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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Enclosure movement
Girondins
Easter Rising
Final Solution
2. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
English Civil War
John Stuart Mill
Emelyn Pugachev
New Economic Policy
3. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Home Rule
Transcendentalists
Adolf Eichmann
4. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Franz Ferdinand
Edward Gibbon
Georges Jacques Danton
Crimean War
5. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Edict of Nantes
Final Solution
Declaration of Pillnitz
War of Austrian Succession
6. A Jewish British prime minister.
First and Second International
Oliver Cromwell
Marie Curie
Benjamin Disraeli
7. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Nikita Khrushchev
Emmeline Prankhurst
Warsaw Pact
Declaration of Pillnitz
8. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Dutch Republic
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Montesquieu
Sir Francis Bacon
9. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
John Rockefeller
Kronstadt
Franz Ferdinand
Soviet-Afghan War
10. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Cecil Rhodes.
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Zimmerman telegram
11. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Sergei Witte
Thermidor
Enigma
Emmanuel Sieyes
12. 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.
North German Confederation
John Stuart Mill
Absolutism
Benito Mussolini
13. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Robert Koch
'Turnip' Townsend
Louis XIV
14. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Bulge
John F. Kennedy
Tories
15. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Steel
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Quadruple Alliance
Robert Koch
16. 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.
Black Shirt March
Transcendentalists
Herbert Spencer
Third International
17. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Franco-Prussian War
vanguard
Concert of Europe
Louis Philippe I
18. 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
Count Cavour
Benito Mussolini
Petition of Rights
19. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Soviet-Afghan War
'Turnip' Townsend
Labour Party
Lenin and Trotsky
20. 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
Public Health Act
The Glorious Revolution
Kronstadt
21. Discovered radium.
Nikita Khrushchev
John Stuart Mill
Marie Curie
Russo-Japanese War
22. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
John F. Kennedy
Paris Commune
Jean Paul Marat
Charles X
23. 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.
Petition of Rights
Treaty of Tilsit
Assembly of Notables
Joseph II
24. 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
Austro-Piedmontese War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thermidorian Reaction
conscription
25. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Treaty of London
Boer War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Russian Revolution
26. Britain and America
Fabian Society
Committee of Public Safety
Allied Powers
Paris Commune
27. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Peter the Great
Treaty of London
Seven Weeks' War
Central Powers.
28. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Steel
Panther
Factory Act
29. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Crimean War
Spanish-American War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Austro-Hungarian Empire
30. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Tories
First and Second International
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Korean War
31. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
soviets
Revisionists
Final Solution
32. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Reform Bill
Nazi
Franz Ferdinand
Marshall plan
33. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
New Economic Policy
Free French
Petition of Rights
Edinburgh
34. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
fire at the Reichstag
Friedrich Nietzsche
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lusitania
35. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Jean Paul Marat
Paracelsus
Zimmerman telegram
Continental System
36. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Franco-Prussian War
Lenin and Trotsky
Edict of Nantes
37. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Napoleon
Triple Entente
Sir Francis Bacon
38. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Final Solution
Tories
Sir Francis Bacon
Black Shirt March
39. 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
Seven Year's War
Gottfried Leibniz
Panther
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
40. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Ferdinand VII
Thermidor
Boer War
41. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Fascist Party
Chartist Movement
Dutch Republic
Nikita Khrushchev
42. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Battle of Adowa
William Gladstone
Austro-Piedmontese War
43. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Assembly of Notables
Korean War
Warsaw Pact
44. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Black Shirt March
Giuseppe Mazzini
Panther
45. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Committee of Public Safety
Spanish Civil War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Louis XIV
46. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Concert of Europe
Enclosure movement
Utilitarianism
Spanish Civil War
47. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Napoleon
Revisionists
The Glorious Revolution
48. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Girondins
Dutch Republic
Edinburgh
49. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Benito Mussolini
Committee of Public Safety
Ferdinand VII
Vesalius
50. Important ZIONIST.
Adolf Eichmann
Berlin Conference
Rene Descartes
Theodore Herzl