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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
John Locke
Ptolemy
Battle of the Somme
Franco-Prussian War
2. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
William and Catherine Booth
Marshall plan
Boer War
3. A military draft
William and Catherine Booth
conscription
Russian Revolution
Korean War
4. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Charles Montesquieu
John F. Kennedy
Home Rule
5. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
conscription
Oliver Cromwell
Gottfried Leibniz
Declaration of Pillnitz
6. 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
Revolution from Above
Copernicus
Volksgeist
Vichy Regime
7. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Public Health Act
Potsdam
Kulaks
Committee of Public Safety
8. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Social Democratic Party
Fabian Society
Friedrich Nietzsche
Denis Diderot
9. Discovered radium.
Committee of Public Safety
Thermidorian Reaction
Marie Curie
Eastern Question
10. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Allied Powers
Nazi
Vichy Regime
Assembly of Notables
11. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Robert Koch
Social Democratic Party
Spanish-American War
Treaty of Frankfurt
12. 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
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13. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Steel
Secularization
Rene Descartes
Enigma
14. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
John Locke
Adolf Eichmann
soviets
15. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Lenin and Trotsky
Count Cavour
Nikita Khrushchev
16. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Marie Curie
Johannes Kepler
Daimler and Benz
French Revolution of 1848
17. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
William and Catherine Booth
Assembly of Notables
Treaty of Paris
New Economic Policy
18. 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.
Transcendentalists
Edinburgh
Frederick the Great
Enclosure movement
19. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Spanish Civil War
Lenin and Trotsky
Concert of Europe
Bishop Bossuet
20. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Steel
Transcendentalists
Red Russians
21. 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
Public Health Act
Russian Revolution
Zimmerman telegram
War of Austrian Succession
22. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
conscription
soviets
Public Health Act
Emmanuel Sieyes
23. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Benjamin Disraeli
Gottfried Leibniz
Boer War
Lateran Pact
24. 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
Russo-Japanese War
Adolf Eichmann
Thermidorian Reaction
Public Health Act
25. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Andrew Carnegie
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Fabian Society
Central Powers.
26. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Battle of Adowa
Eastern Question
Panther
Bishop Bossuet
27. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
North German Confederation
Frederick the Great
Edmund Burke
Labour Party
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).
Dutch Republic
Georges Jacques Danton
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Ptolemy
29. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Galileo Galilei
Greek Revolution
Kronstadt
Vichy Regime
30. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
North German Confederation
ancien regime
Peter the Great
31. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Charles Albert
Sergei Witte
Boer War
32. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Assembly of Notables
Warsaw Pact
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Transcendentalists
33. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Axis Powers
Gottfried Leibniz
Benito Mussolini
34. Important ZIONIST.
Vladimir Lenin
Franz Ferdinand
Russo-Japanese War
Theodore Herzl
35. 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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36. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Treaty of Paris
Theodore Herzl
Sir Francis Bacon
37. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Sergei Witte
Lenin and Trotsky
Congress of Vienna
Revisionists
38. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Revisionists
Absolutism
Benjamin Disraeli
Austria-Hungary
39. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Galileo Galilei
Treaty of London
Louis XIV
Thirty Years' War
40. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Benjamin Disraeli
Zimmerman telegram
Franz Ferdinand
Francois Voltaire
41. 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.
Vichy Regime
Peter the Great
Cecil Rhodes.
Atlantic Charter
42. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Directory
Boer War
Paris Commune
43. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Edict of Nantes
Giueseppe Garibaldi
X-Ray
44. 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.
Charles X
Panther
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Denis Diderot
45. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
War of Austrian Succession
Final Solution
Central Powers.
Secularization
46. 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.
Factory Act
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Treaty of Frankfurt
British East India Company
47. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Secularization
Bradenburg-Prussia
Tories
ancien regime
48. 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
Treaty of Paris
Labour Party
Giuseppe Mazzini
49. Founded the Salvation Army
The Glorious Revolution
Battle of Adowa
Rene Descartes
William and Catherine Booth
50. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Heinrich Himmler
Paris Commune
Marshall plan
Joseph Stalin