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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Francois Voltaire
Steel
Revolution from Above
War of Austrian Succession
2. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Utilitarianism
Copernicus
Korean War
Marshall plan
3. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Peter the Great
Zimmerman telegram
Edinburgh
Central Powers.
4. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Social Democratic Party
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Dutch Republic
5. 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
Georges Jacques Danton
Napoleon
Denis Diderot
Potsdam
6. 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.
Tories
North German Confederation
Vichy Regime
Volksgeist
7. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Atlantic Charter
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Piedmontese War
Concert of Europe
8. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Austro-Piedmontese War
North German Confederation
White Russians
Fabian Society
9. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Absolutism
Vladimir Lenin
Fabian Society
Emelyn Pugachev
10. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Allies
Edward Gibbon
Public Health Act
soviets
11. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Somme
Quadruple Alliance
Whigs
12. 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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Social Democratic Party
Free French
North German Confederation
13. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Jacobins
Public Health Act
Vichy Regime
14. 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.
Enigma
William Gladstone
Petition of Rights
John Stuart Mill
15. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
British East India Company
Eastern Question
Triple Alliance
16. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Adolf Eichmann
Friedrich Nietzsche
Triple Entente
Legislative Assembly
17. Germany - Italy - and Japan
North German Confederation
Kronstadt
Axis Powers
Warsaw Pact
18. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Black Shirt March
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles Montesquieu
Mary Wollstonecraft
19. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Francois Voltaire
Gottfried Leibniz
Utilitarianism
James Watt
20. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
John Locke
Giuseppe Mazzini
Congress of Vienna
Declaration of Pillnitz
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
Edinburgh
Denis Diderot
Zimmerman telegram
Mary Wollstonecraft
22. 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
Easter Rising
English Civil War
Francois Voltaire
23. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Thirty Years' War
Congress of Vienna
Holy Alliance
Sir Francis Bacon
24. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Galileo Galilei
Free French
John F. Kennedy
Russian Revolution
25. 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.'
Bishop Bossuet
Emmeline Prankhurst
Lateran Pact
Enigma
26. 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.
Free French
Congress of Vienna
Catherine the Great
Emmeline Prankhurst
27. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Dual Monarchy
Soviet-Afghan War
Edinburgh
Bradenburg-Prussia
28. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
White Russians
Isaac Newton
Adolf Eichmann
29. 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.
Adam Smith
Daimler and Benz
ancien regime
Public Health Act
30. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Steel
Vesalius
soviets
Factory Act
31. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Triple Entente
Continental System
Revolution from Above
Potsdam
32. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
ancien regime
Copernicus
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lusitania
33. (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
Treaty of Tilsit
War of Austrian Succession
Allied Powers
Paris Commune
34. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Paris Commune
Marshall plan
Thermidor
Soviet-Afghan War
35. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Allies
Thirty Years' War
First and Second International
36. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Thomas Malthus
Greek Revolution
'Turnip' Townsend
John Rockefeller
37. 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
Dutch Republic
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Atlantic Charter
John Stuart Mill
38. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Russian Revolution
Thirty Years' War
Adam Smith
39. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Triple Entente
Brezhnev Doctrine
Edward Gibbon
Transcendentalists
40. Founded the Salvation Army
Declaration of Pillnitz
William and Catherine Booth
Free French
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
41. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revisionists
Revolution from Above
Potsdam
Thermidorian Reaction
42. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Congress of Vienna
John Stuart Mill
Sergei Witte
Kulaks
43. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Panther
Easter Rising
Greek Revolution
Volksgeist
44. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Adolf Eichmann
Lusitania
Lenin and Trotsky
Kaiser Wilhelm I
45. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
John Stuart Mill
Chartist Movement
British East India Company
46. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Marshall plan
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
North German Confederation
Copernicus
47. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Absolutism
Reform Bill
Nikita Khrushchev
Enclosure movement
48. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Chartist Movement
Revisionists
Catherine the Great
49. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
William and Catherine Booth
Frederick the Great
Charles X
50. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Denis Diderot
Seven Year's War
Treaty of London
Herbert Spencer