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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Austria-Hungary
Brezhnev Doctrine
Kronstadt
First and Second International
2. Germany - Italy - and Japan
vanguard
Red Russians
Axis Powers
Factory Act
3. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Dutch Republic
Leipzig
X-Ray
Easter Rising
4. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Johannes Kepler
Vichy Regime
Social Democratic Party
5. A Jewish British prime minister.
Volksgeist
Benjamin Disraeli
Paris Commune
Seven Weeks' War
6. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Revolution from Above
John Rockefeller
conscription
Oliver Cromwell
7. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Enigma
Triple Alliance
Austria-Hungary
Fabian Society
8. (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
Seven Weeks' War
War of Austrian Succession
Sir Francis Bacon
ultraroyalists
9. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Atlantic Charter
Revolution from Above
Home Rule
Girondins
10. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Paracelsus
Assembly of Notables
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Kronstadt
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
Emmeline Prankhurst
Vladimir Lenin
Charles X
Francois Voltaire
12. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Dual Monarchy
Potsdam
Herbert Spencer
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
13. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Dual Monarchy
First and Second International
Quadruple Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
14. 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.
Stalingrad
Treaty of Tilsit
Seven Year's War
Friedrich Nietzsche
15. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Fabian Society
Declaration of Pillnitz
Francois Voltaire
Boer War
16. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Holy Alliance
Battle of Adowa
Treaty of London
Mary Wollstonecraft
17. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Petition of Rights
Nikita Khrushchev
Vesalius
18. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Eastern Question
Austro-Piedmontese War
Ferdinand VII
Stalingrad
19. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Joseph Stalin
Holy Alliance
Edict of Nantes
20. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
fire at the Reichstag
Panther
Secularization
Steel
21. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Concert of Europe
Thirty Years' War
Joseph II
Austria-Hungary
22. 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.
Korean War
Potsdam
Girondins
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
23. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Isaac Newton
Vichy Regime
Edmund Burke
24. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
vanguard
Eastern Question
Galileo Galilei
25. 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-Baptiste Colbert
Bishop Bossuet
Central Powers.
Boer War
26. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Crimean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
John Rockefeller
Secularization
27. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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28. 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
Potsdam
Brezhnev Doctrine
Nikita Khrushchev
Leipzig
29. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Treaty of Paris
Holy Alliance
Soviet-Afghan War
Black Shirt March
30. 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.
Edmund Burke
Ptolemy
Lateran Pact
Boer War
31. Extermination of the Jews.
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Tilsit
Final Solution
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
32. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Dutch Republic
Battle of Adowa
Vesalius
33. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
'Turnip' Townsend
Robert Koch
Sergei Witte
Marshall plan
34. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Directory
conscription
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Russian Revolution
35. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Franz Ferdinand
Mary Wollstonecraft
Absolutism
36. 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.
ancien regime
Holy Alliance
Zimmerman telegram
Seven Weeks' War
37. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Triple Alliance
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Whigs
38. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Benito Mussolini
Treaty of Frankfurt
Utilitarianism
39. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Allies
Edict of Nantes
Edward Gibbon
40. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Dual Monarchy
Stalingrad
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Dulce et Decorum Est
41. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Joseph Stalin
Russian Revolution
Utilitarianism
Treaty of Frankfurt
42. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Allies
New Economic Policy
Kaiser Wilhelm I
43. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Blaise Pascal
Herbert Spencer
Rene Descartes
Bishop Bossuet
44. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Emmanuel Sieyes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Atlantic Charter
45. 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.
Lateran Pact
vanguard
Treaty of Tilsit
Crimean War
46. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Korean War
Final Solution
Fascist Party
47. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Georges Jacques Danton
Enigma
Emmanuel Sieyes
48. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Seven Year's War
Atlantic Charter
Andrew Carnegie
49. 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
Greek Revolution
French Revolution of 1848
vanguard
50. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Utilitarianism
Ptolemy
Louis XIV
Adolf Eichmann