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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Black Shirt March
Volksgeist
Sir Francis Bacon
Daimler and Benz
2. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Paracelsus
Benito Mussolini
Denis Diderot
Edict of Nantes
3. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Brezhnev Doctrine
Frederick the Great
First and Second International
4. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Thermidorian Reaction
Potsdam
Kronstadt
Secularization
5. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lateran Pact
Kulaks
6. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Vladimir Lenin
Bishop Bossuet
Copernicus
Russian Revolution
7. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Vesalius
Thirty Years' War
Transcendentalists
8. 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.
Transcendentalists
Free French
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Galileo Galilei
9. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Allies
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Soviet-Afghan War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
10. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Social Democratic Party
Enigma
Allies
11. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Lenin and Trotsky
Final Solution
Petition of Rights
Utilitarianism
12. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Assembly of Notables
Committee of Public Safety
Whigs
ultraroyalists
13. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Berlin Conference
Oliver Cromwell
Third International
14. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Franco-Prussian War
Cecil Rhodes.
Transcendentalists
Battle of the Bulge
15. 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
Central Powers.
Ptolemy
Potsdam
Triple Alliance
16. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Steel
ancien regime
Transcendentalists
Revolution from Above
17. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Utilitarianism
Congress of Vienna
Absolutism
18. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Cecil Rhodes.
Theodore Herzl
Crimean War
Joseph Stalin
19. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Seven Year's War
Final Solution
Treaty of London
Spanish Civil War
20. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
North German Confederation
Ptolemy
Holy Alliance
Herbert Spencer
21. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Benjamin Disraeli
Emmeline Prankhurst
Transcendentalists
Dulce et Decorum Est
22. 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.
New Economic Policy
Factory Act
Red Russians
Joseph II
23. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Vesalius
John Rockefeller
Lusitania
24. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Panther
Committee of Public Safety
Sergei Witte
Lateran Pact
25. 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
James Watt
First and Second International
John Locke
Volksgeist
26. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Dual Monarchy
Paracelsus
Adam Smith
27. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Volksgeist
Emmeline Prankhurst
Austria-Hungary
Triple Entente
28. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
New Economic Policy
Petition of Rights
Committee of Public Safety
29. 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
Nikita Khrushchev
Copernicus
Steel
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
30. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Daimler and Benz
Benjamin Disraeli
Absolutism
Edmund Burke
31. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Absolutism
Bradenburg-Prussia
Vladimir Lenin
32. 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
Marie Curie
Francois Voltaire
Treaty of London
Eastern Question
33. 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).
Red Russians
Georges Jacques Danton
soviets
ultraroyalists
34. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Charles Montesquieu
Whigs
Reform Bill
John Rockefeller
35. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Eastern Question
Central Powers.
Marshall plan
36. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Adam Smith
Reform Bill
Peter the Great
37. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Heinrich Himmler
Crimean War
Thermidor
38. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
William and Catherine Booth
Louis XIV
James Watt
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
39. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Jean Paul Marat
Holy Alliance
Leipzig
40. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Home Rule
Austro-Piedmontese War
Marshall plan
Enclosure movement
41. 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.
Thirty Years' War
Vesalius
North German Confederation
Dulce et Decorum Est
42. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Third International
Axis Powers
Dulce et Decorum Est
43. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Charles X
Holy Alliance
Austro-Piedmontese War
44. 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.
Edinburgh
Treaty of Frankfurt
Public Health Act
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
45. 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.
Holy Alliance
Spanish Civil War
Absolutism
John F. Kennedy
46. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Greek Revolution
Austro-Piedmontese War
Central Powers.
47. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Charles X
British East India Company
John F. Kennedy
Jacobins
48. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Quadruple Alliance
Adam Smith
William and Catherine Booth
49. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Paracelsus
Free French
Johannes Kepler
50. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of London
Ottoman empire dissolved
Jacobins