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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Legislative Assembly
Herbert Spencer
Emmanuel Sieyes
2. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Red Russians
Thermidorian Reaction
Franco-Prussian War
Home Rule
3. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Axis Powers
Napoleon
Chartist Movement
4. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Rene Descartes
Atlantic Charter
Dual Monarchy
Lenin and Trotsky
5. 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.
Fascist Party
Treaty of Tilsit
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Enigma
6. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Treaty of London
Edict of Nantes
John Stuart Mill
Denis Diderot
7. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Potsdam
Russo-Japanese War
Jacobins
8. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
William and Catherine Booth
Russo-Japanese War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Ottoman empire dissolved
9. Britain and America
Volksgeist
Allied Powers
Brezhnev Doctrine
Triple Entente
10. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Kronstadt
Heinrich Himmler
Louis XIV
Ptolemy
11. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Edinburgh
Soviet-Afghan War
Home Rule
fire at the Reichstag
12. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
New Economic Policy
Kulaks
Legislative Assembly
13. 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.
Girondins
Spanish-American War
Marie Curie
Louis XIV
14. 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
Bradenburg-Prussia
Treaty of Paris
Daimler and Benz
Spanish Civil War
15. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Boer War
Absolutism
Fascist Party
16. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Thermidorian Reaction
Zimmerman telegram
Fascist Party
Giueseppe Garibaldi
17. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Easter Rising
French Revolution of 1848
Treaty of Frankfurt
18. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Revisionists
Daimler and Benz
Battle of the Bulge
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
19. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Robert Koch
Central Powers.
Joseph II
Austria-Hungary
20. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Lateran Pact
John Rockefeller
Treaty of Frankfurt
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
21. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Tories
Louis Philippe I
Absolutism
Spanish-American War
22. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
William Gladstone
Boer War
Daimler and Benz
Dulce et Decorum Est
23. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Bradenburg-Prussia
Eastern Question
Robert Koch
24. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Atlantic Charter
ultraroyalists
Sir Francis Bacon
Friedrich Nietzsche
25. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Emmanuel Sieyes
Bradenburg-Prussia
Treaty of Paris
26. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Secularization
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Thermidorian Reaction
27. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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28. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Red Russians
Spanish Civil War
Reform Bill
29. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Edward Gibbon
Charles X
Brezhnev Doctrine
Potsdam
30. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Eastern Question
William and Catherine Booth
Easter Rising
Emmeline Prankhurst
31. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Dutch Republic
Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles X
ultraroyalists
32. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Georges Jacques Danton
Holy Alliance
Blaise Pascal
Benjamin Disraeli
33. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
French Revolution of 1848
Declaration of Pillnitz
Giuseppe Mazzini
34. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Allies
Francois Voltaire
Dutch Republic
Marshall plan
35. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Nazi
Zimmerman telegram
Public Health Act
36. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Heinrich Himmler
Home Rule
Black Shirt March
37. 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
Count Cavour
Joseph Stalin
Whigs
Adam Smith
38. 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
Easter Rising
Tories
Denis Diderot
John Locke
39. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Austria-Hungary
First and Second International
Emmanuel Sieyes
ancien regime
40. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Battle of the Somme
Chartist Movement
Sir Francis Bacon
Dulce et Decorum Est
41. 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
Lateran Pact
Dutch Republic
Thomas Malthus
Battle of Adowa
42. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Edinburgh
Revolution from Above
Giuseppe Mazzini
43. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Triple Alliance
Secularization
Rene Descartes
James Watt
44. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
'Turnip' Townsend
vanguard
Volksgeist
Lenin and Trotsky
45. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Joseph II
Kronstadt
Atlantic Charter
46. 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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47. 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
Francois Voltaire
Benjamin Disraeli
Zimmerman telegram
English Civil War
48. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
War of Austrian Succession
Franz Ferdinand
Isaac Newton
Thermidorian Reaction
49. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Tories
Charles Montesquieu
John F. Kennedy
Count Cavour
50. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Georges Jacques Danton
William and Catherine Booth
Lenin and Trotsky