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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.'
Warsaw Pact
Committee of Public Safety
William Gladstone
Bishop Bossuet
2. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
John Locke
vanguard
Atlantic Charter
Central Powers.
3. 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
Napoleon
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Spanish-American War
Joseph Stalin
4. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Friedrich Nietzsche
Potsdam
Sir Francis Bacon
5. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Petition of Rights
Declaration of Pillnitz
Charles Albert
Vesalius
6. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Jacobins
North German Confederation
X-Ray
James Watt
7. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Joseph II
Eastern Question
Final Solution
8. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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9. 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.
Boer War
Declaration of Pillnitz
French Revolution of 1848
North German Confederation
10. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Charles Albert
Boer War
Nikita Khrushchev
Russo-Japanese War
11. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
The Glorious Revolution
Paris Commune
Sir Francis Bacon
Battle of the Somme
12. 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)
Francois Voltaire
Benito Mussolini
Rene Descartes
Galileo Galilei
13. 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.
Volksgeist
Assembly of Notables
Revolution from Above
William Gladstone
14. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Treaty of Frankfurt
Berlin Conference
Dutch Republic
15. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Friedrich Nietzsche
Crimean War
French Revolution of 1848
16. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Benjamin Disraeli
Ottoman empire dissolved
Sergei Witte
Declaration of Pillnitz
17. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Factory Act
Friedrich Nietzsche
Austria-Hungary
William Gladstone
18. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Francois Voltaire
Herbert Spencer
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edward Gibbon
19. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fascist Party
Legislative Assembly
Denis Diderot
20. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Ptolemy
Treaty of London
Herbert Spencer
Final Solution
21. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Galileo Galilei
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Congress of Vienna
22. 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.
John Stuart Mill
Paris Commune
Final Solution
Louis Philippe I
23. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Johannes Kepler
Edict of Nantes
Russo-Japanese War
Catherine the Great
24. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
'Turnip' Townsend
Fascist Party
Revisionists
Potsdam
25. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
soviets
Quadruple Alliance
Spanish Civil War
War of Austrian Succession
26. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Zimmerman telegram
Emmeline Prankhurst
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
27. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Assembly of Notables
Giuseppe Mazzini
Home Rule
Enclosure movement
28. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Leipzig
Thermidorian Reaction
Emmanuel Sieyes
Paracelsus
29. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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30. 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
Cecil Rhodes.
Zimmerman telegram
Edmund Burke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Vladimir Lenin
'Turnip' Townsend
Leipzig
Oliver Cromwell
32. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Enigma
Bishop Bossuet
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Charles Montesquieu
33. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Transcendentalists
Declaration of Pillnitz
Vichy Regime
34. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Edward Gibbon
ultraroyalists
Dulce et Decorum Est
Adolf Eichmann
35. 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.
Leipzig
Galileo Galilei
War of Austrian Succession
Secularization
36. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Heinrich Himmler
English Civil War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Berlin Conference
37. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Reform Bill
North German Confederation
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
38. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Directory
Spanish Civil War
Thirty Years' War
Black Shirt March
39. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Adolf Eichmann
Zimmerman telegram
Enigma
Eastern Question
40. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Thirty Years' War
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph II
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.
Eastern Question
Nikita Khrushchev
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Benjamin Disraeli
42. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Kronstadt
soviets
Treaty of Tilsit
Treaty of Paris
43. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Oliver Cromwell
Paracelsus
White Russians
Revisionists
44. Britain and America
Treaty of London
Jacobins
North German Confederation
Allied Powers
45. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Enclosure movement
Russo-Japanese War
John Stuart Mill
Steel
46. A military draft
English Civil War
Cecil Rhodes.
conscription
Battle of the Somme
47. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
British East India Company
Directory
Georges Jacques Danton
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
48. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Johannes Kepler
Boer War
Quadruple Alliance
49. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Sir Francis Bacon
Labour Party
Thirty Years' War
Warsaw Pact
50. 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.
Social Democratic Party
fire at the Reichstag
Catherine the Great
Ferdinand VII
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