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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
Friedrich Nietzsche
Seven Weeks' War
Rene Descartes
2. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Ptolemy
Daimler and Benz
James Watt
Free French
3. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Holy Alliance
Peter the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
Dulce et Decorum Est
4. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Fabian Society
Spanish-American War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Crimean War
5. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Isaac Newton
British East India Company
Galileo Galilei
John Stuart Mill
6. 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.
Lusitania
Treaty of London
Holy Alliance
Paracelsus
7. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Napoleon
Emmanuel Sieyes
conscription
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Battle of the Somme
Theodore Herzl
Rene Descartes
9. 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.
Sergei Witte
Heinrich Himmler
Bradenburg-Prussia
Axis Powers
10. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Treaty of London
Triple Entente
Fascist Party
11. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Concert of Europe
James Watt
Final Solution
Atlantic Charter
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.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Congress of Vienna
Eastern Question
13. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Declaration of Pillnitz
Marie Curie
Louis XIV
14. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Charles Montesquieu
Chartist Movement
Marshall plan
15. 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.
Transcendentalists
Emelyn Pugachev
Vesalius
Triple Entente
16. 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
Berlin Conference
John F. Kennedy
Potsdam
Joseph Stalin
17. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Emmanuel Sieyes
Paris Commune
Count Cavour
18. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Lusitania
Lateran Pact
Revisionists
Eastern Question
19. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Brezhnev Doctrine
Treaty of Paris
Russian Revolution
20. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Red Russians
Thermidorian Reaction
Napoleon
Declaration of Pillnitz
21. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
William and Catherine Booth
Vesalius
Assembly of Notables
22. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Adolf Eichmann
Triple Alliance
Vesalius
Paris Commune
23. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Third International
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Austro-Hungarian Empire
24. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Absolutism
Sergei Witte
Tories
Triple Entente
25. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Whigs
First and Second International
Russo-Japanese War
26. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Thomas Malthus
Chartist Movement
Edinburgh
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.
Blaise Pascal
Paracelsus
ultraroyalists
Reform Bill
28. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Francois Voltaire
Kronstadt
John Locke
Triple Entente
29. 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.
Edinburgh
North German Confederation
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Thermidorian Reaction
30. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Utilitarianism
Easter Rising
Warsaw Pact
Count Cavour
31. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Dutch Republic
Emelyn Pugachev
vanguard
Fascist Party
32. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Stalingrad
French Revolution of 1848
Georges Jacques Danton
First and Second International
33. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Thermidor
White Russians
Thirty Years' War
Chartist Movement
34. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Georges Jacques Danton
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Ottoman empire dissolved
35. 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.
Black Shirt March
Lateran Pact
Edward Gibbon
Louis Philippe I
36. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Jean Paul Marat
Red Russians
Lateran Pact
Utilitarianism
37. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
French Revolution of 1848
Andrew Carnegie
Petition of Rights
38. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Battle of Adowa
Treaty of London
Revolution from Above
Napoleon
39. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Bishop Bossuet
Reform Bill
Joseph II
Red Russians
40. 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.'
Frederick the Great
Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph II
fire at the Reichstag
41. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Potsdam
Andrew Carnegie
Legislative Assembly
Triple Entente
42. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Korean War
John Locke
Adam Smith
43. 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
White Russians
Stalingrad
English Civil War
Whigs
44. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Galileo Galilei
Andrew Carnegie
Isaac Newton
Theodore Herzl
45. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Benito Mussolini
Paracelsus
Boer War
Central Powers.
46. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Austria-Hungary
Assembly of Notables
Franz Ferdinand
47. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
'Turnip' Townsend
Marshall plan
Marie Curie
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
48. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Holy Alliance
John Stuart Mill
Public Health Act
Boer War
49. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Concert of Europe
Charles X
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Austro-Piedmontese War
50. 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.
Adam Smith
James Watt
Stalingrad
Legislative Assembly