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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Social Democratic Party
Holy Alliance
Charles Montesquieu
Home Rule
2. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Treaty of London
Committee of Public Safety
Transcendentalists
Concert of Europe
3. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Daimler and Benz
James Watt
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
4. 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)
William Gladstone
Benito Mussolini
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Transcendentalists
5. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Free French
Bradenburg-Prussia
Vichy Regime
Petition of Rights
6. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Eastern Question
Benito Mussolini
Korean War
Austro-Piedmontese War
7. 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
Panther
Robert Koch
vanguard
8. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Absolutism
Committee of Public Safety
Sergei Witte
9. A military draft
Joseph Stalin
conscription
Continental System
Gottfried Leibniz
10. 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.
John Stuart Mill
Fascist Party
Soviet-Afghan War
Boer War
11. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Thermidor
Home Rule
Ferdinand VII
John Stuart Mill
12. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Russo-Japanese War
Sir Francis Bacon
Reform Bill
Final Solution
13. 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.
Volksgeist
Catherine the Great
Enigma
Nazi
14. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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15. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Adam Smith
Committee of Public Safety
Triple Alliance
Blaise Pascal
16. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Spanish-American War
Vesalius
Sir Francis Bacon
17. Founded the Salvation Army
Transcendentalists
Absolutism
Adam Smith
William and Catherine Booth
18. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
William Gladstone
Lusitania
Third International
Easter Rising
19. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Eastern Question
Blaise Pascal
Louis XIV
20. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Committee of Public Safety
Free French
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
21. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Greek Revolution
Catherine the Great
Red Russians
Sergei Witte
22. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Triple Entente
Warsaw Pact
23. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Napoleon
Vichy Regime
Free French
Andrew Carnegie
24. 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.
Stalingrad
Crimean War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Chartist Movement
25. 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
Austria-Hungary
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Lusitania
Labour Party
26. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Nazi
Charles X
Allies
Johannes Kepler
27. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Committee of Public Safety
Paracelsus
Nazi
Holy Alliance
28. 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.
Concert of Europe
Emmanuel Sieyes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Austro-Hungarian Empire
29. 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.
Edward Gibbon
Austro-Piedmontese War
Black Shirt March
Red Russians
30. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Cecil Rhodes.
Central Powers.
Utilitarianism
Dual Monarchy
31. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Dual Monarchy
Vesalius
Catherine the Great
Eastern Question
32. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Sir Francis Bacon
Franco-Prussian War
English Civil War
Ptolemy
33. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
conscription
Concert of Europe
Whigs
Heinrich Himmler
34. 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.
Catherine the Great
Seven Year's War
Absolutism
Frederick the Great
35. 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.
Spanish Civil War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Louis XIV
Enclosure movement
36. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Korean War
Kulaks
Peter the Great
English Civil War
37. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Herbert Spencer
Axis Powers
Edinburgh
38. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Nikita Khrushchev
Home Rule
Potsdam
John F. Kennedy
39. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Sergei Witte
Louis XIV
Thermidor
Charles Albert
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. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
ultraroyalists
Utilitarianism
Ptolemy
Edict of Nantes
42. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Quadruple Alliance
Bradenburg-Prussia
conscription
Whigs
43. 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
Allied Powers
James Watt
Panther
John Locke
44. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Utilitarianism
Panther
Edinburgh
Declaration of Pillnitz
45. 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.
Black Shirt March
Concert of Europe
Treaty of Tilsit
Lusitania
46. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Social Democratic Party
Russo-Japanese War
Revisionists
47. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Emmanuel Sieyes
Rene Descartes
John Locke
48. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Revisionists
Heinrich Himmler
Count Cavour
Continental System
49. 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
conscription
Francois Voltaire
Continental System
Spanish-American War
50. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Home Rule
Kulaks
Spanish-American War
Public Health Act