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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Kronstadt
Andrew Carnegie
Social Democratic Party
2. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Nikita Khrushchev
Petition of Rights
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
English Civil War
Francois Voltaire
Peter the Great
Blaise Pascal
4. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Petition of Rights
Thirty Years' War
Battle of the Somme
5. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Paris Commune
Easter Rising
New Economic Policy
6. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Leipzig
Vesalius
Stalingrad
7. 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.
Marshall plan
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Eastern Question
Marie Curie
8. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Benito Mussolini
Giuseppe Mazzini
Home Rule
Stalingrad
9. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Factory Act
Emmeline Prankhurst
Concert of Europe
10. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Denis Diderot
Revisionists
Emelyn Pugachev
Emmanuel Sieyes
11. 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
Labour Party
Factory Act
White Russians
12. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Bishop Bossuet
Whigs
Joseph Stalin
Gottfried Leibniz
13. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Treaty of Tilsit
William and Catherine Booth
Emmeline Prankhurst
Brezhnev Doctrine
14. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Committee of Public Safety
Edinburgh
Gottfried Leibniz
15. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Absolutism
English Civil War
Edmund Burke
James Watt
16. 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)
fire at the Reichstag
Blaise Pascal
Benito Mussolini
Enigma
17. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Peter the Great
Legislative Assembly
Nazi
Dulce et Decorum Est
18. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
Boer War
Home Rule
19. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Seven Weeks' War
Edict of Nantes
Battle of Adowa
20. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Reform Bill
Austria-Hungary
Potsdam
21. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Bradenburg-Prussia
Chartist Movement
John Locke
Warsaw Pact
22. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Vesalius
Axis Powers
Thermidorian Reaction
23. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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24. 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
Congress of Vienna
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sergei Witte
Fascist Party
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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Emmeline Prankhurst
Adam Smith
Austria-Hungary
26. 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.
Factory Act
Fascist Party
Fabian Society
Dutch Republic
27. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Rene Descartes
Sir Francis Bacon
Andrew Carnegie
Isaac Newton
28. Discovered radium.
Marie Curie
conscription
Seven Weeks' War
The Glorious Revolution
29. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Thermidor
Greek Revolution
Battle of the Bulge
Joseph II
30. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Battle of the Somme
fire at the Reichstag
New Economic Policy
31. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
ancien regime
Stalingrad
Soviet-Afghan War
Chartist Movement
32. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Fabian Society
Kulaks
Whigs
Continental System
33. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Public Health Act
soviets
Thomas Malthus
John Stuart Mill
34. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Edinburgh
Triple Entente
Crimean War
35. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Gottfried Leibniz
Panther
French Revolution of 1848
British East India Company
36. 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.
British East India Company
Triple Alliance
Joseph II
First and Second International
37. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Edict of Nantes
Austria-Hungary
Enclosure movement
Allies
38. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Thomas Malthus
Robert Koch
Allied Powers
39. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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40. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Emmeline Prankhurst
Nazi
ancien regime
41. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Isaac Newton
Daimler and Benz
Brezhnev Doctrine
42. (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
Triple Entente
John Rockefeller
Axis Powers
War of Austrian Succession
43. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Isaac Newton
Dual Monarchy
Crimean War
Adam Smith
44. Britain and America
Continental System
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stalingrad
Allied Powers
45. 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
Treaty of Paris
Enigma
Count Cavour
Thermidorian Reaction
46. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Crimean War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Russo-Japanese War
47. 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
White Russians
Lateran Pact
Revolution from Above
Jean Paul Marat
48. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Mary Wollstonecraft
Triple Alliance
Ferdinand VII
Assembly of Notables
49. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Allies
Ferdinand VII
Dutch Republic
50. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Dutch Republic
Paracelsus
Leipzig
Soviet-Afghan War