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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Continental System
Dulce et Decorum Est
Austria-Hungary
British East India Company
2. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Black Shirt March
Seven Weeks' War
Thermidor
Lateran Pact
3. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Edinburgh
Central Powers.
conscription
Triple Entente
4. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Spanish-American War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Transcendentalists
Nazi
5. 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
Sergei Witte
Treaty of Paris
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Thermidorian Reaction
6. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Charles X
Legislative Assembly
Franz Ferdinand
Lusitania
7. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Stalingrad
Lenin and Trotsky
John Locke
Emelyn Pugachev
8. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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9. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Dutch Republic
John Locke
Blaise Pascal
Warsaw Pact
10. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Edinburgh
Robert Koch
Giuseppe Mazzini
Volksgeist
11. 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)
Paracelsus
Utilitarianism
Austria-Hungary
Benito Mussolini
12. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Catherine the Great
Edinburgh
Utilitarianism
John Rockefeller
13. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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14. 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.
William and Catherine Booth
vanguard
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Cecil Rhodes.
15. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Francois Voltaire
Dutch Republic
Jacobins
Home Rule
16. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Thomas Malthus
Georges Jacques Danton
Friedrich Nietzsche
Battle of Adowa
17. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Crimean War
Charles X
Quadruple Alliance
Emmanuel Sieyes
18. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Battle of the Bulge
Boer War
Vesalius
19. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
ultraroyalists
Concert of Europe
Black Shirt March
Legislative Assembly
20. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
White Russians
Cecil Rhodes.
Johannes Kepler
Labour Party
21. 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
Kronstadt
Battle of the Somme
John Locke
Enclosure movement
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.
Kulaks
Louis Philippe I
Blaise Pascal
Vichy Regime
23. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Triple Entente
Austria-Hungary
Adam Smith
Treaty of London
24. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Soviet-Afghan War
Korean War
Third International
25. 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.
Charles X
Congress of Vienna
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
26. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Social Democratic Party
Benjamin Disraeli
Home Rule
27. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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28. 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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29. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Frederick the Great
Sergei Witte
Catherine the Great
Factory Act
30. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Thermidorian Reaction
Assembly of Notables
Austro-Hungarian Empire
31. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Joseph Stalin
ultraroyalists
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph II
32. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Reform Bill
Declaration of Pillnitz
33. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
White Russians
Steel
Chartist Movement
Assembly of Notables
34. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Edinburgh
Lateran Pact
Seven Weeks' War
35. 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
Berlin Conference
White Russians
Atlantic Charter
36. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Vladimir Lenin
Thermidorian Reaction
Fabian Society
Utilitarianism
37. 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.
Crimean War
Spanish Civil War
Edinburgh
Lusitania
38. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Reform Bill
Legislative Assembly
Revolution from Above
Emmanuel Sieyes
39. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
'Turnip' Townsend
Enclosure movement
Mary Wollstonecraft
40. 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.
Joseph Stalin
Directory
Tories
The War of Jenkin's Ear
41. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Battle of the Bulge
Treaty of London
Ferdinand VII
Korean War
42. 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).
Peter the Great
Georges Jacques Danton
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quadruple Alliance
43. 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.
Charles X
Committee of Public Safety
Robert Koch
North German Confederation
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
Panther
Soviet-Afghan War
Austria-Hungary
Francois Voltaire
45. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Potsdam
Absolutism
North German Confederation
Public Health Act
46. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Bulge
Concert of Europe
Ferdinand VII
47. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Adolf Eichmann
John F. Kennedy
Kulaks
British East India Company
48. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Edmund Burke
Directory
Andrew Carnegie
Chartist Movement
49. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Theodore Herzl
Triple Entente
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Battle of the Somme
50. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Treaty of London
Stalingrad
Berlin Conference
Bradenburg-Prussia