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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Crimean War
First and Second International
Thirty Years' War
Congress of Vienna
2. 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.
Absolutism
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Friedrich Nietzsche
Holy Alliance
3. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Adolf Eichmann
Galileo Galilei
4. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Treaty of London
Thirty Years' War
Labour Party
Dual Monarchy
5. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Kulaks
Count Cavour
fire at the Reichstag
6. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Korean War
Treaty of Paris
Dutch Republic
Herbert Spencer
7. 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.
Home Rule
Adam Smith
Marshall plan
Lateran Pact
8. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Allied Powers
Steel
Legislative Assembly
Herbert Spencer
9. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Allies
vanguard
Kronstadt
Denis Diderot
10. 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
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11. 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.
First and Second International
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Georges Jacques Danton
Friedrich Nietzsche
12. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Franco-Prussian War
Joseph Stalin
Count Cavour
Benito Mussolini
13. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Daimler and Benz
Tories
War of Austrian Succession
Friedrich Nietzsche
14. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enigma
Enclosure movement
Triple Entente
Cecil Rhodes.
15. A military draft
Jean Paul Marat
conscription
Ptolemy
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
16. 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.
Revolution from Above
Edward Gibbon
Franz Ferdinand
Black Shirt March
17. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Count Cavour
Rene Descartes
Francois Voltaire
Factory Act
18. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Thermidorian Reaction
Congress of Vienna
Ferdinand VII
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
19. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Joseph II
Social Democratic Party
Austro-Hungarian Empire
20. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
James Watt
Count Cavour
Continental System
Revisionists
21. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Thirty Years' War
Social Democratic Party
White Russians
Herbert Spencer
22. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer
Edinburgh
Count Cavour
23. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Herbert Spencer
Adam Smith
Austro-Piedmontese War
English Civil War
24. 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.
Vladimir Lenin
Austro-Piedmontese War
Panther
North German Confederation
25. 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
Fabian Society
Absolutism
Enclosure movement
26. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
John Locke
Lenin and Trotsky
Friedrich Nietzsche
Continental System
27. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Treaty of Paris
Leipzig
Factory Act
Berlin Conference
28. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
John Locke
North German Confederation
Dual Monarchy
Treaty of Tilsit
29. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Dual Monarchy
Transcendentalists
Peter the Great
30. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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31. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Russo-Japanese War
Robert Koch
Benito Mussolini
32. 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.
Vichy Regime
Blaise Pascal
Benito Mussolini
Assembly of Notables
33. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Transcendentalists
Holy Alliance
Seven Year's War
34. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
X-Ray
Marie Curie
Directory
Charles Montesquieu
35. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Napoleon
Marie Curie
Charles Albert
36. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Enclosure movement
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jean Paul Marat
Enigma
37. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Joseph Stalin
Thermidorian Reaction
Edinburgh
38. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Paracelsus
Marie Curie
Absolutism
First and Second International
39. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
'Turnip' Townsend
Transcendentalists
Franco-Prussian War
Sir Francis Bacon
40. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emelyn Pugachev
Blaise Pascal
Bishop Bossuet
41. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Copernicus
Louis XIV
John F. Kennedy
42. 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)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Atlantic Charter
Benito Mussolini
Allied Powers
43. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Atlantic Charter
Johannes Kepler
Seven Weeks' War
Greek Revolution
44. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Petition of Rights
Franz Ferdinand
Labour Party
Charles Montesquieu
45. 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
Chartist Movement
Adolf Eichmann
Labour Party
Copernicus
46. 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
English Civil War
Panther
Zimmerman telegram
Copernicus
47. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Panther
Declaration of Pillnitz
Whigs
Paris Commune
48. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Catherine the Great
Red Russians
Easter Rising
First and Second International
49. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Marshall plan
Treaty of London
William and Catherine Booth
Axis Powers
50. 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.
Benito Mussolini
Lateran Pact
Bradenburg-Prussia
French Revolution of 1848
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