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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Stalingrad
Herbert Spencer
Nikita Khrushchev
Isaac Newton
2. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Johannes Kepler
Denis Diderot
Joseph Stalin
New Economic Policy
3. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Korean War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
X-Ray
4. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Girondins
Ptolemy
Third International
5. 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
Eastern Question
Dutch Republic
Thomas Malthus
vanguard
6. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
John Rockefeller
Social Democratic Party
Paris Commune
7. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Ptolemy
Edinburgh
British East India Company
Atlantic Charter
8. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Kulaks
conscription
Vladimir Lenin
9. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Triple Alliance
Berlin Conference
Third International
Axis Powers
10. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Daimler and Benz
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Berlin Conference
11. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Axis Powers
Continental System
Thomas Malthus
12. 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.
Treaty of London
Enigma
Congress of Vienna
Bradenburg-Prussia
13. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Peter the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of Adowa
White Russians
14. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Revisionists
Crimean War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Emmanuel Sieyes
15. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Labour Party
Seven Year's War
Treaty of London
16. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Thirty Years' War
Social Democratic Party
Battle of the Somme
Secularization
17. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
vanguard
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Treaty of London
Russo-Japanese War
18. A Jewish British prime minister.
Enigma
Francois Voltaire
Stalingrad
Benjamin Disraeli
19. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Ptolemy
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Revisionists
Vichy Regime
20. 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.
Fabian Society
Dual Monarchy
John Locke
Fascist Party
21. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Berlin Conference
Kronstadt
Charles X
Emmeline Prankhurst
22. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Frederick the Great
Revolution from Above
Eastern Question
23. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Jean Paul Marat
Whigs
Home Rule
24. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Soviet-Afghan War
Treaty of Tilsit
Secularization
Utilitarianism
25. 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.
Free French
Nazi
Robert Koch
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
26. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Labour Party
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thermidor
The War of Jenkin's Ear
27. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Benjamin Disraeli
Declaration of Pillnitz
The Glorious Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
28. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Concert of Europe
Franco-Prussian War
Declaration of Pillnitz
29. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Triple Alliance
Labour Party
English Civil War
Ottoman empire dissolved
30. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Home Rule
Copernicus
Russian Revolution
31. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Axis Powers
Vladimir Lenin
Jacobins
Robert Koch
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
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Denis Diderot
Copernicus
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
33. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Panther
Transcendentalists
Copernicus
34. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Jean Paul Marat
Vichy Regime
Triple Entente
Galileo Galilei
35. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Russo-Japanese War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Louis Philippe I
36. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Dutch Republic
Peter the Great
William and Catherine Booth
37. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Allies
Vladimir Lenin
Kulaks
38. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Russo-Japanese War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Malthus
Nikita Khrushchev
39. 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.
Napoleon
Fabian Society
Dual Monarchy
Vesalius
40. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Cecil Rhodes.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Potsdam
Andrew Carnegie
41. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Russo-Japanese War
Denis Diderot
Giuseppe Mazzini
Paris Commune
42. 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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43. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Rene Descartes
Eastern Question
Continental System
44. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Marie Curie
Third International
Absolutism
Zimmerman telegram
45. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Peter the Great
Bradenburg-Prussia
Ottoman empire dissolved
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
46. 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.
Labour Party
Peter the Great
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Louis Philippe I
47. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Sir Francis Bacon
Nikita Khrushchev
Ptolemy
Edmund Burke
48. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Oliver Cromwell
Tories
Enigma
49. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Directory
Edinburgh
Denis Diderot
Ferdinand VII
50. 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.
Tories
Lateran Pact
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Public Health Act
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