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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Volksgeist
Triple Alliance
Sergei Witte
Battle of the Somme
2. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Lenin and Trotsky
Franco-Prussian War
Vesalius
3. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Benito Mussolini
Panther
Reform Bill
4. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Declaration of Pillnitz
John F. Kennedy
Benito Mussolini
War of Austrian Succession
5. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Lenin and Trotsky
Soviet-Afghan War
Kronstadt
6. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Triple Entente
Ottoman empire dissolved
John Rockefeller
7. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Cecil Rhodes.
Spanish-American War
English Civil War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
8. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Vladimir Lenin
Boer War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
John Rockefeller
9. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Continental System
Thirty Years' War
Thermidor
10. 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.
Joseph II
Benjamin Disraeli
Austro-Piedmontese War
Emmanuel Sieyes
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.
Red Russians
Stalingrad
Third International
Charles Montesquieu
12. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Brezhnev Doctrine
ancien regime
Charles X
Marie Curie
13. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Third International
Paris Commune
Friedrich Nietzsche
Louis XIV
14. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Berlin Conference
Sir Francis Bacon
Holy Alliance
James Watt
15. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Labour Party
Paracelsus
vanguard
Louis Philippe I
16. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Napoleon
Red Russians
Legislative Assembly
17. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Black Shirt March
Edict of Nantes
Vesalius
Gottfried Leibniz
18. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Bishop Bossuet
Triple Entente
Enclosure movement
19. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Lusitania
Factory Act
Denis Diderot
Triple Entente
20. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Louis Philippe I
Thermidor
William Gladstone
Denis Diderot
21. 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
Jean Paul Marat
Charles Montesquieu
Herbert Spencer
Treaty of Frankfurt
22. 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.
Paris Commune
Louis XIV
French Revolution of 1848
North German Confederation
23. 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
Theodore Herzl
Allies
Treaty of London
Joseph Stalin
24. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Chartist Movement
Central Powers.
Atlantic Charter
vanguard
25. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Russian Revolution
Home Rule
Continental System
Jacobins
26. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Secularization
Central Powers.
Public Health Act
conscription
27. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Jacobins
Franco-Prussian War
Vladimir Lenin
Sir Francis Bacon
28. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Chartist Movement
Russian Revolution
Kronstadt
Zimmerman telegram
29. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Third International
Reform Bill
Emmeline Prankhurst
30. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Congress of Vienna
Francois Voltaire
X-Ray
Catherine the Great
31. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Fabian Society
Home Rule
Treaty of Frankfurt
Treaty of London
32. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Jean Paul Marat
Charles X
Bradenburg-Prussia
33. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Axis Powers
Franco-Prussian War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Bishop Bossuet
34. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Petition of Rights
Georges Jacques Danton
Factory Act
Charles X
35. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Count Cavour
Galileo Galilei
Nazi
soviets
36. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Cecil Rhodes.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Red Russians
Dulce et Decorum Est
37. A military draft
Red Russians
Seven Year's War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
conscription
38. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Secularization
Benito Mussolini
William Gladstone
39. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Quadruple Alliance
Third International
Bradenburg-Prussia
fire at the Reichstag
40. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Tories
Final Solution
Thermidor
Rene Descartes
41. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Copernicus
Secularization
Frederick the Great
British East India Company
42. 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.
Louis XIV
Francois Voltaire
Jacobins
Joseph Stalin
43. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Potsdam
Girondins
Korean War
Emelyn Pugachev
44. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Directory
Atlantic Charter
John Stuart Mill
Dulce et Decorum Est
45. 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.'
Absolutism
John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lusitania
46. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Soviet-Afghan War
Francois Voltaire
X-Ray
47. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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48. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Final Solution
Louis Philippe I
Lusitania
Concert of Europe
49. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
John Stuart Mill
Marshall plan
Catherine the Great
Reform Bill
50. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
The Glorious Revolution
Edward Gibbon
conscription
Reform Bill
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