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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.'
Emmeline Prankhurst
The Glorious Revolution
James Watt
Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Theodore Herzl
Central Powers.
Final Solution
Count Cavour
3. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Benito Mussolini
Declaration of Pillnitz
Concert of Europe
Vichy Regime
4. 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.
Sergei Witte
Eastern Question
Transcendentalists
North German Confederation
5. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Eastern Question
Stalingrad
Giuseppe Mazzini
6. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Franco-Prussian War
Triple Entente
fire at the Reichstag
7. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Georges Jacques Danton
English Civil War
Public Health Act
Dutch Republic
8. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Ptolemy
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
British East India Company
9. 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
Revolution from Above
Potsdam
Spanish-American War
10. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Allied Powers
Allies
Copernicus
11. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Franz Ferdinand
Social Democratic Party
Charles Albert
Revolution from Above
12. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Assembly of Notables
Secularization
Vladimir Lenin
Final Solution
13. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Oliver Cromwell
William Gladstone
Crimean War
14. 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
Black Shirt March
English Civil War
Panther
15. 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
Berlin Conference
Isaac Newton
Marshall plan
Korean War
16. 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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17. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Enclosure movement
Crimean War
John Stuart Mill
Emelyn Pugachev
18. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Russo-Japanese War
Free French
Dual Monarchy
Andrew Carnegie
19. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Battle of the Bulge
Oliver Cromwell
Easter Rising
Louis XIV
20. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
North German Confederation
Korean War
Free French
Mary Wollstonecraft
21. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Allied Powers
Enigma
Joseph Stalin
William and Catherine Booth
22. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
British East India Company
Blaise Pascal
Denis Diderot
Giueseppe Garibaldi
23. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Treaty of Paris
Volksgeist
Franz Ferdinand
24. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Utilitarianism
Marie Curie
William Gladstone
25. 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.
Louis Philippe I
Bradenburg-Prussia
British East India Company
Rene Descartes
26. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Charles Montesquieu
Russian Revolution
Allies
27. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of Paris
British East India Company
Marshall plan
28. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Emelyn Pugachev
Louis Philippe I
Franco-Prussian War
Edward Gibbon
29. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Secularization
Committee of Public Safety
Enclosure movement
30. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Charles Montesquieu
Paris Commune
Eastern Question
Whigs
31. 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.
Leipzig
Axis Powers
Franco-Prussian War
Panther
32. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Battle of Adowa
Revolution from Above
Charles Albert
33. 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.
John Rockefeller
Legislative Assembly
Adam Smith
Fabian Society
34. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Thermidor
Korean War
Dual Monarchy
35. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Panther
Galileo Galilei
The Glorious Revolution
Labour Party
36. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Galileo Galilei
Fabian Society
James Watt
Sir Francis Bacon
37. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Marie Curie
soviets
Austro-Piedmontese War
Franz Ferdinand
38. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Gottfried Leibniz
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Nazi
39. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Vladimir Lenin
William and Catherine Booth
Final Solution
40. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jacobins
Treaty of Paris
41. 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
Girondins
English Civil War
Potsdam
Spanish Civil War
42. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Korean War
Reform Bill
Count Cavour
Blaise Pascal
43. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Panther
New Economic Policy
Nikita Khrushchev
44. 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
Transcendentalists
conscription
Dual Monarchy
Zimmerman telegram
45. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Panther
Joseph Stalin
Bishop Bossuet
Gottfried Leibniz
46. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Volksgeist
Kronstadt
Johannes Kepler
Sir Francis Bacon
47. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Cecil Rhodes.
Denis Diderot
Russian Revolution
48. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Catherine the Great
Red Russians
Revolution from Above
Public Health Act
49. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Steel
Brezhnev Doctrine
War of Austrian Succession
Edmund Burke
50. 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.
Holy Alliance
Paris Commune
Robert Koch
Fascist Party