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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Triple Alliance
Austria-Hungary
Charles X
X-Ray
2. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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3. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Peter the Great
Allies
Free French
4. 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
Free French
ultraroyalists
Potsdam
Atlantic Charter
5. 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
Panther
Korean War
Rene Descartes
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. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Revisionists
Absolutism
Battle of the Somme
8. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Axis Powers
Ottoman empire dissolved
Benjamin Disraeli
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
9. 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.
Nazi
Girondins
War of Austrian Succession
John Rockefeller
10. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Joseph II
Fabian Society
Warsaw Pact
11. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
John Stuart Mill
Panther
Dulce et Decorum Est
Atlantic Charter
12. Important ZIONIST.
Red Russians
Treaty of Frankfurt
Axis Powers
Theodore Herzl
13. 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
Thomas Malthus
Jean Paul Marat
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ancien regime
14. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Copernicus
Benjamin Disraeli
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
English Civil War
15. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Franco-Prussian War
Franz Ferdinand
Central Powers.
16. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Austria-Hungary
John Rockefeller
conscription
Spanish Civil War
17. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Louis Philippe I
Johannes Kepler
British East India Company
fire at the Reichstag
18. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Lusitania
Soviet-Afghan War
Vladimir Lenin
Edward Gibbon
19. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Jacobins
John F. Kennedy
Copernicus
Napoleon
20. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Dual Monarchy
Franco-Prussian War
Stalingrad
Brezhnev Doctrine
21. 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)
Austria-Hungary
Robert Koch
Russo-Japanese War
Benito Mussolini
22. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
British East India Company
conscription
Francois Voltaire
Benito Mussolini
23. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Treaty of London
Soviet-Afghan War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Eastern Question
24. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Franz Ferdinand
Brezhnev Doctrine
Austro-Piedmontese War
Girondins
25. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Revolution from Above
Fascist Party
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
26. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
War of Austrian Succession
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Edict of Nantes
27. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Count Cavour
Battle of the Somme
Heinrich Himmler
Giueseppe Garibaldi
28. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Spanish Civil War
Factory Act
vanguard
Vladimir Lenin
29. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Lateran Pact
Steel
Herbert Spencer
30. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Paris Commune
Marshall plan
Giuseppe Mazzini
31. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Transcendentalists
Andrew Carnegie
John Stuart Mill
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
32. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Kronstadt
Allies
New Economic Policy
Committee of Public Safety
33. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Jacobins
X-Ray
Committee of Public Safety
Nikita Khrushchev
34. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Assembly of Notables
Gottfried Leibniz
Thirty Years' War
soviets
35. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Congress of Vienna
Fascist Party
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
36. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Battle of the Bulge
Emmanuel Sieyes
X-Ray
Kaiser Wilhelm I
37. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Marie Curie
Triple Alliance
Home Rule
Kulaks
38. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Gottfried Leibniz
Lateran Pact
Secularization
39. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Ferdinand VII
Benito Mussolini
Red Russians
Jacobins
40. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
John F. Kennedy
New Economic Policy
English Civil War
41. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Catherine the Great
Triple Entente
Treaty of Tilsit
42. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Social Democratic Party
Revisionists
North German Confederation
43. 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.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Central Powers.
Reform Bill
Georges Jacques Danton
44. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Dulce et Decorum Est
Whigs
Thomas Malthus
45. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Sergei Witte
Adolf Eichmann
Berlin Conference
46. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Labour Party
Heinrich Himmler
Johannes Kepler
New Economic Policy
47. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Final Solution
Committee of Public Safety
Leipzig
Triple Entente
48. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Reform Bill
Declaration of Pillnitz
Emmeline Prankhurst
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
49. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Fascist Party
Battle of the Somme
Andrew Carnegie
Concert of Europe
50. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Lusitania
Red Russians
Brezhnev Doctrine