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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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)
Edward Gibbon
Bishop Bossuet
Nazi
Benito Mussolini
2. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Dutch Republic
Triple Alliance
Kulaks
3. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Copernicus
William and Catherine Booth
Atlantic Charter
4. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Home Rule
Boer War
Sir Francis Bacon
New Economic Policy
5. 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.
Korean War
Holy Alliance
Brezhnev Doctrine
Quadruple Alliance
6. 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.
'Turnip' Townsend
Thirty Years' War
Panther
Joseph Stalin
7. 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.
John Rockefeller
Gottfried Leibniz
Third International
ancien regime
8. 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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Treaty of Paris
Tories
Paracelsus
9. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Herbert Spencer
Francois Voltaire
Adolf Eichmann
Fabian Society
10. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Lusitania
'Turnip' Townsend
Home Rule
11. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
fire at the Reichstag
Robert Koch
Emmeline Prankhurst
12. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Triple Entente
Berlin Conference
Dulce et Decorum Est
13. A military draft
conscription
Peter the Great
Daimler and Benz
Denis Diderot
14. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
ancien regime
Quadruple Alliance
Absolutism
Triple Entente
15. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Johannes Kepler
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Committee of Public Safety
16. 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.
Leipzig
Paris Commune
French Revolution of 1848
Potsdam
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
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18. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Jacobins
Holy Alliance
English Civil War
19. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Home Rule
Panther
Allies
20. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Triple Entente
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Edmund Burke
Panther
21. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Leipzig
Factory Act
Continental System
22. 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.
Holy Alliance
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of Tilsit
Stalingrad
23. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Paracelsus
Fascist Party
Congress of Vienna
Enigma
24. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Bishop Bossuet
Catherine the Great
Enclosure movement
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
25. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Paracelsus
Stalingrad
Secularization
Volksgeist
26. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
ancien regime
Volksgeist
First and Second International
Austro-Piedmontese War
27. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Andrew Carnegie
Johannes Kepler
Gottfried Leibniz
Adolf Eichmann
28. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Holy Alliance
Allied Powers
John Rockefeller
Revolution from Above
29. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Eastern Question
Thermidor
Triple Alliance
30. 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
Stalingrad
Emmeline Prankhurst
Jean Paul Marat
Franz Ferdinand
31. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Marshall plan
Emelyn Pugachev
Holy Alliance
Nazi
32. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Vesalius
Seven Weeks' War
Russian Revolution
33. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Enigma
Crimean War
Public Health Act
34. 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.
Russian Revolution
North German Confederation
Giuseppe Mazzini
Directory
35. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Vichy Regime
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Ottoman empire dissolved
Dual Monarchy
36. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Ferdinand VII
Seven Year's War
Catherine the Great
First and Second International
37. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Allied Powers
Volksgeist
Adam Smith
Dulce et Decorum Est
38. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Nikita Khrushchev
First and Second International
Ptolemy
Edward Gibbon
39. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
'Turnip' Townsend
Blaise Pascal
Jacobins
Spanish-American War
40. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Robert Koch
Assembly of Notables
Petition of Rights
41. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Third International
Fascist Party
Oliver Cromwell
42. A Jewish British prime minister.
X-Ray
Leipzig
Edict of Nantes
Benjamin Disraeli
43. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Russo-Japanese War
Paracelsus
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Malthus
44. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Joseph Stalin
English Civil War
Directory
Franco-Prussian War
45. 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.'
Declaration of Pillnitz
Mary Wollstonecraft
'Turnip' Townsend
Triple Alliance
46. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
French Revolution of 1848
Social Democratic Party
Vichy Regime
Battle of the Bulge
47. 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.
Stalingrad
Tories
Girondins
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
48. 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.
Central Powers.
Vichy Regime
ultraroyalists
Reform Bill
49. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Continental System
Boer War
Ferdinand VII
Battle of the Bulge
50. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Holy Alliance
Giuseppe Mazzini
Georges Jacques Danton