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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Battle of Adowa
ultraroyalists
Zimmerman telegram
Enclosure movement
2. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Continental System
Absolutism
Holy Alliance
Directory
3. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Zimmerman telegram
Charles Albert
Chartist Movement
4. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Napoleon
Nazi
Stalingrad
vanguard
5. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
ancien regime
Quadruple Alliance
Bishop Bossuet
New Economic Policy
6. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Louis XIV
Edinburgh
Spanish-American War
Jacobins
7. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
vanguard
fire at the Reichstag
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Treaty of Paris
Peter the Great
9. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Franco-Prussian War
French Revolution of 1848
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Social Democratic Party
10. 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).
Austria-Hungary
Sir Francis Bacon
Georges Jacques Danton
Congress of Vienna
11. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Ptolemy
Declaration of Pillnitz
fire at the Reichstag
Labour Party
12. 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
Charles Montesquieu
Franz Ferdinand
William Gladstone
13. 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.
Marie Curie
Battle of the Bulge
Ferdinand VII
Tories
14. A military draft
Spanish Civil War
Edict of Nantes
Treaty of Paris
conscription
15. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Assembly of Notables
Charles X
Copernicus
John Rockefeller
16. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Treaty of Paris
Reform Bill
Edward Gibbon
Joseph II
17. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Panther
Joseph II
Gottfried Leibniz
Nikita Khrushchev
18. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Oliver Cromwell
Triple Entente
Treaty of Tilsit
19. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Austria-Hungary
White Russians
Legislative Assembly
20. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Crimean War
Joseph Stalin
Count Cavour
21. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Kulaks
Congress of Vienna
Paris Commune
22. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Kulaks
Marie Curie
White Russians
Fabian Society
23. (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
Marie Curie
War of Austrian Succession
English Civil War
Leipzig
24. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Girondins
Mary Wollstonecraft
Andrew Carnegie
25. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Sergei Witte
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Adam Smith
26. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Nazi
Franz Ferdinand
Triple Entente
27. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Bishop Bossuet
Cecil Rhodes.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Marie Curie
28. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Peter the Great
Charles Montesquieu
Bishop Bossuet
29. 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
English Civil War
Franz Ferdinand
soviets
Final Solution
30. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Joseph Stalin
Herbert Spencer
Triple Entente
Paris Commune
31. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Enigma
Herbert Spencer
Chartist Movement
Nazi
32. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
'Turnip' Townsend
Emelyn Pugachev
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
33. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Tories
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Bishop Bossuet
34. 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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35. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
British East India Company
Emmeline Prankhurst
Final Solution
Paracelsus
36. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Joseph Stalin
Gottfried Leibniz
Russo-Japanese War
ultraroyalists
37. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
North German Confederation
Emmeline Prankhurst
Secularization
38. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Leipzig
Brezhnev Doctrine
Austro-Piedmontese War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
39. 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
Emmeline Prankhurst
Friedrich Nietzsche
Spanish Civil War
Adolf Eichmann
40. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Edmund Burke
Johannes Kepler
Enclosure movement
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
soviets
Catherine the Great
New Economic Policy
42. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Georges Jacques Danton
Third International
Jean Paul Marat
43. Soviet counterpart to NATO
James Watt
Charles X
Warsaw Pact
Catherine the Great
44. Founded the Salvation Army
War of Austrian Succession
William and Catherine Booth
Catherine the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
45. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Fabian Society
Vichy Regime
Robert Koch
Johannes Kepler
46. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Jean Paul Marat
Stalingrad
Steel
Continental System
47. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Galileo Galilei
Adam Smith
48. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Factory Act
Ottoman empire dissolved
ancien regime
Enigma
49. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Fabian Society
vanguard
Triple Entente
50. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Johannes Kepler
White Russians
Vladimir Lenin
Reform Bill
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