdinand
29. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
French Revolution of 1848
Edict of Nantes
Bradenburg-Prussia
30. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm I
John Locke
Sir Francis Bacon
Eastern Question
31. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Peter the Great
Holy Alliance
Soviet-Afghan War
32. 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)
Sir Francis Bacon
Vladimir Lenin
Benito Mussolini
Seven Weeks' War
33. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Warsaw Pact
Paracelsus
34. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Boer War
Battle of the Bulge
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Thermidorian Reaction
35. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Vladimir Lenin
Steel
Gottfried Leibniz
36. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Robert Koch
Steel
soviets
Joseph II
37. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Steel
Home Rule
Franz Ferdinand
Greek Revolution
38. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Paracelsus
Ptolemy
Enigma
Red Russians
39. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Marshall plan
Triple Alliance
Galileo Galilei
40. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Jean Paul Marat
Catherine the Great
Triple Alliance
War of Austrian Succession
41. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Assembly of Notables
Theodore Herzl
James Watt
Free French
42. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Rene Descartes
Charles Montesquieu
Thomas Malthus
Ottoman empire dissolved
43. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Free French
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Allies
X-Ray
44. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Sergei Witte
Friedrich Nietzsche
Francois Voltaire
45. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Greek Revolution
Robert Koch
Assembly of Notables
Stalingrad
46. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Leipzig
Declaration of Pillnitz
Cecil Rhodes.
47. 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
Russian Revolution
Treaty of Frankfurt
Sergei Witte
48. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Theodore Herzl
Vladimir Lenin
Free French
Heinrich Himmler
49. 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
Vesalius
Edinburgh
Zimmerman telegram
Battle of Adowa
50. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Louis XIV
English Civil War
Charles X