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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Germany - Italy - and Japan
fire at the Reichstag
Sir Francis Bacon
Emmeline Prankhurst
Axis Powers
2. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Panther
Nikita Khrushchev
Adolf Eichmann
3. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Labour Party
Heinrich Himmler
Volksgeist
Paracelsus
4. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Lateran Pact
Revolution from Above
Catherine the Great
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. 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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6. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Absolutism
Greek Revolution
Treaty of Paris
Jacobins
7. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Nazi
Quadruple Alliance
Paris Commune
French Revolution of 1848
8. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Adolf Eichmann
Ferdinand VII
Central Powers.
Edmund Burke
9. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Louis XIV
Marie Curie
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Secularization
10. 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
Rene Descartes
Tories
Kronstadt
Potsdam
11. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Blaise Pascal
Chartist Movement
Peter the Great
Charles Montesquieu
12. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Russian Revolution
Legislative Assembly
Ptolemy
13. 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
Home Rule
The Glorious Revolution
Petition of Rights
Russo-Japanese War
14. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Adam Smith
Nazi
Fabian Society
15. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Lenin and Trotsky
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
War of Austrian Succession
Adam Smith
16. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Kronstadt
Bradenburg-Prussia
Galileo Galilei
17. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Axis Powers
White Russians
Russo-Japanese War
18. 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.
ancien regime
Fascist Party
Bradenburg-Prussia
New Economic Policy
19. Founded the Salvation Army
Andrew Carnegie
'Turnip' Townsend
Emmanuel Sieyes
William and Catherine Booth
20. 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
Nazi
Transcendentalists
Thermidorian Reaction
Emelyn Pugachev
21. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Nazi
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Adam Smith
22. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
New Economic Policy
Secularization
Directory
Factory Act
23. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Steel
Legislative Assembly
Panther
French Revolution of 1848
24. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of Adowa
Battle of the Somme
Utilitarianism
Crimean War
25. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Home Rule
Joseph Stalin
26. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
British East India Company
Russo-Japanese War
Frederick the Great
27. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Daimler and Benz
Utilitarianism
Tories
28. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Free French
Louis Philippe I
Spanish Civil War
Thermidor
29. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Benito Mussolini
Georges Jacques Danton
X-Ray
30. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Robert Koch
Dulce et Decorum Est
Oliver Cromwell
31. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Isaac Newton
Mary Wollstonecraft
Girondins
32. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Spanish-American War
Count Cavour
Brezhnev Doctrine
Korean War
33. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Copernicus
Lusitania
Zimmerman telegram
Edward Gibbon
34. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Paracelsus
Treaty of Frankfurt
English Civil War
35. 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.
English Civil War
Panther
Volksgeist
Soviet-Afghan War
36. 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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37. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Battle of the Somme
Oliver Cromwell
Triple Entente
38. 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
Easter Rising
Joseph Stalin
Legislative Assembly
Steel
39. 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
John Stuart Mill
Eastern Question
Francois Voltaire
Spanish-American War
40. 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)
Warsaw Pact
Paracelsus
Benito Mussolini
Eastern Question
41. Discovered radium.
Allies
Marie Curie
Final Solution
Treaty of Paris
42. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Allies
Zimmerman telegram
Declaration of Pillnitz
Catherine the Great
43. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Georges Jacques Danton
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Daimler and Benz
Gottfried Leibniz
44. 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.'
Emelyn Pugachev
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Austria-Hungary
Bishop Bossuet
45. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Spanish Civil War
Franco-Prussian War
Red Russians
46. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Declaration of Pillnitz
Dual Monarchy
Marie Curie
47. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Reform Bill
Social Democratic Party
Congress of Vienna
British East India Company
48. 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 Philippe I
Congress of Vienna
Utilitarianism
John Rockefeller
49. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Ptolemy
Treaty of London
Andrew Carnegie
Spanish-American War
50. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Volksgeist
Public Health Act
Napoleon