SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Western Civilization II
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Labour Party
Lusitania
Spanish Civil War
Vesalius
2. 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
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
3. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Francois Voltaire
Charles Montesquieu
vanguard
Triple Alliance
4. 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)
Edict of Nantes
Social Democratic Party
Benito Mussolini
Battle of the Bulge
5. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Louis XIV
Seven Year's War
Whigs
Count Cavour
6. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
John Locke
Treaty of Frankfurt
Benito Mussolini
7. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
John Rockefeller
Paris Commune
Axis Powers
Final Solution
8. 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.
Leipzig
Charles X
Congress of Vienna
Count Cavour
9. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Greek Revolution
Nazi
Franz Ferdinand
Isaac Newton
10. 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
John F. Kennedy
Isaac Newton
Utilitarianism
Kronstadt
11. 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.
Treaty of Paris
Zimmerman telegram
Emmeline Prankhurst
Louis XIV
12. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
fire at the Reichstag
Friedrich Nietzsche
White Russians
John F. Kennedy
13. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Georges Jacques Danton
Lusitania
Leipzig
14. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Galileo Galilei
Petition of Rights
Jacobins
Axis Powers
15. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Spanish-American War
Stalingrad
Spanish Civil War
Public Health Act
16. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Black Shirt March
Lenin and Trotsky
Utilitarianism
Marshall plan
17. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Thirty Years' War
Spanish-American War
Edward Gibbon
Triple Alliance
18. 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.
Edmund Burke
British East India Company
vanguard
Factory Act
19. 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
Spanish Civil War
War of Austrian Succession
Seven Year's War
Treaty of Tilsit
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
Galileo Galilei
Thermidorian Reaction
North German Confederation
21. 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.
Catherine the Great
Galileo Galilei
Committee of Public Safety
Treaty of Tilsit
22. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Fascist Party
Peter the Great
Declaration of Pillnitz
Enclosure movement
23. Extermination of the Jews.
Treaty of Tilsit
Absolutism
Public Health Act
Final Solution
24. 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.
Central Powers.
Thermidor
Panther
Denis Diderot
25. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Chartist Movement
Austro-Piedmontese War
Triple Entente
26. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Benjamin Disraeli
Paris Commune
Revisionists
Jean Paul Marat
27. 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.
James Watt
Peter the Great
Vesalius
Holy Alliance
28. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Public Health Act
Austro-Piedmontese War
Assembly of Notables
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
29. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Georges Jacques Danton
Vesalius
Frederick the Great
Sir Francis Bacon
30. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Catherine the Great
First and Second International
Treaty of Tilsit
Austria-Hungary
31. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Count Cavour
Spanish-American War
Edmund Burke
'Turnip' Townsend
32. 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.
James Watt
Volksgeist
Emelyn Pugachev
Mary Wollstonecraft
33. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Vladimir Lenin
Social Democratic Party
Revisionists
34. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Vichy Regime
Heinrich Himmler
Dulce et Decorum Est
35. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Bishop Bossuet
John Locke
John F. Kennedy
36. 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.
Girondins
Warsaw Pact
Galileo Galilei
Charles X
37. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Social Democratic Party
Marie Curie
Absolutism
Continental System
38. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
ultraroyalists
Quadruple Alliance
Public Health Act
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
39. 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
Herbert Spencer
Brezhnev Doctrine
Thomas Malthus
Zimmerman telegram
40. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Rene Descartes
Social Democratic Party
Triple Alliance
41. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Nazi
Potsdam
Triple Alliance
42. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Whigs
Dulce et Decorum Est
New Economic Policy
ultraroyalists
43. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Stalingrad
Utilitarianism
Catherine the Great
Atlantic Charter
44. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
John Rockefeller
John Locke
Frederick the Great
Transcendentalists
45. 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
English Civil War
Nikita Khrushchev
Louis XIV
Public Health Act
46. A Jewish British prime minister.
Soviet-Afghan War
Charles Albert
fire at the Reichstag
Benjamin Disraeli
47. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Spanish-American War
Easter Rising
Ottoman empire dissolved
Ferdinand VII
48. 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
First and Second International
Potsdam
Andrew Carnegie
Allies
49. 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.
Berlin Conference
Catherine the Great
Concert of Europe
Russian Revolution
50. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Thirty Years' War
Theodore Herzl
Warsaw Pact
Allies