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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
John F. Kennedy
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Vesalius
The Glorious Revolution
2. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Volksgeist
Charles Montesquieu
Treaty of Tilsit
3. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Warsaw Pact
Black Shirt March
William Gladstone
The War of Jenkin's Ear
4. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Brezhnev Doctrine
Triple Alliance
Battle of the Bulge
The Glorious Revolution
5. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Volksgeist
Seven Weeks' War
Vesalius
Thermidor
6. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
soviets
Continental System
Oliver Cromwell
7. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Zimmerman telegram
Paris Commune
Adolf Eichmann
8. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Edinburgh
French Revolution of 1848
Whigs
Utilitarianism
9. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Adam Smith
Warsaw Pact
Home Rule
10. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Emelyn Pugachev
Paracelsus
Theodore Herzl
11. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Charles X
Axis Powers
Edict of Nantes
Concert of Europe
12. 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
Copernicus
Marie Curie
Thirty Years' War
James Watt
13. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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14. 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.
Marshall plan
Ottoman empire dissolved
Red Russians
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
15. 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.
Marie Curie
Adam Smith
Edward Gibbon
Potsdam
16. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Spanish-American War
John Locke
Factory Act
17. 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.
Girondins
Ptolemy
Charles Montesquieu
Boer War
18. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Russo-Japanese War
Edmund Burke
John Rockefeller
Berlin Conference
19. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Social Democratic Party
Dulce et Decorum Est
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Somme
20. Important ZIONIST.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Red Russians
Theodore Herzl
Andrew Carnegie
21. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Bishop Bossuet
Fascist Party
Kulaks
John F. Kennedy
22. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Continental System
Peter the Great
Cecil Rhodes.
23. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Triple Alliance
Atlantic Charter
Dutch Republic
Enclosure movement
24. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Joseph Stalin
Chartist Movement
Franco-Prussian War
Black Shirt March
25. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Charles X
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Revolution from Above
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
26. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Tories
Secularization
Greek Revolution
Emmeline Prankhurst
27. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Russian Revolution
Seven Weeks' War
Treaty of Paris
Charles Albert
28. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
John Locke
Brezhnev Doctrine
Bradenburg-Prussia
29. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Directory
Adolf Eichmann
Allies
Emmanuel Sieyes
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
Giuseppe Mazzini
Congress of Vienna
Chartist Movement
Dutch Republic
31. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Joseph Stalin
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Volksgeist
32. A military draft
conscription
Committee of Public Safety
Reform Bill
Giueseppe Garibaldi
33. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Committee of Public Safety
Berlin Conference
Greek Revolution
Sir Francis Bacon
34. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Ottoman empire dissolved
Lenin and Trotsky
Vichy Regime
35. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Spanish-American War
Marshall plan
Louis XIV
Dual Monarchy
36. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Zimmerman telegram
Ferdinand VII
Free French
Jacobins
37. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Secularization
Johannes Kepler
Berlin Conference
Panther
38. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Red Russians
Black Shirt March
Gottfried Leibniz
39. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Petition of Rights
Edward Gibbon
Giuseppe Mazzini
40. 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
Black Shirt March
Sir Francis Bacon
The Glorious Revolution
Paris Commune
41. 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
John Locke
Nazi
Edward Gibbon
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
42. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Sir Francis Bacon
Vladimir Lenin
ultraroyalists
Isaac Newton
43. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Girondins
Korean War
44. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
William and Catherine Booth
Edward Gibbon
45. 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.
Adam Smith
Zimmerman telegram
Easter Rising
Galileo Galilei
46. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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47. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Directory
Charles Albert
Legislative Assembly
Dulce et Decorum Est
48. 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
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Francois Voltaire
Thermidorian Reaction
Peter the Great
49. 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.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Absolutism
Giuseppe Mazzini
Congress of Vienna
50. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Herbert Spencer
Declaration of Pillnitz
Korean War
Robert Koch