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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Enclosure movement
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Somme
2. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Edict of Nantes
Tories
Johannes Kepler
Joseph II
3. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Benjamin Disraeli
Home Rule
4. 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.
Petition of Rights
Greek Revolution
conscription
Spanish Civil War
5. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
The Glorious Revolution
William Gladstone
Emmeline Prankhurst
Zimmerman telegram
6. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Edmund Burke
Charles Albert
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Frankfurt
7. 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
Johannes Kepler
Copernicus
Fascist Party
Warsaw Pact
8. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Battle of the Bulge
Cecil Rhodes.
Triple Alliance
Factory Act
9. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
James Watt
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Marie Curie
Giueseppe Garibaldi
10. 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.
Labour Party
Adam Smith
Emmanuel Sieyes
Russian Revolution
11. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Spanish Civil War
Franz Ferdinand
Adolf Eichmann
Final Solution
12. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Berlin Conference
Battle of the Somme
soviets
Central Powers.
13. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
First and Second International
Utilitarianism
Louis XIV
Austro-Hungarian Empire
14. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
First and Second International
Russo-Japanese War
Crimean War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
15. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Theodore Herzl
Sir Francis Bacon
Jacobins
Home Rule
16. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Isaac Newton
Napoleon
North German Confederation
Lateran Pact
17. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Edict of Nantes
Berlin Conference
Ferdinand VII
Kulaks
18. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Edmund Burke
Girondins
Jacobins
19. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Thermidor
Andrew Carnegie
Brezhnev Doctrine
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
20. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Joseph II
British East India Company
Edict of Nantes
Revisionists
21. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Georges Jacques Danton
Count Cavour
Paris Commune
Stalingrad
22. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Allied Powers
Johannes Kepler
Nikita Khrushchev
Labour Party
23. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Easter Rising
Bradenburg-Prussia
Paracelsus
Social Democratic Party
24. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Panther
Allied Powers
Benito Mussolini
25. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Greek Revolution
Brezhnev Doctrine
X-Ray
Austria-Hungary
26. A military draft
John Stuart Mill
Charles X
Declaration of Pillnitz
conscription
27. 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
X-Ray
Boer War
Potsdam
Seven Year's War
28. 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.
Sergei Witte
Allied Powers
Soviet-Afghan War
Oliver Cromwell
29. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Tories
English Civil War
Enigma
Edinburgh
30. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Rene Descartes
Denis Diderot
Franz Ferdinand
Ottoman empire dissolved
31. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Stalingrad
Lenin and Trotsky
Allies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Petition of Rights
Fabian Society
Transcendentalists
Red Russians
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.
Concert of Europe
Panther
Atlantic Charter
Committee of Public Safety
34. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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35. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
War of Austrian Succession
John Rockefeller
Revisionists
36. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
William and Catherine Booth
Thermidorian Reaction
Brezhnev Doctrine
Marshall plan
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.
Quadruple Alliance
The Glorious Revolution
British East India Company
Frederick the Great
38. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Isaac Newton
Allied Powers
Dutch Republic
39. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Charles Montesquieu
Leipzig
Joseph Stalin
40. 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.
Public Health Act
Marshall plan
Enclosure movement
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
41. 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.'
Bishop Bossuet
soviets
John F. Kennedy
Dual Monarchy
42. 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
Spanish-American War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Battle of the Bulge
Joseph Stalin
43. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
John Locke
Treaty of Frankfurt
Assembly of Notables
Triple Alliance
44. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Gottfried Leibniz
Girondins
Russian Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
45. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Axis Powers
Giuseppe Mazzini
fire at the Reichstag
Eastern Question
46. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Charles X
Theodore Herzl
Edmund Burke
Free French
47. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Leipzig
Vesalius
Bradenburg-Prussia
Axis Powers
48. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
John Rockefeller
Edmund Burke
Charles Montesquieu
Robert Koch
49. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
ultraroyalists
Brezhnev Doctrine
Robert Koch
Seven Year's War
50. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Denis Diderot
Dulce et Decorum Est
vanguard