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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
North German Confederation
White Russians
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enigma
2. 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.
Red Russians
Giuseppe Mazzini
Girondins
Russian Revolution
3. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Potsdam
James Watt
Cecil Rhodes.
British East India Company
4. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Treaty of London
Herbert Spencer
Nikita Khrushchev
5. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Russian Revolution
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
6. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Committee of Public Safety
Denis Diderot
Potsdam
7. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Oliver Cromwell
Thirty Years' War
Sir Francis Bacon
Jacobins
8. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Revolution from Above
William Gladstone
Petition of Rights
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.
Francois Voltaire
First and Second International
North German Confederation
John Rockefeller
10. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Third International
Panther
Revolution from Above
11. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Treaty of Tilsit
Austro-Hungarian Empire
12. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Adolf Eichmann
Factory Act
Denis Diderot
Directory
13. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Austro-Piedmontese War
Vesalius
Emelyn Pugachev
14. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Axis Powers
Gottfried Leibniz
Johannes Kepler
Stalingrad
15. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Thermidorian Reaction
Marshall plan
John Locke
Battle of the Bulge
16. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Joseph Stalin
Spanish-American War
War of Austrian Succession
Battle of the Bulge
17. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Isaac Newton
Spanish Civil War
Catherine the Great
Napoleon
18. Invented CROP ROTATION.
19. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Denis Diderot
Louis Philippe I
fire at the Reichstag
Peter the Great
20. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Edward Gibbon
Social Democratic Party
Emmanuel Sieyes
Charles X
21. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Catherine the Great
Brezhnev Doctrine
Chartist Movement
Louis XIV
22. 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.'
Emmanuel Sieyes
ultraroyalists
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Bishop Bossuet
23. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Joseph II
Edward Gibbon
Galileo Galilei
24. 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.
Triple Entente
Adam Smith
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Benjamin Disraeli
25. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Francois Voltaire
Gottfried Leibniz
Central Powers.
War of Austrian Succession
26. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
soviets
Atlantic Charter
Johannes Kepler
Russian Revolution
27. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Paracelsus
Heinrich Himmler
Denis Diderot
Vesalius
28. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Adolf Eichmann
Panther
Ferdinand VII
Thermidor
29. A military draft
Secularization
conscription
Joseph Stalin
Fascist Party
30. 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
Austro-Piedmontese War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Committee of Public Safety
31. 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
Volksgeist
Girondins
Rene Descartes
32. 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.
Black Shirt March
Factory Act
Sir Francis Bacon
Girondins
33. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Legislative Assembly
Quadruple Alliance
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lenin and Trotsky
34. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
35. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Final Solution
Napoleon
Utilitarianism
Labour Party
36. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Petition of Rights
Fabian Society
Peter the Great
37. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Joseph Stalin
Thirty Years' War
fire at the Reichstag
Triple Alliance
38. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Oliver Cromwell
Volksgeist
Andrew Carnegie
Social Democratic Party
39. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Treaty of Tilsit
Easter Rising
Frederick the Great
40. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lateran Pact
Home Rule
41. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Leipzig
Battle of the Somme
Boer War
Emmeline Prankhurst
42. 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.
Herbert Spencer
Fascist Party
Volksgeist
Austro-Piedmontese War
43. 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.
Vesalius
Free French
Congress of Vienna
John Locke
44. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Nazi
Vichy Regime
Sergei Witte
45. 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.
Catherine the Great
Ferdinand VII
White Russians
Franco-Prussian War
46. 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.
Concert of Europe
Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Disraeli
Congress of Vienna
47. 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.
Edinburgh
Charles X
Francois Voltaire
Treaty of Frankfurt
48. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Thirty Years' War
John Stuart Mill
Ptolemy
Oliver Cromwell
49. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Third International
Robert Koch
Louis XIV
Concert of Europe
50. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Black Shirt March
Marshall plan
Russian Revolution
Joseph II