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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
James Watt
Paris Commune
White Russians
2. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Enigma
Adolf Eichmann
fire at the Reichstag
3. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Stalingrad
Edward Gibbon
Louis XIV
4. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Peter the Great
Concert of Europe
Crimean War
5. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Labour Party
Adam Smith
Steel
6. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Fabian Society
Utilitarianism
Nazi
Vesalius
7. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Emelyn Pugachev
Continental System
Whigs
8. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Austria-Hungary
Edmund Burke
Boer War
Jean Paul Marat
9. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Vesalius
Spanish Civil War
Edinburgh
Axis Powers
10. 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
Thermidor
Triple Entente
Benito Mussolini
11. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treaty of London
Atlantic Charter
Tories
12. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Factory Act
Peter the Great
Herbert Spencer
Russian Revolution
13. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Cecil Rhodes.
Thomas Malthus
Theodore Herzl
Battle of the Bulge
14. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Volksgeist
Eastern Question
Franz Ferdinand
Directory
15. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Battle of Adowa
Edict of Nantes
Sergei Witte
Concert of Europe
16. 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
Copernicus
Atlantic Charter
Cecil Rhodes.
Allies
17. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Andrew Carnegie
Galileo Galilei
Lenin and Trotsky
Vesalius
18. 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.
Whigs
Joseph II
Zimmerman telegram
Public Health Act
19. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Eastern Question
White Russians
Assembly of Notables
Blaise Pascal
20. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Bishop Bossuet
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Stalingrad
Thomas Malthus
21. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
John Locke
Boer War
Heinrich Himmler
Free French
22. 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).
Isaac Newton
Quadruple Alliance
Georges Jacques Danton
Public Health Act
23. 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)
X-Ray
Sir Francis Bacon
Benito Mussolini
soviets
24. 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.
Concert of Europe
Ptolemy
First and Second International
Frederick the Great
25. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Sergei Witte
Girondins
Cecil Rhodes.
Easter Rising
26. 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
Spanish Civil War
Whigs
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Potsdam
27. 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.
Joseph II
Third International
Marie Curie
Emmeline Prankhurst
28. 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
Lusitania
Absolutism
Copernicus
29. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Paracelsus
William and Catherine Booth
Home Rule
Rene Descartes
30. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Edmund Burke
Enclosure movement
Edict of Nantes
31. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
conscription
Enigma
Lusitania
32. 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.
Sergei Witte
Austria-Hungary
Seven Year's War
Crimean War
33. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Enclosure movement
Napoleon
Treaty of Paris
Allies
34. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
fire at the Reichstag
Fascist Party
Thomas Malthus
35. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Heinrich Himmler
Franco-Prussian War
Black Shirt March
36. 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.
Panther
Enigma
Triple Alliance
Home Rule
37. A military draft
conscription
Red Russians
Austro-Piedmontese War
Galileo Galilei
38. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Fabian Society
Lusitania
Continental System
39. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Edinburgh
Emelyn Pugachev
Chartist Movement
Daimler and Benz
40. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Treaty of Paris
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sergei Witte
41. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Jean Paul Marat
Committee of Public Safety
Boer War
Edward Gibbon
42. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Assembly of Notables
Black Shirt March
Adam Smith
43. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Battle of Adowa
Volksgeist
Daimler and Benz
James Watt
44. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Assembly of Notables
First and Second International
Factory Act
Vichy Regime
45. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
X-Ray
Treaty of Frankfurt
Thomas Malthus
Chartist Movement
46. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Emelyn Pugachev
Johannes Kepler
Revisionists
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
47. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Treaty of Tilsit
Thermidor
Austro-Piedmontese War
fire at the Reichstag
48. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Revolution from Above
Easter Rising
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
49. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Russian Revolution
Treaty of Frankfurt
Charles Montesquieu
Tories
50. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Berlin Conference
Marie Curie
James Watt
Sir Francis Bacon
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