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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Benito Mussolini
Treaty of Paris
Austria-Hungary
John Rockefeller
2. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
3. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Austria-Hungary
War of Austrian Succession
Kulaks
Adolf Eichmann
4. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Adolf Eichmann
soviets
ultraroyalists
5. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Herbert Spencer
Spanish-American War
Treaty of Paris
Frederick the Great
6. 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.
Jacobins
Allies
Thirty Years' War
Volksgeist
7. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Kulaks
Robert Koch
Gottfried Leibniz
Franz Ferdinand
8. 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.
North German Confederation
Benito Mussolini
Soviet-Afghan War
Bishop Bossuet
9. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Nazi
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enclosure movement
New Economic Policy
10. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
White Russians
'Turnip' Townsend
Marshall plan
Triple Alliance
11. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Vesalius
Edmund Burke
Enigma
12. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
Allies
Count Cavour
Seven Weeks' War
Copernicus
13. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Revisionists
Napoleon
English Civil War
Johannes Kepler
14. 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
Continental System
First and Second International
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Warsaw Pact
15. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Fabian Society
Edinburgh
Ottoman empire dissolved
16. 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.
Spanish-American War
Russian Revolution
Galileo Galilei
Franco-Prussian War
17. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
John F. Kennedy
Easter Rising
Absolutism
soviets
18. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
English Civil War
Boer War
Free French
Bishop Bossuet
19. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
William and Catherine Booth
Revisionists
Ptolemy
Red Russians
20. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Directory
Concert of Europe
Chartist Movement
21. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
John Rockefeller
Cecil Rhodes.
Edward Gibbon
22. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Treaty of Tilsit
Charles Montesquieu
The War of Jenkin's Ear
23. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Berlin Conference
Kronstadt
North German Confederation
Whigs
24. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Vichy Regime
Black Shirt March
Russo-Japanese War
25. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Marshall plan
Social Democratic Party
Ferdinand VII
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
26. 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.
Spanish Civil War
Ferdinand VII
Assembly of Notables
Frederick the Great
27. 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
War of Austrian Succession
Soviet-Afghan War
Johannes Kepler
The Glorious Revolution
28. 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
Andrew Carnegie
X-Ray
Ottoman empire dissolved
29. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Axis Powers
Vesalius
Benjamin Disraeli
Blaise Pascal
30. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Denis Diderot
Isaac Newton
Paris Commune
31. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
British East India Company
Edict of Nantes
New Economic Policy
Lenin and Trotsky
32. Extermination of the Jews.
Legislative Assembly
Committee of Public Safety
Axis Powers
Final Solution
33. 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
Revolution from Above
Jean Paul Marat
vanguard
34. 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.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Black Shirt March
Charles Montesquieu
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
35. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
French Revolution of 1848
Marie Curie
Lateran Pact
36. 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
37. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Triple Alliance
Utilitarianism
Austro-Piedmontese War
The Glorious Revolution
38. 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.
Sergei Witte
Giuseppe Mazzini
British East India Company
Giueseppe Garibaldi
39. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Daimler and Benz
Nikita Khrushchev
Charles X
40. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Nikita Khrushchev
Absolutism
Thermidor
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.
Atlantic Charter
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Catherine the Great
Edmund Burke
42. 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
soviets
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Assembly of Notables
John Locke
43. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Congress of Vienna
Vladimir Lenin
Eastern Question
44. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Emmeline Prankhurst
soviets
Thermidor
Joseph Stalin
45. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Emelyn Pugachev
Social Democratic Party
Kulaks
soviets
46. 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
North German Confederation
John Locke
Gottfried Leibniz
47. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Count Cavour
Denis Diderot
48. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Francois Voltaire
Tories
Holy Alliance
Axis Powers
49. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Paris Commune
Seven Year's War
Declaration of Pillnitz
50. 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
Quadruple Alliance
Emmanuel Sieyes
Zimmerman telegram
Volksgeist