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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Napoleon
Revisionists
Austro-Piedmontese War
Herbert Spencer
2. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Battle of the Somme
Crimean War
Herbert Spencer
3. 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.
Fascist Party
Charles X
Battle of the Somme
Count Cavour
4. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Marie Curie
Easter Rising
Free French
5. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
Third International
Frederick the Great
Petition of Rights
6. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Peter the Great
Andrew Carnegie
Congress of Vienna
Eastern Question
7. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Potsdam
Volksgeist
Kulaks
Georges Jacques Danton
8. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Stalingrad
Congress of Vienna
'Turnip' Townsend
9. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Tories
Congress of Vienna
Thermidor
10. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Andrew Carnegie
Reform Bill
Revolution from Above
11. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Locke
William Gladstone
Declaration of Pillnitz
12. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Panther
Free French
Treaty of Frankfurt
Greek Revolution
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. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Austria-Hungary
Treaty of Frankfurt
Holy Alliance
15. 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.
Third International
Franz Ferdinand
North German Confederation
Spanish Civil War
16. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Congress of Vienna
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Frankfurt
17. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Atlantic Charter
Allied Powers
Catherine the Great
Concert of Europe
18. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Transcendentalists
Herbert Spencer
Peter the Great
19. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Spanish-American War
Lateran Pact
Marie Curie
20. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Russian Revolution
Emelyn Pugachev
Atlantic Charter
Fascist Party
21. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Adolf Eichmann
Louis Philippe I
Ottoman empire dissolved
22. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Jean Paul Marat
Nazi
Revisionists
Austro-Hungarian Empire
23. 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.'
Boer War
'Turnip' Townsend
Lateran Pact
Bishop Bossuet
24. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Leipzig
Crimean War
Vladimir Lenin
25. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Absolutism
Jacobins
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Charles X
26. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
conscription
Zimmerman telegram
Ottoman empire dissolved
Soviet-Afghan War
27. 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.
Volksgeist
Franco-Prussian War
Ferdinand VII
Nazi
28. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Treaty of Tilsit
Revolution from Above
'Turnip' Townsend
29. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Zimmerman telegram
Edict of Nantes
30. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Kronstadt
Ferdinand VII
Crimean War
Legislative Assembly
31. 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
Edward Gibbon
Louis XIV
Emmanuel Sieyes
John Locke
32. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Dutch Republic
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Vesalius
Free French
33. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Labour Party
Galileo Galilei
Triple Alliance
Catherine the Great
34. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Triple Alliance
Ferdinand VII
Copernicus
Allies
35. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Axis Powers
Joseph II
Franco-Prussian War
36. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Cecil Rhodes.
Soviet-Afghan War
Treaty of Paris
Rene Descartes
37. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Atlantic Charter
Charles Montesquieu
New Economic Policy
Cecil Rhodes.
38. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Joseph Stalin
Brezhnev Doctrine
Nazi
White Russians
39. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Thermidor
Georges Jacques Danton
40. 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.
Petition of Rights
New Economic Policy
Ptolemy
British East India Company
41. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Adam Smith
Petition of Rights
Rene Descartes
Treaty of Frankfurt
42. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Treaty of Tilsit
Adam Smith
Edward Gibbon
Benito Mussolini
43. 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.
Whigs
Emmanuel Sieyes
Emmeline Prankhurst
Galileo Galilei
44. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Thomas Malthus
James Watt
Assembly of Notables
45. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Charles Montesquieu
Dulce et Decorum Est
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Enigma
46. 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
Charles Montesquieu
Spanish Civil War
Korean War
William and Catherine Booth
47. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Louis Philippe I
Transcendentalists
Quadruple Alliance
Ottoman empire dissolved
48. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Spanish Civil War
Utilitarianism
Red Russians
Final Solution
49. Britain and America
Charles X
Enigma
New Economic Policy
Allied Powers
50. 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
Francois Voltaire
Benjamin Disraeli
Count Cavour
Franco-Prussian War
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