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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.






2. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.






3. Invented CROP ROTATION.

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4. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME






5. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.






6. Britain and America






7. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.






8. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.






9. 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.






10. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.






11. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.






12. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.






13. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.






14. 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)






15. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.






19. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.






20. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.






21. 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.






22. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.






23. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed






24. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.






25. 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.






26. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.






27. 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






28. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.






29. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.






30. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.






31. 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.






32. Germany - Italy - and Japan






33. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.






34. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.






35. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.






36. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.






37. 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.'






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






39. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.






40. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.






41. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.






42. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender






43. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.






44. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)






45. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'






46. 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.






47. 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






48. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.






49. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)






50. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.