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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Chartist Movement
Charles X
William Gladstone
Social Democratic Party
2. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Holy Alliance
ancien regime
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Secularization
Declaration of Pillnitz
Jean Paul Marat
Austria-Hungary
4. 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.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Labour Party
Joseph II
Thomas Malthus
5. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Potsdam
Ferdinand VII
Red Russians
Emelyn Pugachev
6. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Allies
Leipzig
Battle of the Bulge
7. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Girondins
Edict of Nantes
Count Cavour
8. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Committee of Public Safety
vanguard
English Civil War
9. 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.
Utilitarianism
Giuseppe Mazzini
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Edict of Nantes
10. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Kulaks
Dual Monarchy
Kronstadt
Joseph Stalin
11. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Third International
ancien regime
Concert of Europe
12. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
White Russians
Panther
Absolutism
13. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Jacobins
X-Ray
Triple Alliance
Dulce et Decorum Est
14. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Holy Alliance
Lateran Pact
Giuseppe Mazzini
Factory Act
15. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Thirty Years' War
Directory
Giuseppe Mazzini
Enigma
16. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Battle of the Bulge
Assembly of Notables
Central Powers.
17. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Herbert Spencer
Bishop Bossuet
Fabian Society
18. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
James Watt
Allied Powers
Emelyn Pugachev
19. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Charles Albert
Edinburgh
Brezhnev Doctrine
Public Health Act
20. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Holy Alliance
Franz Ferdinand
Fascist Party
Absolutism
21. Important ZIONIST.
Frederick the Great
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Benito Mussolini
Theodore Herzl
22. 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.
Herbert Spencer
conscription
Crimean War
Chartist Movement
23. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Russian Revolution
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Factory Act
Treaty of Paris
24. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Tories
Greek Revolution
Bishop Bossuet
25. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Isaac Newton
John Stuart Mill
Theodore Herzl
Benjamin Disraeli
26. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Eastern Question
Ptolemy
Edict of Nantes
Greek Revolution
27. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Nazi
Vesalius
Treaty of Paris
Lenin and Trotsky
28. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Edinburgh
Louis Philippe I
Atlantic Charter
29. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
ancien regime
Tories
Paracelsus
John Locke
30. Discovered radium.
Marie Curie
Emmeline Prankhurst
Lateran Pact
Assembly of Notables
31. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Cecil Rhodes.
Reform Bill
Chartist Movement
32. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Petition of Rights
Concert of Europe
Social Democratic Party
33. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Isaac Newton
Fabian Society
Joseph Stalin
34. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Adolf Eichmann
Gottfried Leibniz
Leipzig
35. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Volksgeist
Marshall plan
English Civil War
36. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Edict of Nantes
Zimmerman telegram
Louis Philippe I
37. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Seven Year's War
Napoleon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
38. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Benjamin Disraeli
Directory
Count Cavour
Absolutism
39. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Crimean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Joseph Stalin
Emmeline Prankhurst
40. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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41. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Battle of the Bulge
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Eastern Question
Thirty Years' War
42. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
conscription
Utilitarianism
Thermidorian Reaction
Galileo Galilei
43. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
White Russians
Brezhnev Doctrine
Adolf Eichmann
Dutch Republic
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
Oliver Cromwell
Joseph Stalin
Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Adowa
45. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Directory
Austria-Hungary
Crimean War
Whigs
46. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Marie Curie
William and Catherine Booth
Denis Diderot
Giueseppe Garibaldi
47. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Franz Ferdinand
Sir Francis Bacon
Thermidorian Reaction
48. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
X-Ray
Enclosure movement
Nikita Khrushchev
Kulaks
49. 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
Brezhnev Doctrine
Emmanuel Sieyes
Congress of Vienna
Isaac Newton
50. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Whigs
Austro-Piedmontese War
Assembly of Notables
Count Cavour