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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Nazi
Count Cavour
Charles Montesquieu
Cecil Rhodes.
2. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Legislative Assembly
Assembly of Notables
Concert of Europe
Paris Commune
3. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
First and Second International
Franz Ferdinand
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
4. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Leipzig
John Stuart Mill
Battle of Adowa
Secularization
5. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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6. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Factory Act
Thirty Years' War
Marshall plan
7. 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
Count Cavour
Paris Commune
X-Ray
Francois Voltaire
8. 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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9. 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
North German Confederation
Catherine the Great
Directory
10. 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.
Paracelsus
Johannes Kepler
Frederick the Great
Ferdinand VII
11. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Thermidor
Edict of Nantes
Spanish-American War
12. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Thermidor
Panther
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Final Solution
13. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Boer War
Panther
Chartist Movement
14. 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.
Holy Alliance
Continental System
Denis Diderot
Charles X
15. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Fascist Party
Johannes Kepler
Andrew Carnegie
Committee of Public Safety
16. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Potsdam
Austro-Piedmontese War
Napoleon
Benjamin Disraeli
17. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Kulaks
The Glorious Revolution
French Revolution of 1848
18. 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
The Glorious Revolution
X-Ray
Directory
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
19. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
'Turnip' Townsend
English Civil War
Johannes Kepler
Lateran Pact
20. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Joseph II
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Treaty of Paris
Count Cavour
21. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Joseph Stalin
Easter Rising
Home Rule
Triple Alliance
22. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Transcendentalists
Sir Francis Bacon
Bishop Bossuet
X-Ray
23. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Jacobins
Fabian Society
Revisionists
Battle of the Bulge
24. 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
English Civil War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
25. Soviet counterpart to NATO
John Stuart Mill
Warsaw Pact
Committee of Public Safety
Central Powers.
26. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Allies
Concert of Europe
British East India Company
27. 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.
Transcendentalists
Isaac Newton
Triple Entente
Petition of Rights
28. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Lateran Pact
Assembly of Notables
Free French
29. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Revisionists
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Joseph Stalin
30. 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.
Treaty of London
Catherine the Great
Battle of Adowa
Franco-Prussian War
31. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Edinburgh
Count Cavour
Triple Entente
Daimler and Benz
32. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Battle of the Somme
Black Shirt March
Marshall plan
Joseph II
33. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Enclosure movement
Robert Koch
New Economic Policy
soviets
34. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Nazi
James Watt
Jean Paul Marat
35. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Congress of Vienna
Napoleon
Steel
36. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Thermidorian Reaction
Denis Diderot
First and Second International
Red Russians
37. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
'Turnip' Townsend
Dutch Republic
Francois Voltaire
Charles X
38. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
ultraroyalists
Boer War
Edmund Burke
Spanish Civil War
39. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Factory Act
Triple Entente
Leipzig
Thomas Malthus
40. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Denis Diderot
Fascist Party
Franz Ferdinand
Concert of Europe
41. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Louis Philippe I
Social Democratic Party
Whigs
Daimler and Benz
42. 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
Continental System
Declaration of Pillnitz
Thermidorian Reaction
Nikita Khrushchev
43. 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
Francois Voltaire
North German Confederation
Red Russians
English Civil War
44. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Catherine the Great
Isaac Newton
Allies
Berlin Conference
45. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Atlantic Charter
Robert Koch
Edward Gibbon
Public Health Act
46. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georges Jacques Danton
Tories
Adam Smith
47. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Benito Mussolini
Fascist Party
Soviet-Afghan War
Edmund Burke
48. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Lenin and Trotsky
Congress of Vienna
Francois Voltaire
Axis Powers
49. 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.
Petition of Rights
Emmeline Prankhurst
Isaac Newton
Louis Philippe I
50. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Eastern Question
English Civil War
Volksgeist
Vichy Regime
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