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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Triple Entente
Ottoman empire dissolved
Zimmerman telegram
New Economic Policy
2. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Berlin Conference
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Directory
3. 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
Steel
Axis Powers
North German Confederation
Copernicus
4. 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
Kulaks
John Rockefeller
Spanish Civil War
Edict of Nantes
5. 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
Russian Revolution
Lateran Pact
Heinrich Himmler
Isaac Newton
6. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Charles Montesquieu
Franco-Prussian War
Benjamin Disraeli
Rene Descartes
7. 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
Final Solution
Denis Diderot
Fascist Party
8. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
James Watt
Concert of Europe
Allied Powers
9. 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
Continental System
Sergei Witte
Kaiser Wilhelm I
10. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Benito Mussolini
Daimler and Benz
Allies
Friedrich Nietzsche
11. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Thomas Malthus
Steel
Allied Powers
fire at the Reichstag
12. 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.
Eastern Question
Charles Albert
Seven Year's War
Reform Bill
13. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Frederick the Great
Lenin and Trotsky
Charles X
Secularization
14. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Georges Jacques Danton
Zimmerman telegram
Enigma
soviets
15. 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
16. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Austria-Hungary
Continental System
Thirty Years' War
Warsaw Pact
17. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
French Revolution of 1848
Emmeline Prankhurst
Franco-Prussian War
18. 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.
ancien regime
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Third International
English Civil War
19. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
William Gladstone
Black Shirt March
Crimean War
Gottfried Leibniz
20. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Kulaks
Home Rule
Lusitania
Jacobins
21. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Franco-Prussian War
Sergei Witte
Paris Commune
Assembly of Notables
22. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Jacobins
Factory Act
James Watt
Dual Monarchy
23. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Boer War
Galileo Galilei
Emelyn Pugachev
Atlantic Charter
24. 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.
Triple Entente
Georges Jacques Danton
Lateran Pact
Volksgeist
25. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Adolf Eichmann
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Factory Act
Battle of the Somme
26. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Joseph Stalin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Chartist Movement
Lateran Pact
27. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Fabian Society
Nazi
Herbert Spencer
Edward Gibbon
28. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Fabian Society
Greek Revolution
Ottoman empire dissolved
29. 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.
Sergei Witte
Cecil Rhodes.
Utilitarianism
Adam Smith
30. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Transcendentalists
Treaty of Paris
ancien regime
Treaty of Tilsit
31. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Spanish-American War
Paracelsus
Spanish Civil War
British East India Company
32. 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.
Johannes Kepler
X-Ray
French Revolution of 1848
First and Second International
33. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Vichy Regime
Warsaw Pact
vanguard
34. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Kulaks
Concert of Europe
Charles Albert
35. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
fire at the Reichstag
John F. Kennedy
Edmund Burke
36. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Blaise Pascal
Crimean War
Louis XIV
Denis Diderot
37. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
North German Confederation
Nazi
War of Austrian Succession
Warsaw Pact
38. 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.'
Theodore Herzl
Bishop Bossuet
New Economic Policy
Central Powers.
39. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nazi
Marshall plan
40. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
41. 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.
Rene Descartes
Girondins
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
ancien regime
42. 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
War of Austrian Succession
Heinrich Himmler
Francois Voltaire
Battle of Adowa
43. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Allied Powers
Bishop Bossuet
Petition of Rights
Russo-Japanese War
44. 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.
Berlin Conference
Louis XIV
Crimean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
45. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Secularization
Sir Francis Bacon
Third International
Sergei Witte
46. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Atlantic Charter
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Korean War
John F. Kennedy
47. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Franz Ferdinand
Peter the Great
Third International
48. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Vichy Regime
Spanish Civil War
Revolution from Above
49. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Lenin and Trotsky
Georges Jacques Danton
William Gladstone
Bishop Bossuet
50. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
John F. Kennedy
Charles X
Red Russians