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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Louis XIV
Committee of Public Safety
Oliver Cromwell
Enclosure movement
2. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Seven Weeks' War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Francois Voltaire
Revisionists
3. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Triple Entente
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Daimler and Benz
John Rockefeller
4. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Sergei Witte
Emmanuel Sieyes
Giueseppe Garibaldi
5. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Crimean War
Committee of Public Safety
Leipzig
Brezhnev Doctrine
6. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
vanguard
Dulce et Decorum Est
Social Democratic Party
7. 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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8. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Paracelsus
Atlantic Charter
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Declaration of Pillnitz
9. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Thirty Years' War
Absolutism
Benito Mussolini
10. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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11. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Adam Smith
Benito Mussolini
ultraroyalists
12. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Thermidorian Reaction
First and Second International
Revisionists
Emmeline Prankhurst
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.
Crimean War
X-Ray
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enigma
14. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Johannes Kepler
Franz Ferdinand
Tories
Sergei Witte
15. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Reform Bill
Johannes Kepler
Enigma
Social Democratic Party
16. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Nazi
vanguard
Boer War
17. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Central Powers.
Enigma
Tories
soviets
18. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Social Democratic Party
Marshall plan
Peter the Great
Sergei Witte
19. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Easter Rising
Russian Revolution
Atlantic Charter
20. 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.
Labour Party
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Edict of Nantes
Giueseppe Garibaldi
21. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
French Revolution of 1848
Benjamin Disraeli
ultraroyalists
Joseph II
22. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Ptolemy
Kulaks
Edmund Burke
23. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Mary Wollstonecraft
White Russians
Emmanuel Sieyes
24. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
William Gladstone
Declaration of Pillnitz
John F. Kennedy
25. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Austria-Hungary
Isaac Newton
Russo-Japanese War
26. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Assembly of Notables
X-Ray
Enclosure movement
27. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Volksgeist
Enclosure movement
Emmanuel Sieyes
28. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Triple Entente
Franz Ferdinand
John Rockefeller
29. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Treaty of London
Vladimir Lenin
Final Solution
Kulaks
30. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Public Health Act
Galileo Galilei
Charles Montesquieu
31. 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.
Vichy Regime
Charles X
Potsdam
Greek Revolution
32. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Theodore Herzl
Ferdinand VII
Austro-Piedmontese War
Zimmerman telegram
33. 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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34. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Revisionists
Concert of Europe
Whigs
Berlin Conference
35. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Continental System
Vichy Regime
William Gladstone
Vladimir Lenin
36. 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.
Paris Commune
Daimler and Benz
Bradenburg-Prussia
Georges Jacques Danton
37. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Thermidorian Reaction
Thermidor
Paracelsus
Isaac Newton
38. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
vanguard
North German Confederation
Revisionists
39. 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
Treaty of Paris
Edinburgh
English Civil War
Giuseppe Mazzini
40. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
The Glorious Revolution
Allied Powers
Theodore Herzl
Greek Revolution
41. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Cecil Rhodes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Spanish-American War
Denis Diderot
42. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Nazi
Final Solution
Vladimir Lenin
Declaration of Pillnitz
43. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
War of Austrian Succession
Copernicus
Central Powers.
44. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Blaise Pascal
Kulaks
Herbert Spencer
British East India Company
45. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Paracelsus
Legislative Assembly
Leipzig
Triple Entente
46. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Herbert Spencer
Vesalius
Battle of the Bulge
Copernicus
47. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Enclosure movement
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Herbert Spencer
48. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Dutch Republic
Thomas Malthus
Fascist Party
49. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Charles Montesquieu
'Turnip' Townsend
Russian Revolution
50. 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
Treaty of London
Blaise Pascal
William and Catherine Booth