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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
War of Austrian Succession
Factory Act
Directory
Benjamin Disraeli
2. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
conscription
ancien regime
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Andrew Carnegie
3. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Panther
Joseph Stalin
John F. Kennedy
Bradenburg-Prussia
4. Discovered radium.
White Russians
Joseph Stalin
Axis Powers
Marie Curie
5. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Panther
Allies
Warsaw Pact
Nazi
6. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Warsaw Pact
vanguard
Giuseppe Mazzini
Emmeline Prankhurst
7. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Reform Bill
Kulaks
Herbert Spencer
Lusitania
8. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Russian Revolution
Chartist Movement
Absolutism
Whigs
9. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Continental System
Russian Revolution
Steel
Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Copernicus
Revisionists
Gottfried Leibniz
11. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Charles Montesquieu
Austro-Piedmontese War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treaty of London
12. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Thermidorian Reaction
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Copernicus
Triple Alliance
13. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Johannes Kepler
Bishop Bossuet
Thirty Years' War
14. 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.
soviets
Mary Wollstonecraft
Adam Smith
Franco-Prussian War
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.
Black Shirt March
Continental System
Ottoman empire dissolved
John Stuart Mill
16. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
British East India Company
Third International
Thermidorian Reaction
17. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Francois Voltaire
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Emelyn Pugachev
Tories
18. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Charles Albert
Free French
Battle of the Somme
Congress of Vienna
19. Britain and America
Congress of Vienna
Lenin and Trotsky
Allied Powers
Johannes Kepler
20. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Sergei Witte
Copernicus
William and Catherine Booth
21. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Charles X
Brezhnev Doctrine
Louis Philippe I
French Revolution of 1848
22. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austria-Hungary
Battle of the Bulge
Charles X
23. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Dutch Republic
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Home Rule
Continental System
24. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Chartist Movement
vanguard
Oliver Cromwell
25. 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
Denis Diderot
Enclosure movement
fire at the Reichstag
26. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Cecil Rhodes.
Catherine the Great
27. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Fabian Society
Peter the Great
Count Cavour
Nazi
28. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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29. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
English Civil War
Red Russians
John F. Kennedy
Revisionists
30. 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.
Georges Jacques Danton
Franco-Prussian War
Congress of Vienna
Chartist Movement
31. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Eastern Question
Triple Entente
Lusitania
Mary Wollstonecraft
32. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Blaise Pascal
Austro-Piedmontese War
Thirty Years' War
33. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Herbert Spencer
Brezhnev Doctrine
Atlantic Charter
Holy Alliance
34. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Labour Party
Directory
Battle of the Somme
Holy Alliance
35. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Labour Party
British East India Company
Lusitania
Francois Voltaire
36. Extermination of the Jews.
Catherine the Great
Treaty of Frankfurt
Frederick the Great
Final Solution
37. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Greek Revolution
Petition of Rights
Secularization
Treaty of Tilsit
38. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Dual Monarchy
Louis XIV
Brezhnev Doctrine
Charles Montesquieu
39. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
John Rockefeller
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thermidorian Reaction
40. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Home Rule
Red Russians
Austro-Piedmontese War
First and Second International
41. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Dual Monarchy
Seven Year's War
Nikita Khrushchev
42. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Dual Monarchy
Treaty of Tilsit
43. 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.
Thirty Years' War
ultraroyalists
Edward Gibbon
Joseph II
44. 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.
Panther
Lusitania
Triple Entente
The War of Jenkin's Ear
45. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Thomas Malthus
Secularization
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Allies
46. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Battle of the Somme
Factory Act
Austria-Hungary
Jacobins
47. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
soviets
Enigma
Stalingrad
48. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Crimean War
New Economic Policy
Vichy Regime
Thirty Years' War
49. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Andrew Carnegie
Joseph Stalin
Theodore Herzl
50. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Blaise Pascal
Crimean War
Paris Commune
Social Democratic Party