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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Fascist Party
James Watt
Treaty of Tilsit
Transcendentalists
2. 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
Declaration of Pillnitz
John Locke
Napoleon
3. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Girondins
Nazi
Napoleon
4. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Concert of Europe
Giuseppe Mazzini
Red Russians
Revolution from Above
5. 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.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Catherine the Great
John F. Kennedy
Galileo Galilei
6. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Thermidorian Reaction
Volksgeist
Thomas Malthus
7. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Ptolemy
Panther
Friedrich Nietzsche
Battle of the Somme
8. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Herbert Spencer
Kronstadt
Emelyn Pugachev
9. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
10. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
ultraroyalists
Battle of Adowa
Frederick the Great
Volksgeist
11. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Bradenburg-Prussia
Dulce et Decorum Est
Austro-Piedmontese War
12. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Allies
ultraroyalists
Adam Smith
Berlin Conference
13. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Public Health Act
Assembly of Notables
Fabian Society
John Locke
14. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Bishop Bossuet
Final Solution
Free French
Cecil Rhodes.
15. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Peter the Great
Kulaks
16. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Frankfurt
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Count Cavour
17. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Soviet-Afghan War
Thermidorian Reaction
Joseph II
18. 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
Battle of the Somme
Secularization
John Locke
Edict of Nantes
19. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Russo-Japanese War
Atlantic Charter
X-Ray
Utilitarianism
20. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Berlin Conference
Johannes Kepler
Fascist Party
John Rockefeller
21. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Eastern Question
Revolution from Above
Ottoman empire dissolved
fire at the Reichstag
22. A military draft
Vladimir Lenin
The War of Jenkin's Ear
conscription
Adolf Eichmann
23. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Girondins
Charles Montesquieu
Giuseppe Mazzini
Jacobins
24. 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
Copernicus
Nazi
Francois Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
25. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
X-Ray
The Glorious Revolution
Enclosure movement
Dulce et Decorum Est
26. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Seven Year's War
Petition of Rights
Edinburgh
Lusitania
27. 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
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vesalius
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Thermidorian Reaction
28. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Triple Alliance
Friedrich Nietzsche
Herbert Spencer
29. 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.
Lateran Pact
John Locke
Seven Weeks' War
Russo-Japanese War
30. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Quadruple Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
'Turnip' Townsend
31. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Crimean War
Louis Philippe I
Count Cavour
Treaty of Paris
32. 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
Public Health Act
Sergei Witte
Georges Jacques Danton
33. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Tories
Enclosure movement
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jacobins
34. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Dutch Republic
ultraroyalists
William Gladstone
John Stuart Mill
35. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Blaise Pascal
fire at the Reichstag
William Gladstone
Seven Year's War
36. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Eastern Question
Ferdinand VII
Atlantic Charter
Home Rule
37. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
ancien regime
Leipzig
Dual Monarchy
Franz Ferdinand
38. 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
Volksgeist
Georges Jacques Danton
Nikita Khrushchev
Copernicus
39. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Revisionists
The Glorious Revolution
ultraroyalists
40. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Stalingrad
Concert of Europe
War of Austrian Succession
41. 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
William Gladstone
Count Cavour
Joseph Stalin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
42. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Gottfried Leibniz
Assembly of Notables
Korean War
Whigs
43. Britain and America
Final Solution
Allied Powers
Joseph II
Benjamin Disraeli
44. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Frankfurt
Lateran Pact
45. 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.
Georges Jacques Danton
Blaise Pascal
Dual Monarchy
Andrew Carnegie
46. 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.
Sergei Witte
Dutch Republic
Battle of the Bulge
Charles X
47. Soviet counterpart to NATO
New Economic Policy
Friedrich Nietzsche
British East India Company
Warsaw Pact
48. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Louis XIV
Vesalius
49. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Nazi
Eastern Question
Revisionists
50. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
Allied Powers
Triple Entente
Denis Diderot