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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Napoleon
Revolution from Above
Greek Revolution
Austro-Piedmontese War
2. 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.
Frederick the Great
Gottfried Leibniz
Girondins
Nikita Khrushchev
3. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Lateran Pact
Mary Wollstonecraft
Blaise Pascal
William Gladstone
4. Founded the Salvation Army
'Turnip' Townsend
William and Catherine Booth
Copernicus
Herbert Spencer
5. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Franz Ferdinand
First and Second International
Axis Powers
Black Shirt March
6. 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.
Isaac Newton
Final Solution
Third International
Edinburgh
7. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Leipzig
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bradenburg-Prussia
Benito Mussolini
8. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Catherine the Great
Holy Alliance
9. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Axis Powers
Steel
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Jean Paul Marat
10. 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
Dutch Republic
Vesalius
British East India Company
Paris Commune
11. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Potsdam
Easter Rising
Marie Curie
12. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Concert of Europe
Francois Voltaire
Louis XIV
13. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
First and Second International
Boer War
Easter Rising
New Economic Policy
14. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
First and Second International
John Stuart Mill
Committee of Public Safety
Jean Paul Marat
15. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
ultraroyalists
Absolutism
Black Shirt March
16. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Vichy Regime
Treaty of Frankfurt
Declaration of Pillnitz
Transcendentalists
17. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
vanguard
Free French
Thermidorian Reaction
18. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Factory Act
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Treaty of Paris
White Russians
19. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Giuseppe Mazzini
Whigs
Napoleon
20. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Cecil Rhodes.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Easter Rising
John F. Kennedy
21. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Revolution from Above
Battle of the Bulge
Seven Weeks' War
Reform Bill
22. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Herbert Spencer
Battle of the Bulge
Friedrich Nietzsche
23. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Heinrich Himmler
Warsaw Pact
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Lusitania
24. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Petition of Rights
Warsaw Pact
Louis XIV
25. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Vladimir Lenin
John Locke
Theodore Herzl
Paracelsus
26. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Jean Paul Marat
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Glorious Revolution
Giueseppe Garibaldi
27. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Isaac Newton
'Turnip' Townsend
Allies
Absolutism
28. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Public Health Act
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Battle of the Somme
New Economic Policy
29. 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
Thirty Years' War
ancien regime
Enigma
30. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Secularization
Edict of Nantes
Kronstadt
Enigma
31. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Treaty of Frankfurt
Vesalius
ultraroyalists
Austria-Hungary
32. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Enclosure movement
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giueseppe Garibaldi
33. 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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34. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Jean Paul Marat
Thermidorian Reaction
Triple Alliance
35. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Treaty of London
Napoleon
Ottoman empire dissolved
Seven Year's War
36. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Daimler and Benz
Committee of Public Safety
Korean War
37. 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.
Frederick the Great
Vichy Regime
Girondins
Treaty of Paris
38. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
conscription
Easter Rising
Vladimir Lenin
Leipzig
39. 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.
Transcendentalists
Jean Paul Marat
Brezhnev Doctrine
Napoleon
40. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Catherine the Great
soviets
Blaise Pascal
41. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Blaise Pascal
Daimler and Benz
Paracelsus
42. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Emelyn Pugachev
Nazi
43. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Soviet-Afghan War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Nazi
Continental System
44. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
John Rockefeller
Heinrich Himmler
Emmanuel Sieyes
Black Shirt March
45. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Transcendentalists
James Watt
Gottfried Leibniz
Legislative Assembly
46. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
North German Confederation
Third International
Gottfried Leibniz
47. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Louis XIV
Axis Powers
soviets
Battle of Adowa
48. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
North German Confederation
Kulaks
49. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Enclosure movement
Absolutism
Emelyn Pugachev
Sergei Witte
50. 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.
Revisionists
Thirty Years' War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Fascist Party
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