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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Russian Revolution
Ottoman empire dissolved
Lenin and Trotsky
2. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Labour Party
Gottfried Leibniz
Paris Commune
Soviet-Afghan War
3. A Jewish British prime minister.
Denis Diderot
Panther
Ptolemy
Benjamin Disraeli
4. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Seven Weeks' War
Thomas Malthus
John F. Kennedy
5. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Adolf Eichmann
Emmanuel Sieyes
New Economic Policy
Georges Jacques Danton
6. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Dutch Republic
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Cecil Rhodes.
Eastern Question
7. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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8. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Louis XIV
Utilitarianism
North German Confederation
Mary Wollstonecraft
9. 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.
Denis Diderot
North German Confederation
Warsaw Pact
Seven Year's War
10. 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.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Black Shirt March
Transcendentalists
Adolf Eichmann
11. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Theodore Herzl
Factory Act
Battle of the Bulge
Crimean War
12. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
'Turnip' Townsend
Dutch Republic
Treaty of Frankfurt
John Rockefeller
13. Important ZIONIST.
Leipzig
Theodore Herzl
Russo-Japanese War
Treaty of Tilsit
14. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Allied Powers
French Revolution of 1848
vanguard
Public Health Act
15. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Triple Entente
Atlantic Charter
Public Health Act
16. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Concert of Europe
Denis Diderot
17. 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
Russo-Japanese War
Seven Year's War
Bradenburg-Prussia
18. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Stalingrad
X-Ray
Bishop Bossuet
Marshall plan
19. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Reform Bill
Edward Gibbon
Concert of Europe
Lenin and Trotsky
20. 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
Enigma
Louis Philippe I
North German Confederation
21. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Franco-Prussian War
Korean War
John F. Kennedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
22. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Legislative Assembly
First and Second International
Battle of Adowa
Rene Descartes
23. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Joseph Stalin
Allies
Steel
Frederick the Great
24. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Catherine the Great
Reform Bill
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Leipzig
25. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Louis Philippe I
Nikita Khrushchev
Vesalius
First and Second International
26. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Free French
Labour Party
The War of Jenkin's Ear
John Rockefeller
27. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Battle of Adowa
Soviet-Afghan War
Continental System
Peter the Great
28. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Third International
Gottfried Leibniz
Joseph Stalin
29. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Vladimir Lenin
Paracelsus
30. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Crimean War
Marshall plan
Thermidorian Reaction
31. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Korean War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Piedmontese War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
32. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Franco-Prussian War
Gottfried Leibniz
Bradenburg-Prussia
33. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Utilitarianism
Committee of Public Safety
Directory
James Watt
34. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Russian Revolution
X-Ray
Emelyn Pugachev
Atlantic Charter
35. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Napoleon
Franz Ferdinand
conscription
36. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Georges Jacques Danton
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of Tilsit
Giueseppe Garibaldi
37. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Public Health Act
Congress of Vienna
Vladimir Lenin
38. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Thirty Years' War
Napoleon
Francois Voltaire
39. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Edmund Burke
Edinburgh
North German Confederation
40. 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
Third International
Denis Diderot
John F. Kennedy
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
41. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Eastern Question
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Ptolemy
Public Health Act
42. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Francois Voltaire
Directory
Atlantic Charter
Ottoman empire dissolved
43. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Sir Francis Bacon
Giuseppe Mazzini
Kronstadt
Emmeline Prankhurst
44. 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
Dulce et Decorum Est
Copernicus
Treaty of London
Theodore Herzl
45. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Secularization
Triple Alliance
Edmund Burke
Battle of the Bulge
46. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Thomas Malthus
John Rockefeller
Theodore Herzl
Soviet-Afghan War
47. 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.
Korean War
Ptolemy
Jean Paul Marat
Nikita Khrushchev
48. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Battle of Adowa
Vichy Regime
William Gladstone
Enigma
49. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Heinrich Himmler
Isaac Newton
Joseph Stalin
Red Russians
50. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Benito Mussolini
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Spanish Civil War
Concert of Europe
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