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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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).
James Watt
Georges Jacques Danton
Joseph II
Axis Powers
2. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Triple Alliance
Paracelsus
The Glorious Revolution
3. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Vesalius
Revisionists
James Watt
Third International
4. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Quadruple Alliance
Daimler and Benz
Volksgeist
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.
Count Cavour
The Glorious Revolution
Adam Smith
Final Solution
6. 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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7. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Revolution from Above
Factory Act
Napoleon
Committee of Public Safety
8. 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.
Joseph II
Charles X
Transcendentalists
Third International
9. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Lateran Pact
fire at the Reichstag
Leipzig
10. 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.
Galileo Galilei
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Congress of Vienna
War of Austrian Succession
11. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Charles X
Thomas Malthus
Thermidor
12. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Rene Descartes
Gottfried Leibniz
New Economic Policy
Thirty Years' War
13. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Girondins
John F. Kennedy
First and Second International
14. 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.
Steel
Third International
Panther
Quadruple Alliance
15. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
White Russians
Allied Powers
Holy Alliance
16. 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
Jean Paul Marat
First and Second International
Thirty Years' War
Central Powers.
17. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Black Shirt March
Sir Francis Bacon
Korean War
18. 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.
New Economic Policy
Panther
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Nazi
19. 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
Peter the Great
Thomas Malthus
Joseph II
John Locke
20. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
John Locke
Johannes Kepler
Treaty of London
Battle of the Somme
21. 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
Utilitarianism
Daimler and Benz
Dutch Republic
Greek Revolution
22. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Charles Albert
Vesalius
Ptolemy
23. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Stalingrad
Social Democratic Party
Treaty of Paris
John Rockefeller
24. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Tories
Louis Philippe I
New Economic Policy
25. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Thermidorian Reaction
Paracelsus
Chartist Movement
Revolution from Above
26. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Committee of Public Safety
Marie Curie
Kulaks
Secularization
27. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Marie Curie
Revolution from Above
Berlin Conference
Triple Alliance
28. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Joseph Stalin
English Civil War
Battle of Adowa
Crimean War
29. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Allies
Catherine the Great
ultraroyalists
New Economic Policy
30. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Emelyn Pugachev
Potsdam
Legislative Assembly
31. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Austro-Piedmontese War
Spanish Civil War
Soviet-Afghan War
32. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Nikita Khrushchev
Labour Party
Marshall plan
Adam Smith
33. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Thirty Years' War
Leipzig
Benito Mussolini
John Rockefeller
34. 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
Paris Commune
John F. Kennedy
Austro-Piedmontese War
35. 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.
Home Rule
North German Confederation
British East India Company
Edict of Nantes
36. Germany - Italy - and Japan
British East India Company
fire at the Reichstag
Third International
Axis Powers
37. 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.
Reform Bill
Treaty of Tilsit
Spanish-American War
vanguard
38. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Daimler and Benz
Thirty Years' War
Vladimir Lenin
Congress of Vienna
39. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Austro-Piedmontese War
Chartist Movement
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
40. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Thirty Years' War
French Revolution of 1848
Charles Albert
41. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
ultraroyalists
Stalingrad
Legislative Assembly
Blaise Pascal
42. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Whigs
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Austro-Piedmontese War
Holy Alliance
43. 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.
War of Austrian Succession
Axis Powers
Nikita Khrushchev
Franz Ferdinand
44. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Eastern Question
Franz Ferdinand
North German Confederation
Stalingrad
45. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Napoleon
Ottoman empire dissolved
Korean War
Free French
46. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Fabian Society
Kronstadt
Berlin Conference
47. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
Franco-Prussian War
Emelyn Pugachev
Daimler and Benz
48. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Blaise Pascal
North German Confederation
'Turnip' Townsend
49. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Georges Jacques Danton
Napoleon
Emmanuel Sieyes
50. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
French Revolution of 1848
Fabian Society
John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer