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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Petition of Rights
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Bradenburg-Prussia
Vladimir Lenin
2. 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.
Treaty of Paris
Oliver Cromwell
Ferdinand VII
Petition of Rights
3. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Soviet-Afghan War
New Economic Policy
Nikita Khrushchev
4. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Blaise Pascal
Vladimir Lenin
Volksgeist
Isaac Newton
5. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Stalingrad
Lenin and Trotsky
Central Powers.
Reform Bill
6. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French Revolution of 1848
Peter the Great
Lateran Pact
7. 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.
Volksgeist
Factory Act
Seven Weeks' War
Charles X
8. 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
Joseph II
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Girondins
Vichy Regime
9. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Tories
ancien regime
Treaty of London
Louis Philippe I
10. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Warsaw Pact
Sergei Witte
Vesalius
Jacobins
11. 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
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12. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Legislative Assembly
Treaty of London
Denis Diderot
13. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Public Health Act
Ptolemy
Continental System
14. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Copernicus
Declaration of Pillnitz
Adam Smith
15. 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.
War of Austrian Succession
John F. Kennedy
Frederick the Great
Allied Powers
16. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Warsaw Pact
British East India Company
17. 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.'
Triple Alliance
Charles Albert
Thomas Malthus
Mary Wollstonecraft
18. 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
Warsaw Pact
Battle of the Bulge
Rene Descartes
19. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
conscription
Charles Albert
Austria-Hungary
20. 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
Korean War
Bradenburg-Prussia
Zimmerman telegram
Thirty Years' War
21. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Soviet-Afghan War
Paracelsus
Thomas Malthus
Volksgeist
22. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
vanguard
Third International
Thomas Malthus
23. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Greek Revolution
James Watt
fire at the Reichstag
Transcendentalists
24. 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
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Reform Bill
English Civil War
25. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Rene Descartes
Nazi
Bishop Bossuet
Girondins
26. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
John Rockefeller
Factory Act
Boer War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
27. 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.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Cecil Rhodes.
Sergei Witte
28. 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
Allies
Marshall plan
Korean War
29. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Gottfried Leibniz
Ptolemy
Volksgeist
30. 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
Absolutism
White Russians
Johannes Kepler
31. 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.
Johannes Kepler
Quadruple Alliance
New Economic Policy
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
32. 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.
Korean War
Reform Bill
Russian Revolution
Bradenburg-Prussia
33. 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
Axis Powers
John Locke
Jean Paul Marat
Spanish-American War
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.
Edinburgh
Black Shirt March
Thermidor
Johannes Kepler
35. A Jewish British prime minister.
Greek Revolution
Johannes Kepler
Benjamin Disraeli
Edinburgh
36. A military draft
conscription
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of London
Nikita Khrushchev
37. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Marie Curie
Triple Entente
Adam Smith
Steel
38. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Battle of the Somme
Warsaw Pact
Emmeline Prankhurst
39. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles X
Benito Mussolini
Stalingrad
40. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Francois Voltaire
Ferdinand VII
Chartist Movement
41. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Russian Revolution
Crimean War
'Turnip' Townsend
Kulaks
42. 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.
Fabian Society
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Paris Commune
Crimean War
43. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Triple Alliance
Utilitarianism
Ottoman empire dissolved
Social Democratic Party
44. 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
Potsdam
Benjamin Disraeli
Committee of Public Safety
Red Russians
45. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Third International
Revolution from Above
Labour Party
Friedrich Nietzsche
46. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Isaac Newton
Reform Bill
Treaty of Frankfurt
Dual Monarchy
47. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Declaration of Pillnitz
Boer War
Gottfried Leibniz
48. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Battle of Adowa
Soviet-Afghan War
Napoleon
49. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Rene Descartes
Allied Powers
Holy Alliance
50. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Final Solution
Austro-Piedmontese War
Greek Revolution
Oliver Cromwell