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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Final Solution
Isaac Newton
Battle of the Bulge
French Revolution of 1848
2. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Treaty of London
James Watt
Continental System
Franco-Prussian War
3. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Robert Koch
Battle of the Somme
Austro-Hungarian Empire
English Civil War
4. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ancien regime
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Francois Voltaire
ultraroyalists
5. 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.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Franco-Prussian War
Allied Powers
Fascist Party
6. 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.
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Bulge
Cecil Rhodes.
Nikita Khrushchev
7. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Thirty Years' War
Battle of the Bulge
Galileo Galilei
8. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Enigma
Korean War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Giuseppe Mazzini
9. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Continental System
Herbert Spencer
Georges Jacques Danton
Isaac Newton
10. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
William and Catherine Booth
Final Solution
Vichy Regime
11. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Adam Smith
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XIV
Spanish Civil War
12. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Thermidor
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Black Shirt March
13. 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
Edmund Burke
Boer War
Thermidorian Reaction
Final Solution
14. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Kulaks
Nazi
Eastern Question
Bradenburg-Prussia
15. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Fabian Society
Treaty of Paris
Spanish Civil War
Atlantic Charter
16. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
John Stuart Mill
Allied Powers
Heinrich Himmler
Transcendentalists
17. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Jacobins
Triple Alliance
Edward Gibbon
Berlin Conference
18. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Sir Francis Bacon
Count Cavour
Crimean War
Fabian Society
19. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
New Economic Policy
Lenin and Trotsky
Louis Philippe I
20. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Spanish Civil War
Sergei Witte
French Revolution of 1848
British East India Company
21. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Revisionists
Panther
Jean Paul Marat
22. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Enigma
Emmanuel Sieyes
Fascist Party
23. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Theodore Herzl
Steel
John Stuart Mill
Russo-Japanese War
24. 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.
Edmund Burke
New Economic Policy
Louis Philippe I
Girondins
25. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
War of Austrian Succession
Atlantic Charter
Labour Party
Boer War
26. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Adam Smith
Lusitania
Directory
Revisionists
27. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
New Economic Policy
Leipzig
Edinburgh
Labour Party
28. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Edmund Burke
Louis Philippe I
The Glorious Revolution
Central Powers.
29. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Holy Alliance
Panther
Galileo Galilei
Battle of the Somme
30. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Warsaw Pact
Benjamin Disraeli
Treaty of London
Secularization
31. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Quadruple Alliance
Denis Diderot
Triple Alliance
32. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Emmeline Prankhurst
Austro-Piedmontese War
Korean War
33. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Enigma
Thomas Malthus
English Civil War
Black Shirt March
34. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Home Rule
Herbert Spencer
35. Britain and America
Mary Wollstonecraft
Dual Monarchy
Allied Powers
William and Catherine Booth
36. 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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37. 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
Potsdam
Revisionists
Dutch Republic
Holy Alliance
38. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Battle of Adowa
Public Health Act
Johannes Kepler
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
39. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Volksgeist
Francois Voltaire
Lusitania
Thermidor
40. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Galileo Galilei
Reform Bill
fire at the Reichstag
41. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Easter Rising
Eastern Question
Benito Mussolini
Austro-Piedmontese War
42. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Giuseppe Mazzini
Charles Albert
fire at the Reichstag
43. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Benjamin Disraeli
Rene Descartes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edward Gibbon
44. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Utilitarianism
Reform Bill
X-Ray
45. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Battle of the Somme
North German Confederation
Paris Commune
46. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Whigs
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ultraroyalists
Third International
47. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Vichy Regime
Thomas Malthus
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
48. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Triple Entente
Continental System
Peter the Great
White Russians
49. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Count Cavour
Potsdam
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
50. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Bradenburg-Prussia
Social Democratic Party
Volksgeist
John Stuart Mill