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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Whigs
Robert Koch
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Count Cavour
2. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Charles X
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Isaac Newton
Kronstadt
3. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
New Economic Policy
William and Catherine Booth
Peter the Great
The War of Jenkin's Ear
4. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Catherine the Great
Robert Koch
Axis Powers
Franz Ferdinand
5. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Thirty Years' War
Quadruple Alliance
Charles Montesquieu
Continental System
6. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Franco-Prussian War
Herbert Spencer
James Watt
Charles X
7. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Soviet-Afghan War
Francois Voltaire
Sir Francis Bacon
8. Founded the Salvation Army
conscription
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Assembly of Notables
9. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Black Shirt March
Denis Diderot
Franco-Prussian War
Andrew Carnegie
10. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Black Shirt March
Easter Rising
Leipzig
Boer War
11. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Black Shirt March
Greek Revolution
12. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Triple Entente
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Holy Alliance
13. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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14. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Peter the Great
Leipzig
Tories
15. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Ferdinand VII
John F. Kennedy
Paracelsus
Edward Gibbon
16. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Vesalius
Red Russians
Labour Party
17. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Andrew Carnegie
Sir Francis Bacon
Whigs
Robert Koch
18. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Johannes Kepler
French Revolution of 1848
Battle of the Somme
Paris Commune
19. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Treaty of Paris
Enigma
Girondins
20. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Marie Curie
Enigma
Copernicus
Oliver Cromwell
21. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Giuseppe Mazzini
Sergei Witte
Daimler and Benz
22. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Holy Alliance
White Russians
William and Catherine Booth
23. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books
John Rockefeller
Third International
Robert Koch
Copernicus
24. 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)
Tories
Benito Mussolini
Atlantic Charter
First and Second International
25. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Edward Gibbon
War of Austrian Succession
Robert Koch
Vladimir Lenin
26. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Catherine the Great
Marshall plan
Franco-Prussian War
John Stuart Mill
27. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Black Shirt March
Franco-Prussian War
Legislative Assembly
Allies
28. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Third International
Bradenburg-Prussia
Boer War
Kulaks
29. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Gottfried Leibniz
Charles Albert
Edict of Nantes
Stalingrad
30. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Charles Montesquieu
soviets
John Rockefeller
Spanish-American War
31. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Vichy Regime
Emmanuel Sieyes
Blaise Pascal
Vesalius
32. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
ultraroyalists
Ferdinand VII
John Stuart Mill
33. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Spanish Civil War
Potsdam
Crimean War
Theodore Herzl
34. 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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
The Glorious Revolution
White Russians
Francois Voltaire
35. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
ancien regime
Emmanuel Sieyes
Thomas Malthus
36. 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
John Rockefeller
Soviet-Afghan War
Joseph Stalin
Atlantic Charter
37. 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.
Thomas Malthus
First and Second International
Congress of Vienna
Theodore Herzl
38. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Fabian Society
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
39. Extermination of the Jews.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Catherine the Great
Lusitania
Final Solution
40. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Brezhnev Doctrine
Marshall plan
Allies
41. Important ZIONIST.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Theodore Herzl
soviets
Denis Diderot
42. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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43. 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
First and Second International
Emelyn Pugachev
Enigma
44. 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.
Secularization
Louis Philippe I
Charles Albert
Petition of Rights
45. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Social Democratic Party
Assembly of Notables
soviets
Warsaw Pact
46. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Cecil Rhodes.
French Revolution of 1848
Third International
47. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Tories
Brezhnev Doctrine
Emmeline Prankhurst
William Gladstone
48. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Benito Mussolini
John F. Kennedy
Peter the Great
Ptolemy
49. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Leipzig
X-Ray
Whigs
ancien regime
50. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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