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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Fabian Society
The Glorious Revolution
Count Cavour
2. 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.
Enigma
Rene Descartes
Frederick the Great
Edmund Burke
3. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Volksgeist
Vladimir Lenin
Edinburgh
New Economic Policy
4. 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
soviets
ancien regime
Isaac Newton
5. 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
Napoleon
Treaty of London
Easter Rising
6. 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.
Congress of Vienna
Daimler and Benz
Axis Powers
Ottoman empire dissolved
7. 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.
Petition of Rights
Boer War
Paracelsus
Kaiser Wilhelm I
8. 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.
Social Democratic Party
Napoleon
Jacobins
Emelyn Pugachev
9. 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.
Georges Jacques Danton
Legislative Assembly
Cecil Rhodes.
Boer War
10. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Directory
Crimean War
British East India Company
11. 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.
Leipzig
Chartist Movement
French Revolution of 1848
Joseph II
12. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Charles X
Free French
Treaty of London
Battle of the Somme
13. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Panther
Berlin Conference
Assembly of Notables
14. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
John F. Kennedy
Axis Powers
Revisionists
Fascist Party
15. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Spanish-American War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Battle of the Bulge
Revisionists
16. 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
Seven Year's War
British East India Company
Benito Mussolini
17. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Joseph Stalin
Kulaks
Fabian Society
Jacobins
18. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Benito Mussolini
Friedrich Nietzsche
Secularization
19. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Dulce et Decorum Est
Treaty of Paris
Fascist Party
20. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Francois Voltaire
Battle of the Bulge
Triple Alliance
Kulaks
21. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Volksgeist
Russian Revolution
Cecil Rhodes.
22. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Rene Descartes
Assembly of Notables
Friedrich Nietzsche
Russian Revolution
23. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Cecil Rhodes.
Allies
Soviet-Afghan War
Seven Year's War
24. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Battle of Adowa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sir Francis Bacon
25. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Johannes Kepler
Treaty of Tilsit
Marshall plan
Whigs
26. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Stalingrad
Vesalius
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Third International
27. 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
Third International
Thermidorian Reaction
Gottfried Leibniz
Battle of Adowa
28. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Vesalius
Steel
Atlantic Charter
29. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Herbert Spencer
Rene Descartes
Seven Weeks' War
Continental System
30. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Ferdinand VII
Black Shirt March
Brezhnev Doctrine
Paris Commune
31. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Ptolemy
Easter Rising
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Quadruple Alliance
32. 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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33. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Spanish Civil War
William Gladstone
soviets
Johannes Kepler
34. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Paris Commune
Sergei Witte
Public Health Act
Free French
35. 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.'
Edmund Burke
Galileo Galilei
Bishop Bossuet
Oliver Cromwell
36. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Revisionists
Stalingrad
First and Second International
Tories
37. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Axis Powers
Legislative Assembly
Lusitania
Nikita Khrushchev
38. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Lateran Pact
John F. Kennedy
Frederick the Great
Joseph Stalin
39. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
North German Confederation
Giuseppe Mazzini
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Home Rule
40. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Copernicus
Secularization
Home Rule
Soviet-Afghan War
41. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Battle of the Bulge
Potsdam
Louis Philippe I
Heinrich Himmler
42. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Franco-Prussian War
Oliver Cromwell
Treaty of Tilsit
Boer War
43. Discovered radium.
Soviet-Afghan War
Lenin and Trotsky
Battle of the Somme
Marie Curie
44. 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
Girondins
Tories
Joseph Stalin
Axis Powers
45. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Dual Monarchy
Oliver Cromwell
Andrew Carnegie
Paris Commune
46. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Blaise Pascal
Russo-Japanese War
Kulaks
Utilitarianism
47. 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).
Treaty of London
Peter the Great
Georges Jacques Danton
Nikita Khrushchev
48. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Berlin Conference
New Economic Policy
Girondins
'Turnip' Townsend
49. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Dual Monarchy
Georges Jacques Danton
Legislative Assembly
50. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Cecil Rhodes.
Tories
X-Ray