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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Whigs
Steel
Austro-Hungarian Empire
2. 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
Johannes Kepler
James Watt
Bradenburg-Prussia
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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4. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Legislative Assembly
Revolution from Above
Battle of Adowa
Herbert Spencer
5. 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.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Legislative Assembly
Adam Smith
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
6. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
X-Ray
New Economic Policy
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
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).
Enclosure movement
Georges Jacques Danton
Louis XIV
Charles X
8. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Louis XIV
Utilitarianism
Holy Alliance
John Rockefeller
9. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Treaty of Tilsit
Rene Descartes
Home Rule
10. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
English Civil War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Peter the Great
Red Russians
11. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Franz Ferdinand
Adam Smith
Gottfried Leibniz
soviets
12. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Committee of Public Safety
John Rockefeller
Allied Powers
Crimean War
13. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Georges Jacques Danton
Triple Alliance
Third International
Leipzig
14. 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
Rene Descartes
Treaty of Frankfurt
Joseph Stalin
Emmanuel Sieyes
15. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Kronstadt
X-Ray
Crimean War
Lateran Pact
16. Important ZIONIST.
Absolutism
Triple Entente
Theodore Herzl
'Turnip' Townsend
17. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Count Cavour
Ottoman empire dissolved
18. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Seven Year's War
Vichy Regime
Allies
Reform Bill
19. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
John F. Kennedy
Steel
Central Powers.
Denis Diderot
20. 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.
Louis Philippe I
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
conscription
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
21. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Red Russians
Home Rule
Sergei Witte
Georges Jacques Danton
22. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
John Rockefeller
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Steel
Battle of Adowa
23. 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
Petition of Rights
Triple Alliance
Holy Alliance
24. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Kronstadt
Johannes Kepler
Ferdinand VII
25. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Fabian Society
Berlin Conference
Herbert Spencer
26. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thirty Years' War
Social Democratic Party
27. 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
Cecil Rhodes.
Zimmerman telegram
Congress of Vienna
28. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Russo-Japanese War
Franz Ferdinand
Continental System
29. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emmeline Prankhurst
Francois Voltaire
Dual Monarchy
30. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Lenin and Trotsky
Enigma
31. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Fabian Society
Theodore Herzl
Copernicus
Russo-Japanese War
32. 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.
Edinburgh
Thirty Years' War
John Stuart Mill
Transcendentalists
33. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Charles Montesquieu
Fascist Party
Emelyn Pugachev
34. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Jean Paul Marat
White Russians
Leipzig
Ptolemy
35. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Thirty Years' War
conscription
Battle of the Somme
John Rockefeller
36. 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.
Louis Philippe I
Lateran Pact
Central Powers.
The Glorious Revolution
37. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Edward Gibbon
Gottfried Leibniz
Galileo Galilei
38. Extermination of the Jews.
Joseph Stalin
Ptolemy
Final Solution
Petition of Rights
39. 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.'
Franco-Prussian War
Legislative Assembly
Soviet-Afghan War
Bishop Bossuet
40. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Emmeline Prankhurst
Marshall plan
Herbert Spencer
Potsdam
41. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Eastern Question
ultraroyalists
Paris Commune
Warsaw Pact
42. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Heinrich Himmler
War of Austrian Succession
Congress of Vienna
North German Confederation
43. Britain and America
Georges Jacques Danton
Allied Powers
William Gladstone
Central Powers.
44. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
John Locke
Bradenburg-Prussia
Adolf Eichmann
Rene Descartes
45. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
ultraroyalists
Triple Entente
Eastern Question
46. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Thirty Years' War
X-Ray
White Russians
Nikita Khrushchev
47. 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
Enclosure movement
The Glorious Revolution
William Gladstone
conscription
48. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Allies
Concert of Europe
Utilitarianism
49. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Jacobins
Edinburgh
Marshall plan
Black Shirt March
50. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Jean Paul Marat
Seven Weeks' War
Frederick the Great