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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Crimean War
John Rockefeller
Denis Diderot
Home Rule
2. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Soviet-Afghan War
Emmeline Prankhurst
Daimler and Benz
Boer War
3. 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.
Paris Commune
Black Shirt March
Battle of Adowa
Mary Wollstonecraft
4. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Reform Bill
Revisionists
Frederick the Great
Battle of the Bulge
5. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Secularization
Marshall plan
Austro-Piedmontese War
Paracelsus
6. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Revolution from Above
Marshall plan
Peter the Great
ultraroyalists
7. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Revisionists
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Transcendentalists
8. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Warsaw Pact
Concert of Europe
Holy Alliance
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
9. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Rene Descartes
Russian Revolution
Austro-Piedmontese War
Adam Smith
10. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Russian Revolution
Korean War
Benjamin Disraeli
Spanish Civil War
11. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
French Revolution of 1848
Mary Wollstonecraft
Triple Alliance
Thermidor
12. 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
conscription
Giuseppe Mazzini
English Civil War
Joseph Stalin
13. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Charles Montesquieu
Emelyn Pugachev
Allies
'Turnip' Townsend
14. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Berlin Conference
Galileo Galilei
Spanish-American War
15. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Panther
Edmund Burke
Edinburgh
16. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Bradenburg-Prussia
North German Confederation
Public Health Act
Gottfried Leibniz
17. 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
Herbert Spencer
Rene Descartes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Potsdam
18. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Russo-Japanese War
Lateran Pact
Johannes Kepler
19. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Cecil Rhodes.
Concert of Europe
soviets
Battle of the Somme
20. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Home Rule
Charles Montesquieu
James Watt
Congress of Vienna
21. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Battle of Adowa
Potsdam
Easter Rising
Sergei Witte
22. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Gottfried Leibniz
Treaty of Frankfurt
Blaise Pascal
23. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Adam Smith
Congress of Vienna
War of Austrian Succession
24. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Battle of the Somme
William and Catherine Booth
Emelyn Pugachev
Brezhnev Doctrine
25. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Assembly of Notables
Third International
Black Shirt March
26. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Tories
Adolf Eichmann
Friedrich Nietzsche
27. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Absolutism
Revolution from Above
Rene Descartes
Public Health Act
28. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Andrew Carnegie
Lenin and Trotsky
Herbert Spencer
Spanish Civil War
29. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Axis Powers
Benjamin Disraeli
Russo-Japanese War
Atlantic Charter
30. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Herbert Spencer
Sir Francis Bacon
Edmund Burke
Warsaw Pact
31. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
'Turnip' Townsend
Kulaks
Revolution from Above
Tories
32. 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
Home Rule
Sergei Witte
'Turnip' Townsend
33. 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
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Thermidorian Reaction
Austria-Hungary
Jacobins
34. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Chartist Movement
Thomas Malthus
Absolutism
Austria-Hungary
35. 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).
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
ultraroyalists
Berlin Conference
Georges Jacques Danton
36. 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
Eastern Question
Dual Monarchy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Assembly of Notables
37. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Easter Rising
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Holy Alliance
38. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Russian Revolution
Vichy Regime
ultraroyalists
Adam Smith
39. 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
Galileo Galilei
Russian Revolution
Social Democratic Party
Jean Paul Marat
40. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Ottoman empire dissolved
Kronstadt
Fascist Party
41. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Charles Montesquieu
James Watt
Paris Commune
Rene Descartes
42. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
John Rockefeller
Marie Curie
Labour Party
First and Second International
43. 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.
Revisionists
Whigs
Girondins
North German Confederation
44. 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.
Labour Party
Secularization
Black Shirt March
Vichy Regime
45. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Treaty of London
Red Russians
Enigma
46. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Thermidorian Reaction
Public Health Act
Ottoman empire dissolved
Zimmerman telegram
47. 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
Kronstadt
Joseph Stalin
Continental System
Francois Voltaire
48. 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
Red Russians
Copernicus
Cecil Rhodes.
Marshall plan
49. 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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50. 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.
Free French
Secularization
ancien regime
Tories