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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Britain and America
Mary Wollstonecraft
Greek Revolution
Allied Powers
Edinburgh
2. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Petition of Rights
Vladimir Lenin
Dual Monarchy
Quadruple Alliance
3. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Louis XIV
James Watt
Blaise Pascal
4. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Franz Ferdinand
Berlin Conference
Oliver Cromwell
5. 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
Marshall plan
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Enclosure movement
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Quadruple Alliance
Secularization
Count Cavour
John F. Kennedy
7. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
William and Catherine Booth
Congress of Vienna
Nikita Khrushchev
8. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Factory Act
Russo-Japanese War
Vladimir Lenin
9. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Boer War
Vesalius
Soviet-Afghan War
Cecil Rhodes.
10. 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
Catherine the Great
Adam Smith
Holy Alliance
11. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Copernicus
Steel
Black Shirt March
12. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Allied Powers
Nazi
Fabian Society
Crimean War
13. 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
Frederick the Great
Napoleon
Vichy Regime
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
14. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Fascist Party
Edinburgh
Franco-Prussian War
Congress of Vienna
15. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Concert of Europe
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Herbert Spencer
Kulaks
16. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Dutch Republic
Home Rule
Nikita Khrushchev
Easter Rising
17. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Committee of Public Safety
Robert Koch
Absolutism
18. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Dutch Republic
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vesalius
Spanish-American War
19. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Benjamin Disraeli
Emmanuel Sieyes
Emmeline Prankhurst
Treaty of Paris
20. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Count Cavour
White Russians
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Rockefeller
21. 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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22. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
ultraroyalists
Continental System
Friedrich Nietzsche
23. 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.
John Stuart Mill
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of Paris
War of Austrian Succession
24. 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.
Transcendentalists
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Albert
25. 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.
Edinburgh
Lusitania
Revolution from Above
Austro-Hungarian Empire
26. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Kronstadt
James Watt
Adam Smith
27. 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.'
Vladimir Lenin
Gottfried Leibniz
Bishop Bossuet
Theodore Herzl
28. 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.
Louis XIV
Factory Act
Edmund Burke
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
29. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Charles X
Steel
Emelyn Pugachev
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
30. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Robert Koch
conscription
Fascist Party
31. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Bulge
Declaration of Pillnitz
Utilitarianism
32. 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
'Turnip' Townsend
Ferdinand VII
Charles X
33. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
North German Confederation
Emmanuel Sieyes
Battle of the Bulge
Lenin and Trotsky
34. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Emmeline Prankhurst
ultraroyalists
Count Cavour
Ottoman empire dissolved
35. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Sergei Witte
Heinrich Himmler
Bradenburg-Prussia
Easter Rising
36. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Third International
Charles X
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Triple Alliance
37. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Home Rule
Ptolemy
John Rockefeller
John F. Kennedy
38. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Absolutism
Austria-Hungary
Revolution from Above
Directory
39. 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.
Fascist Party
Marshall plan
New Economic Policy
Ptolemy
40. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Georges Jacques Danton
Louis Philippe I
41. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Adolf Eichmann
Committee of Public Safety
Holy Alliance
42. 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.
British East India Company
Russian Revolution
Catherine the Great
Napoleon
43. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Allies
Treaty of London
Enclosure movement
Steel
44. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Rene Descartes
Factory Act
Cecil Rhodes.
45. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
ancien regime
Factory Act
Dulce et Decorum Est
Lateran Pact
46. 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
Volksgeist
Napoleon
Joseph Stalin
Francois Voltaire
47. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Francois Voltaire
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Eastern Question
Lusitania
48. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Edict of Nantes
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Social Democratic Party
Paris Commune
49. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Oliver Cromwell
Fascist Party
Austria-Hungary
50. 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.
White Russians
Lusitania
Frederick the Great
Berlin Conference