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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.
Steel
William and Catherine Booth
Home Rule
Brezhnev Doctrine
2. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Lenin and Trotsky
English Civil War
Allied Powers
North German Confederation
3. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Korean War
John Stuart Mill
Revolution from Above
Berlin Conference
4. (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
Vesalius
Whigs
War of Austrian Succession
Brezhnev Doctrine
5. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Jacobins
Bradenburg-Prussia
White Russians
Absolutism
6. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edmund Burke
Committee of Public Safety
7. 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.
Triple Alliance
Napoleon
Thomas Malthus
Lateran Pact
8. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Franz Ferdinand
Steel
Secularization
Stalingrad
9. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Jean Paul Marat
ancien regime
Emmeline Prankhurst
Georges Jacques Danton
10. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Gottfried Leibniz
Brezhnev Doctrine
Austria-Hungary
11. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Brezhnev Doctrine
Potsdam
Adolf Eichmann
12. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Concert of Europe
Blaise Pascal
Battle of the Somme
Napoleon
13. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Vladimir Lenin
Robert Koch
French Revolution of 1848
Revisionists
14. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Vladimir Lenin
Red Russians
War of Austrian Succession
15. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Revolution from Above
Benjamin Disraeli
Transcendentalists
16. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Triple Entente
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Black Shirt March
Factory Act
17. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Tories
Revolution from Above
vanguard
Lusitania
18. 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.
Petition of Rights
Allies
Adolf Eichmann
Sir Francis Bacon
19. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Benito Mussolini
'Turnip' Townsend
Adam Smith
John Stuart Mill
20. 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
Eastern Question
Stalingrad
'Turnip' Townsend
21. 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.'
Battle of the Somme
The Glorious Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft
Marshall plan
22. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Treaty of Paris
Crimean War
Berlin Conference
23. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Steel
Mary Wollstonecraft
Marshall plan
24. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Charles Albert
Triple Entente
Bishop Bossuet
25. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Fabian Society
Count Cavour
War of Austrian Succession
Louis XIV
26. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
White Russians
Seven Weeks' War
ancien regime
27. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Legislative Assembly
Labour Party
Marshall plan
Stalingrad
28. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Leipzig
Quadruple Alliance
Congress of Vienna
29. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Mary Wollstonecraft
James Watt
Concert of Europe
Kronstadt
30. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Daimler and Benz
Soviet-Afghan War
Vladimir Lenin
31. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Heinrich Himmler
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Allies
32. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Triple Entente
Fascist Party
Emmanuel Sieyes
Nazi
33. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
ultraroyalists
Revisionists
Social Democratic Party
Thomas Malthus
34. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Johannes Kepler
Reform Bill
Soviet-Afghan War
Heinrich Himmler
35. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Herbert Spencer
Public Health Act
Reform Bill
Congress of Vienna
36. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Edict of Nantes
Isaac Newton
Jean Paul Marat
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
37. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
War of Austrian Succession
fire at the Reichstag
First and Second International
38. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
William Gladstone
Emelyn Pugachev
Seven Year's War
39. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Joseph II
Transcendentalists
Quadruple Alliance
40. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Bishop Bossuet
ancien regime
Ferdinand VII
Andrew Carnegie
41. 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.
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
William Gladstone
Steel
42. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Revisionists
Crimean War
ancien regime
Lusitania
43. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Ptolemy
Edict of Nantes
Dutch Republic
44. 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
Gottfried Leibniz
Emmeline Prankhurst
Secularization
Dutch Republic
45. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Treaty of London
Lusitania
ancien regime
Heinrich Himmler
46. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Kronstadt
Robert Koch
Edward Gibbon
Directory
47. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
John Locke
Revolution from Above
Spanish-American War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
48. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Allied Powers
Revolution from Above
Vichy Regime
49. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Emmeline Prankhurst
ancien regime
Third International
50. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
British East India Company
Russo-Japanese War
Revolution from Above
Peter the Great