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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
Copernicus
Austro-Piedmontese War
ultraroyalists
Brezhnev Doctrine
2. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Third International
Marie Curie
Herbert Spencer
Copernicus
3. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
The Glorious Revolution
North German Confederation
Allies
4. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Congress of Vienna
Triple Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
Girondins
5. 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.
Directory
Legislative Assembly
Adolf Eichmann
Georges Jacques Danton
6. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Paracelsus
Panther
7. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Catherine the Great
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Peter the Great
8. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Whigs
Revisionists
Enigma
Zimmerman telegram
9. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Assembly of Notables
Utilitarianism
Catherine the Great
Edward Gibbon
10. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Crimean War
Vladimir Lenin
John Stuart Mill
11. 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.
Panther
Triple Entente
vanguard
Treaty of Frankfurt
12. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Boer War
Whigs
Continental System
Benjamin Disraeli
13. 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
John Locke
English Civil War
X-Ray
Axis Powers
14. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Reform Bill
Allies
British East India Company
Revolution from Above
15. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Herbert Spencer
Holy Alliance
Bradenburg-Prussia
16. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
ancien regime
Seven Year's War
Oliver Cromwell
Final Solution
17. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Charles Albert
Oliver Cromwell
The Glorious Revolution
18. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Zimmerman telegram
English Civil War
Declaration of Pillnitz
19. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
fire at the Reichstag
First and Second International
ancien regime
Charles X
20. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Giuseppe Mazzini
British East India Company
Nikita Khrushchev
21. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Tories
Friedrich Nietzsche
Denis Diderot
Axis Powers
22. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Red Russians
Marie Curie
Frederick the Great
Axis Powers
23. 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.
Johannes Kepler
Lenin and Trotsky
Edict of Nantes
Battle of Adowa
24. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Franco-Prussian War
Thermidorian Reaction
Legislative Assembly
25. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Red Russians
Social Democratic Party
Treaty of Paris
Lenin and Trotsky
26. 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).
Charles Albert
Brezhnev Doctrine
Third International
Georges Jacques Danton
27. 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.
Louis Philippe I
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Paris Commune
Assembly of Notables
28. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Legislative Assembly
Sir Francis Bacon
Allied Powers
Thomas Malthus
29. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Soviet-Afghan War
Korean War
30. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Marie Curie
Bradenburg-Prussia
Assembly of Notables
Free French
31. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Kronstadt
Thermidor
Jacobins
Social Democratic Party
32. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
First and Second International
Jean Paul Marat
North German Confederation
33. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Charles Montesquieu
Louis XIV
Charles X
34. Britain and America
Allied Powers
'Turnip' Townsend
Final Solution
Spanish Civil War
35. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Revisionists
Peter the Great
Charles Albert
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
36. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Ferdinand VII
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Atlantic Charter
37. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Factory Act
Axis Powers
Home Rule
Dual Monarchy
38. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Lenin and Trotsky
Nazi
Edict of Nantes
Peter the Great
39. (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
Battle of the Somme
Girondins
Theodore Herzl
War of Austrian Succession
40. 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.
Factory Act
Dulce et Decorum Est
Treaty of London
Treaty of Tilsit
41. 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.
Napoleon
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Daimler and Benz
Assembly of Notables
42. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Enclosure movement
Treaty of Paris
New Economic Policy
43. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Labour Party
Crimean War
fire at the Reichstag
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
44. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Girondins
Charles Albert
Declaration of Pillnitz
Friedrich Nietzsche
45. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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46. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Stalingrad
Secularization
Tories
Marshall plan
47. 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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48. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Blaise Pascal
British East India Company
Lenin and Trotsky
49. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Greek Revolution
Revolution from Above
Charles Montesquieu
Emelyn Pugachev
50. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Public Health Act
Georges Jacques Danton
Johannes Kepler
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