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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
William and Catherine Booth
Louis XIV
Gottfried Leibniz
2. Extermination of the Jews.
Free French
Edict of Nantes
War of Austrian Succession
Final Solution
3. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Spanish Civil War
Russo-Japanese War
Final Solution
4. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Holy Alliance
Charles Montesquieu
Count Cavour
Revolution from Above
5. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Russian Revolution
Free French
Red Russians
6. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Panther
Declaration of Pillnitz
Tories
7. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Potsdam
Franz Ferdinand
Andrew Carnegie
Revolution from Above
8. 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.
Axis Powers
Girondins
Concert of Europe
John Rockefeller
9. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Dulce et Decorum Est
Paris Commune
Joseph II
10. 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
Joseph II
Marie Curie
Zimmerman telegram
Copernicus
11. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Utilitarianism
Andrew Carnegie
First and Second International
12. Founded the Salvation Army
Thomas Malthus
Quadruple Alliance
Fascist Party
William and Catherine Booth
13. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
French Revolution of 1848
Concert of Europe
Emelyn Pugachev
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
14. 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.
Kronstadt
Lateran Pact
North German Confederation
'Turnip' Townsend
15. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thermidorian Reaction
X-Ray
English Civil War
16. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Utilitarianism
Russo-Japanese War
Theodore Herzl
17. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
18. 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.
Joseph Stalin
Chartist Movement
Zimmerman telegram
Austro-Hungarian Empire
19. 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.
soviets
Fascist Party
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Black Shirt March
20. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Franco-Prussian War
vanguard
ancien regime
Benjamin Disraeli
21. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Robert Koch
Blaise Pascal
Atlantic Charter
vanguard
22. Britain and America
Theodore Herzl
Allied Powers
Petition of Rights
New Economic Policy
23. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Count Cavour
vanguard
Seven Year's War
Dulce et Decorum Est
24. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Leipzig
Battle of Adowa
Edmund Burke
Treaty of Paris
25. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Reform Bill
Congress of Vienna
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
26. 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
Benito Mussolini
John Locke
Austro-Piedmontese War
Factory Act
27. 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
Francois Voltaire
Galileo Galilei
William and Catherine Booth
Assembly of Notables
28. 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.
Fabian Society
Benjamin Disraeli
Russian Revolution
Adam Smith
29. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Oliver Cromwell
Adolf Eichmann
Battle of Adowa
James Watt
30. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
fire at the Reichstag
Bradenburg-Prussia
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giueseppe Garibaldi
31. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Potsdam
Joseph II
Third International
John Locke
32. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Free French
Charles Montesquieu
Revisionists
Boer War
33. 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.
Ptolemy
Napoleon
Thomas Malthus
Holy Alliance
34. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Warsaw Pact
William and Catherine Booth
Joseph Stalin
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
35. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Tories
Crimean War
Assembly of Notables
36. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Battle of the Somme
Emmeline Prankhurst
Battle of the Bulge
Emmanuel Sieyes
37. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Thermidorian Reaction
Fabian Society
Charles Albert
38. 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
39. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Edict of Nantes
Utilitarianism
Dulce et Decorum Est
40. 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
Declaration of Pillnitz
Potsdam
Sergei Witte
ultraroyalists
41. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Catherine the Great
Giuseppe Mazzini
French Revolution of 1848
John Stuart Mill
42. 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.
Marshall plan
Concert of Europe
Petition of Rights
Sergei Witte
43. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Mary Wollstonecraft
English Civil War
Lateran Pact
44. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Battle of the Bulge
Ptolemy
Thomas Malthus
45. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Holy Alliance
Boer War
Chartist Movement
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
46. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Austria-Hungary
Utilitarianism
Lateran Pact
47. 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
Committee of Public Safety
Concert of Europe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Treaty of Frankfurt
48. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Lateran Pact
First and Second International
Free French
49. 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.
Frederick the Great
Holy Alliance
Black Shirt March
Adolf Eichmann
50. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Assembly of Notables
John Stuart Mill
Adam Smith
Napoleon