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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Russo-Japanese War
Nazi
Charles Albert
William Gladstone
2. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Third International
Final Solution
Vesalius
3. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
English Civil War
Easter Rising
Thermidorian Reaction
4. 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
Kronstadt
Thermidorian Reaction
Atlantic Charter
William Gladstone
5. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Lusitania
Louis XIV
English Civil War
6. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Russian Revolution
Austria-Hungary
Allied Powers
7. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Paris Commune
Social Democratic Party
Vichy Regime
8. Founded the Salvation Army
Triple Entente
Franco-Prussian War
Edict of Nantes
William and Catherine Booth
9. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Marie Curie
Lateran Pact
Russo-Japanese War
Isaac Newton
10. 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.
Labour Party
Napoleon
Ferdinand VII
Black Shirt March
11. 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
conscription
Stalingrad
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Daimler and Benz
12. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Eastern Question
Louis Philippe I
Girondins
Treaty of London
13. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Berlin Conference
Heinrich Himmler
Daimler and Benz
Frederick the Great
14. (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
Count Cavour
Crimean War
John Rockefeller
15. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Edward Gibbon
Chartist Movement
Paris Commune
16. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Seven Year's War
Factory Act
War of Austrian Succession
17. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Battle of the Somme
Austro-Piedmontese War
Napoleon
Peter the Great
18. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Dual Monarchy
Public Health Act
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Piedmontese War
19. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Paracelsus
Transcendentalists
French Revolution of 1848
20. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Edmund Burke
Battle of the Somme
First and Second International
Friedrich Nietzsche
21. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Denis Diderot
Triple Alliance
Nazi
Axis Powers
22. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Andrew Carnegie
Zimmerman telegram
'Turnip' Townsend
Leipzig
23. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Thirty Years' War
Lateran Pact
Edinburgh
Stalingrad
24. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Charles X
Social Democratic Party
Robert Koch
Central Powers.
25. 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.
Thirty Years' War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Mary Wollstonecraft
26. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
The War of Jenkin's Ear
John Rockefeller
Atlantic Charter
27. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Kulaks
Daimler and Benz
John Rockefeller
Treaty of Paris
28. 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
Ferdinand VII
Louis Philippe I
The Glorious Revolution
29. 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
British East India Company
Johannes Kepler
Dutch Republic
Denis Diderot
30. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Axis Powers
Thermidor
Thermidorian Reaction
Benito Mussolini
31. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Vesalius
Edinburgh
Brezhnev Doctrine
Treaty of Tilsit
32. 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.
Revolution from Above
Adolf Eichmann
Directory
Edinburgh
33. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Catherine the Great
soviets
Count Cavour
Giueseppe Garibaldi
34. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Benjamin Disraeli
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Seven Year's War
Blaise Pascal
35. 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.
Final Solution
Crimean War
Petition of Rights
Ferdinand VII
36. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian Empire
37. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Enigma
White Russians
Absolutism
Galileo Galilei
38. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Seven Weeks' War
Edinburgh
Russo-Japanese War
39. 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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40. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Thermidorian Reaction
Seven Weeks' War
41. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Albert
Lateran Pact
X-Ray
42. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Cecil Rhodes.
Giuseppe Mazzini
43. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Russian Revolution
Sergei Witte
Joseph II
Dual Monarchy
44. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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45. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Fascist Party
Leipzig
Paracelsus
46. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Nikita Khrushchev
Continental System
Allied Powers
47. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Volksgeist
Kulaks
Vesalius
Battle of the Bulge
48. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Lusitania
Revolution from Above
Enclosure movement
Absolutism
49. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Oliver Cromwell
Whigs
Treaty of Paris
James Watt
50. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Free French
Emmeline Prankhurst
Galileo Galilei
Franz Ferdinand