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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
Edinburgh
Johannes Kepler
Benito Mussolini
2. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Home Rule
Eastern Question
Vesalius
Allies
3. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Triple Entente
Isaac Newton
Korean War
Adolf Eichmann
4. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
William and Catherine Booth
Count Cavour
Daimler and Benz
Vichy Regime
5. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Russian Revolution
Francois Voltaire
Committee of Public Safety
6. 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
Axis Powers
Declaration of Pillnitz
Easter Rising
7. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Sergei Witte
Andrew Carnegie
Volksgeist
Home Rule
8. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Nazi
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Triple Entente
9. Founded the Salvation Army
Jean Paul Marat
Triple Alliance
William and Catherine Booth
Thomas Malthus
10. 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
English Civil War
Easter Rising
British East India Company
Dual Monarchy
11. 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.
Boer War
Seven Weeks' War
Franco-Prussian War
Johannes Kepler
12. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Berlin Conference
Franco-Prussian War
Dulce et Decorum Est
13. Extermination of the Jews.
Lateran Pact
Zimmerman telegram
Treaty of London
Final Solution
14. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
ancien regime
Ptolemy
Georges Jacques Danton
15. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Lusitania
Directory
Triple Entente
Denis Diderot
16. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Johannes Kepler
Herbert Spencer
17. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Friedrich Nietzsche
Transcendentalists
Social Democratic Party
18. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Frederick the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
Paracelsus
John F. Kennedy
19. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Marie Curie
Treaty of Tilsit
Paracelsus
Jean Paul Marat
20. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Thomas Malthus
Thermidorian Reaction
Dutch Republic
Bradenburg-Prussia
21. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Public Health Act
Catherine the Great
Labour Party
Franz Ferdinand
22. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Revolution from Above
Sergei Witte
Home Rule
23. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Allied Powers
Panther
John Locke
24. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Marie Curie
Louis XIV
Enigma
Greek Revolution
25. 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.
Joseph II
Final Solution
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Benjamin Disraeli
26. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
James Watt
Allied Powers
27. 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.
Seven Year's War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Triple Alliance
Third International
28. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Legislative Assembly
Isaac Newton
Herbert Spencer
29. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
X-Ray
Nazi
Thirty Years' War
Isaac Newton
30. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Theodore Herzl
Vladimir Lenin
Spanish-American War
Spanish Civil War
31. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Whigs
Volksgeist
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Free French
32. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Volksgeist
John Rockefeller
Berlin Conference
Seven Year's War
33. 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
Russo-Japanese War
X-Ray
Zimmerman telegram
34. 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
Public Health Act
Copernicus
First and Second International
35. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Tories
Factory Act
Robert Koch
Giueseppe Garibaldi
36. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
X-Ray
Cecil Rhodes.
James Watt
Secularization
37. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Final Solution
Emelyn Pugachev
Adolf Eichmann
Allied Powers
38. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Oliver Cromwell
Labour Party
Battle of the Bulge
Central Powers.
39. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Transcendentalists
Russo-Japanese War
Kulaks
soviets
40. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Korean War
Dutch Republic
41. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Mary Wollstonecraft
Seven Year's War
Congress of Vienna
42. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Axis Powers
Louis XIV
Frederick the Great
Revolution from Above
43. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Dutch Republic
Vladimir Lenin
Triple Alliance
Blaise Pascal
44. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Greek Revolution
Thermidorian Reaction
Home Rule
Austria-Hungary
45. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Peter the Great
War of Austrian Succession
Soviet-Afghan War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
46. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Chartist Movement
Charles Montesquieu
Final Solution
Ferdinand VII
47. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Steel
Joseph II
Eastern Question
Sir Francis Bacon
48. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Social Democratic Party
Transcendentalists
Stalingrad
conscription
49. 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.
soviets
Bradenburg-Prussia
Treaty of Tilsit
Friedrich Nietzsche
50. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Adolf Eichmann
Franz Ferdinand
Fabian Society