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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Warsaw Pact
Seven Weeks' War
Russo-Japanese War
Zimmerman telegram
2. 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.'
vanguard
Mary Wollstonecraft
White Russians
Spanish-American War
3. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Third International
Vichy Regime
Dulce et Decorum Est
Enclosure movement
4. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Allies
Continental System
Rene Descartes
Central Powers.
5. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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6. 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
Edinburgh
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Tories
7. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Treaty of Tilsit
Andrew Carnegie
War of Austrian Succession
Revisionists
8. 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.
Third International
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Transcendentalists
Panther
9. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Blaise Pascal
Axis Powers
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vichy Regime
10. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Public Health Act
Adolf Eichmann
Soviet-Afghan War
Warsaw Pact
11. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Marie Curie
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Emmanuel Sieyes
12. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Whigs
Edinburgh
Marie Curie
Paris Commune
13. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Benito Mussolini
Red Russians
Transcendentalists
John Stuart Mill
14. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Thirty Years' War
Continental System
Friedrich Nietzsche
15. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Friedrich Nietzsche
Emmanuel Sieyes
ultraroyalists
16. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
The Glorious Revolution
Revolution from Above
Adolf Eichmann
17. 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.
Factory Act
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
X-Ray
Fascist Party
18. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Frederick the Great
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Charles Montesquieu
Jean Paul Marat
19. A Jewish British prime minister.
The Glorious Revolution
Potsdam
Quadruple Alliance
Benjamin Disraeli
20. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Isaac Newton
Boer War
Leipzig
Charles Albert
21. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Free French
Isaac Newton
Third International
Thermidor
22. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Jean Paul Marat
Emmeline Prankhurst
French Revolution of 1848
23. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Malthus
Kulaks
Isaac Newton
24. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Lusitania
The Glorious Revolution
Gottfried Leibniz
Ottoman empire dissolved
25. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Petition of Rights
Utilitarianism
Vichy Regime
Austro-Piedmontese War
26. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Treaty of Frankfurt
Factory Act
Treaty of Paris
27. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Count Cavour
Warsaw Pact
Louis XIV
Kronstadt
28. 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.
Social Democratic Party
'Turnip' Townsend
Count Cavour
Oliver Cromwell
29. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Final Solution
Battle of the Bulge
Austria-Hungary
Treaty of Paris
30. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Steel
vanguard
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Crimean War
31. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Directory
X-Ray
Declaration of Pillnitz
First and Second International
32. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Austria-Hungary
Public Health Act
Triple Entente
Whigs
33. Discovered radium.
Marie Curie
Committee of Public Safety
Battle of Adowa
Black Shirt March
34. 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.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Treaty of Tilsit
Louis Philippe I
Bradenburg-Prussia
35. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Zimmerman telegram
Soviet-Afghan War
Daimler and Benz
Isaac Newton
36. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
37. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Boer War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Galileo Galilei
Count Cavour
38. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Jacobins
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Benito Mussolini
39. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Allies
Brezhnev Doctrine
Home Rule
40. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Ferdinand VII
Atlantic Charter
Joseph II
Franz Ferdinand
41. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Benjamin Disraeli
Easter Rising
Concert of Europe
North German Confederation
42. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Allies
Bishop Bossuet
Robert Koch
43. 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.
Daimler and Benz
Allied Powers
Holy Alliance
Mary Wollstonecraft
44. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Cecil Rhodes.
Axis Powers
Emmeline Prankhurst
Easter Rising
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
Korean War
Benjamin Disraeli
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
46. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
British East India Company
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jean Paul Marat
Napoleon
47. 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.
Fabian Society
Emelyn Pugachev
Allied Powers
Petition of Rights
48. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
New Economic Policy
Directory
James Watt
49. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Ferdinand VII
Soviet-Afghan War
Thirty Years' War
50. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Galileo Galilei
Committee of Public Safety
Charles Montesquieu
Sir Francis Bacon