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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Dutch Republic
Oliver Cromwell
John Stuart Mill
The Glorious Revolution
2. 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
Labour Party
Brezhnev Doctrine
Joseph II
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
3. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Social Democratic Party
New Economic Policy
English Civil War
Concert of Europe
4. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Social Democratic Party
Napoleon
5. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Free French
Gottfried Leibniz
Reform Bill
Napoleon
6. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Napoleon
Reform Bill
Emelyn Pugachev
7. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Edmund Burke
Volksgeist
Lenin and Trotsky
Rene Descartes
8. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Tories
James Watt
Petition of Rights
New Economic Policy
9. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Paris Commune
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Treaty of London
10. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
British East India Company
Committee of Public Safety
Daimler and Benz
Emelyn Pugachev
11. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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12. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
War of Austrian Succession
Sergei Witte
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
13. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Treaty of London
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Daimler and Benz
14. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Vichy Regime
Treaty of London
Congress of Vienna
vanguard
15. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Triple Alliance
The Glorious Revolution
Volksgeist
Thirty Years' War
16. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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17. 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
Edward Gibbon
Dutch Republic
Treaty of London
Thermidorian Reaction
18. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Jean Paul Marat
Allies
soviets
North German Confederation
19. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Paracelsus
Treaty of Paris
Panther
20. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Kronstadt
Heinrich Himmler
Petition of Rights
21. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
X-Ray
Andrew Carnegie
Triple Alliance
vanguard
22. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Girondins
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Lusitania
vanguard
23. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Girondins
Ferdinand VII
Napoleon
24. A military draft
The Glorious Revolution
conscription
Absolutism
Edmund Burke
25. 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.
Transcendentalists
Galileo Galilei
Emelyn Pugachev
North German Confederation
26. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Assembly of Notables
Edinburgh
Enclosure movement
Battle of the Somme
27. 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.
Leipzig
Jean Paul Marat
Benjamin Disraeli
Franco-Prussian War
28. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Thermidorian Reaction
English Civil War
Enclosure movement
Stalingrad
29. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
John F. Kennedy
Paris Commune
War of Austrian Succession
Battle of the Somme
30. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Russo-Japanese War
Secularization
X-Ray
Fabian Society
31. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Charles Montesquieu
Concert of Europe
Legislative Assembly
Dulce et Decorum Est
32. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Cecil Rhodes.
Crimean War
Legislative Assembly
33. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Russian Revolution
Sir Francis Bacon
Spanish-American War
Factory Act
34. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Treaty of London
Jacobins
John F. Kennedy
35. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
Home Rule
Girondins
Frederick the Great
36. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Russian Revolution
Secularization
Tories
37. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Adolf Eichmann
Dual Monarchy
Soviet-Afghan War
ultraroyalists
38. 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.
Kronstadt
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Petition of Rights
Louis XIV
39. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Daimler and Benz
Secularization
'Turnip' Townsend
40. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Directory
Easter Rising
Thermidor
Spanish-American War
41. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
conscription
Blaise Pascal
Central Powers.
42. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Denis Diderot
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
New Economic Policy
43. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Paris Commune
Seven Year's War
Korean War
Oliver Cromwell
44. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Factory Act
Enigma
British East India Company
45. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Glorious Revolution
Galileo Galilei
Sir Francis Bacon
46. 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
Seven Weeks' War
John Locke
Kronstadt
Holy Alliance
47. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Warsaw Pact
Allies
Spanish-American War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
48. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Treaty of Tilsit
Spanish-American War
Warsaw Pact
Legislative Assembly
49. 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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jean Paul Marat
Petition of Rights
John Locke
50. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
North German Confederation
Fascist Party
English Civil War
Labour Party