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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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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2. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Kulaks
conscription
Red Russians
Seven Weeks' War
3. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
The Glorious Revolution
Volksgeist
Theodore Herzl
Thermidor
4. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Boer War
Charles X
Free French
Robert Koch
5. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
French Revolution of 1848
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
6. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Russo-Japanese War
Galileo Galilei
Black Shirt March
Emmanuel Sieyes
7. 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.
Marshall plan
Charles Albert
Dutch Republic
Holy Alliance
8. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Herbert Spencer
Sergei Witte
Charles Albert
Seven Year's War
9. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Volksgeist
Charles Albert
Concert of Europe
Ferdinand VII
10. 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.
Louis XIV
'Turnip' Townsend
Emelyn Pugachev
Warsaw Pact
11. 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.
Greek Revolution
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Warsaw Pact
12. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Free French
Congress of Vienna
The War of Jenkin's Ear
13. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
New Economic Policy
Battle of the Somme
Public Health Act
Berlin Conference
14. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Greek Revolution
Sergei Witte
Absolutism
15. 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
Tories
Charles X
Copernicus
Boer War
16. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Lateran Pact
Adolf Eichmann
Thomas Malthus
Heinrich Himmler
17. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Lenin and Trotsky
Brezhnev Doctrine
Soviet-Afghan War
18. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Warsaw Pact
Black Shirt March
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Triple Entente
19. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Allies
Assembly of Notables
Edmund Burke
Bradenburg-Prussia
20. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Bishop Bossuet
Panther
Georges Jacques Danton
Revolution from Above
21. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Black Shirt March
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
John Stuart Mill
22. 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
Marie Curie
Nazi
Sir Francis Bacon
23. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Battle of the Somme
Charles X
Adam Smith
24. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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25. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Edict of Nantes
Dual Monarchy
John F. Kennedy
William Gladstone
26. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
White Russians
Russo-Japanese War
conscription
Lenin and Trotsky
27. 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.
Reform Bill
Concert of Europe
White Russians
Treaty of Paris
28. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Dulce et Decorum Est
Blaise Pascal
Leipzig
29. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Potsdam
Spanish-American War
Emmanuel Sieyes
Ptolemy
30. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
War of Austrian Succession
William and Catherine Booth
Theodore Herzl
31. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Revisionists
Galileo Galilei
Girondins
Giueseppe Garibaldi
32. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Kronstadt
Allies
Russo-Japanese War
Emelyn Pugachev
33. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Lateran Pact
Chartist Movement
Francois Voltaire
Dual Monarchy
34. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Emmanuel Sieyes
John Rockefeller
Social Democratic Party
White Russians
35. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Final Solution
Jacobins
White Russians
Nazi
36. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Dutch Republic
Vesalius
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of Adowa
37. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Revolution from Above
Treaty of Frankfurt
Kulaks
38. Extermination of the Jews.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Final Solution
Spanish-American War
Thomas Malthus
39. 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.
Volksgeist
British East India Company
Ferdinand VII
Potsdam
40. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Spanish Civil War
Cecil Rhodes.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Directory
41. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Sir Francis Bacon
Russo-Japanese War
Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
British East India Company
Zimmerman telegram
Panther
Continental System
43. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Joseph Stalin
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Andrew Carnegie
44. 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
Marie Curie
Sergei Witte
Thermidorian Reaction
John Stuart Mill
45. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Joseph Stalin
Emelyn Pugachev
Franco-Prussian War
Committee of Public Safety
46. 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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47. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Committee of Public Safety
Benjamin Disraeli
48. 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.
Third International
Social Democratic Party
Public Health Act
Oliver Cromwell
49. Germany - Italy - and Japan
fire at the Reichstag
Axis Powers
Allies
William and Catherine Booth
50. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Berlin Conference
Factory Act
ultraroyalists
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact