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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Thermidorian Reaction
Lateran Pact
Denis Diderot
Labour Party
2. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Russo-Japanese War
Charles Albert
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Revolution from Above
3. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Joseph II
Treaty of London
Public Health Act
British East India Company
4. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Denis Diderot
Edinburgh
Ottoman empire dissolved
Girondins
5. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Holy Alliance
William and Catherine Booth
Factory Act
6. 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.
William Gladstone
British East India Company
Free French
Dual Monarchy
7. Britain and America
Dutch Republic
Allied Powers
The Glorious Revolution
Peter the Great
8. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
North German Confederation
Spanish Civil War
Greek Revolution
Adolf Eichmann
9. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
War of Austrian Succession
Theodore Herzl
Crimean War
10. 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.
Public Health Act
Louis Philippe I
Enigma
Theodore Herzl
11. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Concert of Europe
Steel
Home Rule
12. 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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13. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Reform Bill
Korean War
Dual Monarchy
Treaty of Tilsit
14. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
'Turnip' Townsend
Crimean War
Marie Curie
15. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
ultraroyalists
Home Rule
Charles Albert
Whigs
16. 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.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Johannes Kepler
Lenin and Trotsky
Louis XIV
17. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Treaty of Paris
Copernicus
Lateran Pact
18. 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
Russo-Japanese War
Potsdam
Assembly of Notables
Giuseppe Mazzini
19. 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-Baptiste Colbert
John Locke
Jean Paul Marat
Eastern Question
20. 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.
Fascist Party
Lateran Pact
Edinburgh
English Civil War
21. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Declaration of Pillnitz
Giueseppe Garibaldi
British East India Company
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.
Bishop Bossuet
Nazi
Joseph Stalin
Crimean War
23. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Treaty of Paris
Free French
Giueseppe Garibaldi
24. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Directory
Final Solution
Whigs
Oliver Cromwell
25. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
The Glorious Revolution
Warsaw Pact
William Gladstone
White Russians
26. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Rene Descartes
Theodore Herzl
Red Russians
Copernicus
27. A military draft
Nikita Khrushchev
Dutch Republic
Nazi
conscription
28. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Axis Powers
Giuseppe Mazzini
Cecil Rhodes.
Eastern Question
29. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Soviet-Afghan War
Greek Revolution
Battle of the Bulge
30. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Franco-Prussian War
Blaise Pascal
Nikita Khrushchev
Black Shirt March
31. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Edict of Nantes
Frederick the Great
Eastern Question
Free French
32. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Charles Albert
Kaiser Wilhelm I
fire at the Reichstag
33. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Battle of Adowa
Fabian Society
Chartist Movement
34. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Austria-Hungary
Final Solution
Nazi
Treaty of Frankfurt
35. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Emmanuel Sieyes
English Civil War
36. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Directory
James Watt
Jean Paul Marat
37. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
Spanish-American War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Volksgeist
38. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Enclosure movement
Adam Smith
Triple Entente
Warsaw Pact
39. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Vichy Regime
White Russians
English Civil War
40. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Social Democratic Party
Home Rule
Transcendentalists
41. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Utilitarianism
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Bulge
Eastern Question
42. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Allied Powers
Social Democratic Party
Chartist Movement
Blaise Pascal
43. 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)
Emmanuel Sieyes
Benito Mussolini
Steel
Axis Powers
44. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Enclosure movement
Paracelsus
Allies
Franz Ferdinand
45. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Lusitania
Thomas Malthus
North German Confederation
46. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Andrew Carnegie
Georges Jacques Danton
Bishop Bossuet
47. Extermination of the Jews.
Seven Weeks' War
Final Solution
Brezhnev Doctrine
The War of Jenkin's Ear
48. 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
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Vichy Regime
Robert Koch
49. 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.'
Nikita Khrushchev
Mary Wollstonecraft
Oliver Cromwell
Paris Commune
50. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Copernicus
Leipzig
Charles X