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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Joseph Stalin
Committee of Public Safety
Absolutism
Mary Wollstonecraft
2. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Francois Voltaire
Thermidor
Soviet-Afghan War
John Stuart Mill
3. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Eastern Question
Vichy Regime
Greek Revolution
Charles X
4. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Revolution from Above
Soviet-Afghan War
ancien regime
Vesalius
5. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Cecil Rhodes.
Galileo Galilei
Home Rule
Greek Revolution
6. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Thermidorian Reaction
Black Shirt March
7. 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).
Fascist Party
Bradenburg-Prussia
Georges Jacques Danton
Berlin Conference
8. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Edinburgh
William Gladstone
Rene Descartes
Austro-Hungarian Empire
9. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Sir Francis Bacon
Stalingrad
First and Second International
Zimmerman telegram
10. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Treaty of London
conscription
Triple Alliance
Directory
11. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Third International
Louis Philippe I
Thermidor
Friedrich Nietzsche
12. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Charles Montesquieu
Central Powers.
Quadruple Alliance
Whigs
13. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Georges Jacques Danton
Count Cavour
Kronstadt
Directory
14. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Thermidorian Reaction
Treaty of Frankfurt
Steel
Theodore Herzl
15. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Lateran Pact
Tories
Treaty of Tilsit
16. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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17. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Heinrich Himmler
Quadruple Alliance
New Economic Policy
18. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Jean Paul Marat
Revolution from Above
Dutch Republic
Denis Diderot
19. 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
Adolf Eichmann
Sergei Witte
Paris Commune
20. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
ultraroyalists
The Glorious Revolution
Napoleon
21. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Thomas Malthus
Easter Rising
Blaise Pascal
X-Ray
22. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Franz Ferdinand
Enclosure movement
vanguard
'Turnip' Townsend
23. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Nazi
Treaty of Tilsit
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ferdinand VII
24. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Kronstadt
Black Shirt March
Count Cavour
Edward Gibbon
25. A military draft
Enclosure movement
Franco-Prussian War
Edward Gibbon
conscription
26. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
'Turnip' Townsend
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Allies
Charles Albert
27. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Sergei Witte
Ferdinand VII
Thermidorian Reaction
Blaise Pascal
28. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
vanguard
Atlantic Charter
Greek Revolution
Ptolemy
29. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Gottfried Leibniz
Whigs
Thermidor
Dual Monarchy
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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Charles Montesquieu
Vladimir Lenin
Kronstadt
31. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Home Rule
Committee of Public Safety
Nazi
Quadruple Alliance
32. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Free French
Kronstadt
Revolution from Above
33. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
Giueseppe Garibaldi
vanguard
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
34. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Oliver Cromwell
Franz Ferdinand
Vichy Regime
35. 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
Battle of the Bulge
Charles X
Isaac Newton
36. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Daimler and Benz
Marshall plan
Johannes Kepler
37. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Benito Mussolini
Frederick the Great
Blaise Pascal
38. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Ottoman empire dissolved
Congress of Vienna
Berlin Conference
39. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Revisionists
Nazi
Catherine the Great
Giuseppe Mazzini
40. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Louis Philippe I
English Civil War
Directory
41. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Louis XIV
Quadruple Alliance
Korean War
42. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Seven Weeks' War
Chartist Movement
Charles Montesquieu
43. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Public Health Act
James Watt
Thermidor
Daimler and Benz
44. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Stalingrad
Vichy Regime
Crimean War
War of Austrian Succession
45. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Austria-Hungary
Panther
Paris Commune
Seven Weeks' War
46. 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.
War of Austrian Succession
Herbert Spencer
Austro-Piedmontese War
Black Shirt March
47. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Cecil Rhodes.
Nazi
Lenin and Trotsky
Dulce et Decorum Est
48. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Georges Jacques Danton
Central Powers.
Red Russians
Edward Gibbon
49. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Girondins
Vladimir Lenin
Continental System
soviets
50. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Sir Francis Bacon
Congress of Vienna
Kronstadt
Emmanuel Sieyes