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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
ultraroyalists
Paracelsus
William and Catherine Booth
Robert Koch
2. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Atlantic Charter
Charles Albert
John F. Kennedy
Home Rule
3. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Enigma
Napoleon
Herbert Spencer
Edinburgh
4. 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.
Holy Alliance
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sergei Witte
Austro-Piedmontese War
5. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Boer War
Adam Smith
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Louis XIV
6. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Napoleon
fire at the Reichstag
Transcendentalists
7. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Adam Smith
War of Austrian Succession
Peter the Great
Marshall plan
8. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Factory Act
Third International
Home Rule
Galileo Galilei
9. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Ottoman empire dissolved
Herbert Spencer
Revolution from Above
Axis Powers
10. 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
Thomas Malthus
Joseph Stalin
War of Austrian Succession
Francois Voltaire
11. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Third International
Labour Party
Emmanuel Sieyes
Chartist Movement
12. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Congress of Vienna
Paracelsus
Allies
Korean War
13. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Jacobins
Ptolemy
Joseph Stalin
Warsaw Pact
14. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Axis Powers
Transcendentalists
Lenin and Trotsky
15. Discovered radium.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enigma
ancien regime
Marie Curie
16. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Gottfried Leibniz
Allied Powers
Social Democratic Party
17. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
North German Confederation
Lenin and Trotsky
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Absolutism
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.
Russo-Japanese War
Frederick the Great
Red Russians
Girondins
19. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Quadruple Alliance
Emelyn Pugachev
John Rockefeller
Charles Montesquieu
20. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Allies
Crimean War
Kulaks
Steel
21. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Treaty of Paris
'Turnip' Townsend
White Russians
Home Rule
22. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Count Cavour
Treaty of Tilsit
Andrew Carnegie
23. 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.
John Rockefeller
Congress of Vienna
Crimean War
Robert Koch
24. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Gottfried Leibniz
conscription
Nikita Khrushchev
Dual Monarchy
25. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Secularization
Galileo Galilei
Free French
26. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
John F. Kennedy
Georges Jacques Danton
Sergei Witte
ultraroyalists
27. 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.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Lenin and Trotsky
First and Second International
Fascist Party
28. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Mary Wollstonecraft
X-Ray
Leipzig
Utilitarianism
29. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Secularization
Treaty of London
Treaty of Tilsit
Concert of Europe
30. 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
Utilitarianism
Dutch Republic
Mary Wollstonecraft
Seven Weeks' War
31. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Black Shirt March
Adolf Eichmann
Johannes Kepler
Zimmerman telegram
32. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Final Solution
John F. Kennedy
Central Powers.
Potsdam
33. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Lateran Pact
Rene Descartes
Ferdinand VII
X-Ray
34. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Thermidor
Treaty of London
Thomas Malthus
35. 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.'
Copernicus
Leipzig
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charles X
36. 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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37. 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.
Kronstadt
Lateran Pact
Joseph Stalin
Girondins
38. 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.
Marshall plan
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Girondins
Korean War
39. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Berlin Conference
Denis Diderot
Volksgeist
Kulaks
40. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Galileo Galilei
Edward Gibbon
Louis XIV
Stalingrad
41. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
soviets
Lenin and Trotsky
Nazi
William Gladstone
42. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Korean War
Whigs
New Economic Policy
Charles X
43. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Joseph Stalin
Edinburgh
44. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Ptolemy
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Louis XIV
45. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Emmeline Prankhurst
ultraroyalists
Seven Weeks' War
Bishop Bossuet
46. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Galileo Galilei
Friedrich Nietzsche
James Watt
Battle of the Somme
47. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Black Shirt March
Rene Descartes
Reform Bill
Vladimir Lenin
48. 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.
Triple Alliance
Adolf Eichmann
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
49. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Ptolemy
Paris Commune
50. 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
Girondins
Final Solution
The Glorious Revolution
Leipzig