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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Catherine the Great
John F. Kennedy
Vesalius
Concert of Europe
2. 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.
Kulaks
Emelyn Pugachev
Adolf Eichmann
Tories
3. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Marshall plan
Adolf Eichmann
Giuseppe Mazzini
Frederick the Great
4. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Triple Entente
Seven Year's War
Public Health Act
Revisionists
5. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Home Rule
Nazi
Giuseppe Mazzini
6. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Denis Diderot
John Locke
Social Democratic Party
Congress of Vienna
7. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Public Health Act
Triple Alliance
Thermidor
Oliver Cromwell
8. 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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9. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Utilitarianism
Frederick the Great
Georges Jacques Danton
William and Catherine Booth
10. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Marie Curie
Edward Gibbon
Jacobins
Georges Jacques Danton
11. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Napoleon
Catherine the Great
Daimler and Benz
12. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Adam Smith
Concert of Europe
Blaise Pascal
13. 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.
Thirty Years' War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Central Powers.
Congress of Vienna
14. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Denis Diderot
Treaty of Paris
Charles X
15. 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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16. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Thomas Malthus
Kulaks
Kronstadt
Thirty Years' War
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.
Louis Philippe I
Isaac Newton
John Stuart Mill
Nazi
18. 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
Edmund Burke
Marshall plan
Sir Francis Bacon
Copernicus
19. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Enigma
soviets
Berlin Conference
Rene Descartes
20. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Bishop Bossuet
Committee of Public Safety
Reform Bill
Panther
21. 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.
Eastern Question
Volksgeist
Catherine the Great
Heinrich Himmler
22. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Berlin Conference
Dual Monarchy
Frederick the Great
23. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Triple Alliance
Enclosure movement
Thomas Malthus
Thermidor
24. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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25. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
White Russians
Johannes Kepler
Triple Alliance
Battle of the Bulge
26. 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.
Edict of Nantes
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Reform Bill
27. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Whigs
Charles X
Kronstadt
Robert Koch
28. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Denis Diderot
Dual Monarchy
Blaise Pascal
29. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Daimler and Benz
Directory
Edmund Burke
Heinrich Himmler
30. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Sergei Witte
Ferdinand VII
Committee of Public Safety
English Civil War
31. 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.
Fabian Society
Panther
Directory
New Economic Policy
32. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Lusitania
soviets
Galileo Galilei
33. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Dual Monarchy
Tories
Lusitania
Lenin and Trotsky
34. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Seven Year's War
Whigs
Treaty of Paris
Dual Monarchy
35. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Austria-Hungary
Declaration of Pillnitz
Korean War
'Turnip' Townsend
36. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Joseph II
Daimler and Benz
Revolution from Above
Charles Montesquieu
37. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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38. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Greek Revolution
Rene Descartes
Johannes Kepler
Sergei Witte
39. 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.
Napoleon
Emelyn Pugachev
Home Rule
Dutch Republic
40. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Home Rule
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Robert Koch
First and Second International
41. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Oliver Cromwell
Continental System
Giuseppe Mazzini
Triple Alliance
42. 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
Thirty Years' War
Vesalius
Isaac Newton
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
43. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Johannes Kepler
Mary Wollstonecraft
Adam Smith
44. 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)
Herbert Spencer
Benito Mussolini
Absolutism
Seven Year's War
45. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Crimean War
Greek Revolution
Cecil Rhodes.
Dulce et Decorum Est
46. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
The Glorious Revolution
Edinburgh
Third International
Austro-Hungarian Empire
47. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
The Glorious Revolution
Declaration of Pillnitz
Warsaw Pact
48. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Allies
Francois Voltaire
Atlantic Charter
Marshall plan
49. Important ZIONIST.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Lenin and Trotsky
Theodore Herzl
Battle of Adowa
50. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Vichy Regime
Benjamin Disraeli
Jacobins
Heinrich Himmler