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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Committee of Public Safety
Enigma
Kulaks
Treaty of Frankfurt
2. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Charles X
Louis Philippe I
Emmanuel Sieyes
Joseph Stalin
3. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Vichy Regime
Enigma
Charles Albert
North German Confederation
4. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Peter the Great
Emmanuel Sieyes
Legislative Assembly
5. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Thermidorian Reaction
Emmanuel Sieyes
Robert Koch
Committee of Public Safety
6. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Easter Rising
Home Rule
ultraroyalists
Committee of Public Safety
7. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Marie Curie
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Home Rule
Denis Diderot
8. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Girondins
Edmund Burke
Edict of Nantes
9. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Cecil Rhodes.
Absolutism
Paracelsus
John F. Kennedy
10. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Kronstadt
James Watt
Edict of Nantes
11. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Marie Curie
Utilitarianism
Francois Voltaire
12. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Legislative Assembly
Copernicus
Black Shirt March
Spanish Civil War
13. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Vladimir Lenin
Third International
Nikita Khrushchev
Austria-Hungary
14. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Marie Curie
conscription
Transcendentalists
15. 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.
Jacobins
British East India Company
Edmund Burke
North German Confederation
16. 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.
ultraroyalists
'Turnip' Townsend
Marshall plan
Petition of Rights
17. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Charles Albert
Berlin Conference
Ptolemy
vanguard
18. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Quadruple Alliance
Dutch Republic
Girondins
Galileo Galilei
19. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Count Cavour
Seven Year's War
Ptolemy
20. 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
Galileo Galilei
Oliver Cromwell
Adolf Eichmann
21. 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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Fascist Party
Declaration of Pillnitz
22. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Transcendentalists
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bradenburg-Prussia
23. 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
Gottfried Leibniz
ultraroyalists
Adolf Eichmann
24. 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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Galileo Galilei
Zimmerman telegram
Enclosure movement
25. 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.
Joseph Stalin
Frederick the Great
Denis Diderot
Triple Alliance
26. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Revisionists
Charles X
Battle of the Bulge
27. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
White Russians
Treaty of Frankfurt
Tories
Zimmerman telegram
28. Discovered radium.
Allied Powers
Marie Curie
English Civil War
Treaty of Paris
29. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Paris Commune
French Revolution of 1848
vanguard
30. 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.
Paris Commune
John Locke
Treaty of Frankfurt
Oliver Cromwell
31. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Marie Curie
Black Shirt March
Vladimir Lenin
32. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Sergei Witte
Rene Descartes
ancien regime
Whigs
33. 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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34. 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.
Austria-Hungary
French Revolution of 1848
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bishop Bossuet
35. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Austro-Hungarian Empire
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Herzl
36. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
North German Confederation
Copernicus
British East India Company
37. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Ptolemy
Assembly of Notables
Robert Koch
Vesalius
38. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
New Economic Policy
Count Cavour
Volksgeist
Enigma
39. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Franco-Prussian War
Heinrich Himmler
Bradenburg-Prussia
Axis Powers
40. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Thirty Years' War
Andrew Carnegie
soviets
Dual Monarchy
41. 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.
Catherine the Great
Seven Year's War
Berlin Conference
James Watt
42. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
William Gladstone
Enigma
Oliver Cromwell
Red Russians
43. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
John Stuart Mill
James Watt
English Civil War
44. 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.
Utilitarianism
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Continental System
Gottfried Leibniz
45. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Easter Rising
Andrew Carnegie
Spanish-American War
46. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Catherine the Great
Emelyn Pugachev
Rene Descartes
47. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Panther
Napoleon
Whigs
Nikita Khrushchev
48. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Holy Alliance
Easter Rising
Eastern Question
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
49. (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
Benjamin Disraeli
Assembly of Notables
Spanish Civil War
50. 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
English Civil War
Copernicus
Thermidorian Reaction
Third International