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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Volksgeist
fire at the Reichstag
Austro-Piedmontese War
Potsdam
2. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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3. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
William and Catherine Booth
Giuseppe Mazzini
Girondins
4. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Kronstadt
Final Solution
Free French
Quadruple Alliance
5. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Committee of Public Safety
Vladimir Lenin
Paracelsus
Central Powers.
6. 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.
Home Rule
John Stuart Mill
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Petition of Rights
7. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Louis XIV
Absolutism
Public Health Act
Paris Commune
8. 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
Vladimir Lenin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marie Curie
9. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
French Revolution of 1848
Russian Revolution
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bradenburg-Prussia
10. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Transcendentalists
Heinrich Himmler
Chartist Movement
11. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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12. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Battle of the Somme
Louis Philippe I
Sir Francis Bacon
Ferdinand VII
13. 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
Tories
Bradenburg-Prussia
Joseph Stalin
Benjamin Disraeli
14. A military draft
Dual Monarchy
Stalingrad
Rene Descartes
conscription
15. 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.
Benito Mussolini
Spanish-American War
Tories
Steel
16. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Franco-Prussian War
James Watt
Congress of Vienna
Louis XIV
17. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
John F. Kennedy
Dual Monarchy
Joseph Stalin
Nazi
18. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Austria-Hungary
Dual Monarchy
'Turnip' Townsend
The War of Jenkin's Ear
19. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
New Economic Policy
Eastern Question
William Gladstone
20. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
'Turnip' Townsend
British East India Company
Assembly of Notables
Continental System
21. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Isaac Newton
Kulaks
First and Second International
Allies
22. 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
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Treaty of Frankfurt
Emmeline Prankhurst
23. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Ferdinand VII
Edward Gibbon
Copernicus
Georges Jacques Danton
24. 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
Korean War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Herbert Spencer
25. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Benjamin Disraeli
Assembly of Notables
Berlin Conference
Seven Weeks' War
26. 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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27. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Oliver Cromwell
Galileo Galilei
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
28. (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
Triple Entente
Battle of the Bulge
War of Austrian Succession
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
29. 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).
Seven Weeks' War
Georges Jacques Danton
Catherine the Great
Kulaks
30. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Napoleon
North German Confederation
Fascist Party
31. 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.
Committee of Public Safety
Joseph Stalin
ancien regime
Charles X
32. 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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33. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Leipzig
Rene Descartes
Paracelsus
Triple Entente
34. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Dutch Republic
The Glorious Revolution
Axis Powers
Fascist Party
35. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Vesalius
Thirty Years' War
Napoleon
Marshall plan
36. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Boer War
New Economic Policy
Louis Philippe I
37. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Lateran Pact
Kronstadt
Lusitania
North German Confederation
38. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Tories
Lusitania
Theodore Herzl
Frederick the Great
39. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Public Health Act
Factory Act
Soviet-Afghan War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
40. 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.
Dual Monarchy
Factory Act
Volksgeist
Third International
41. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
First and Second International
Adam Smith
Emelyn Pugachev
42. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Paris Commune
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Ottoman empire dissolved
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
43. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Battle of Adowa
Emmanuel Sieyes
Dual Monarchy
Giuseppe Mazzini
44. 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
Joseph II
John Locke
Quadruple Alliance
45. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Utilitarianism
Revolution from Above
Fascist Party
46. 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.
Eastern Question
Soviet-Afghan War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Franco-Prussian War
47. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Bishop Bossuet
Vladimir Lenin
Public Health Act
Francois Voltaire
48. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
James Watt
Denis Diderot
Boer War
Charles Albert
49. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Spanish Civil War
Oliver Cromwell
Crimean War
Panther
50. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Battle of Adowa
Russian Revolution
Paracelsus