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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Ferdinand VII
Peter the Great
North German Confederation
2. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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3. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Tories
Ptolemy
Third International
North German Confederation
4. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Benjamin Disraeli
New Economic Policy
Franz Ferdinand
John F. Kennedy
5. 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.
Transcendentalists
Friedrich Nietzsche
Napoleon
Dual Monarchy
6. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Adam Smith
Stalingrad
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Emelyn Pugachev
7. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
War of Austrian Succession
Nazi
Lateran Pact
X-Ray
8. 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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9. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Stalingrad
William Gladstone
Emelyn Pugachev
Red Russians
10. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Stalingrad
Dulce et Decorum Est
Steel
Boer War
11. Britain and America
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Allied Powers
Dulce et Decorum Est
Spanish-American War
12. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Thermidor
Chartist Movement
Labour Party
13. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Reform Bill
Jean Paul Marat
14. 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.
Holy Alliance
Petition of Rights
Battle of Adowa
Dulce et Decorum Est
15. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Peter the Great
Count Cavour
Edict of Nantes
William Gladstone
16. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Napoleon
Potsdam
Lusitania
Enclosure movement
17. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Seven Weeks' War
Nazi
ancien regime
Denis Diderot
18. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Steel
Franco-Prussian War
Zimmerman telegram
Herbert Spencer
19. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Treaty of Paris
Spanish-American War
Seven Weeks' War
20. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Legislative Assembly
Jean Paul Marat
Count Cavour
Greek Revolution
21. 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.
British East India Company
Ottoman empire dissolved
Factory Act
Edmund Burke
22. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Edict of Nantes
conscription
Giuseppe Mazzini
Dutch Republic
23. 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
Russian Revolution
War of Austrian Succession
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
24. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Allies
Giueseppe Garibaldi
First and Second International
Congress of Vienna
25. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Zimmerman telegram
Battle of the Somme
Treaty of Tilsit
Andrew Carnegie
26. 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
conscription
Russian Revolution
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Austria-Hungary
27. 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.
Dual Monarchy
John Stuart Mill
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Declaration of Pillnitz
28. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Johannes Kepler
Easter Rising
Russian Revolution
29. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Warsaw Pact
Thermidor
Louis XIV
Marie Curie
30. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Lenin and Trotsky
Enigma
Vesalius
Thomas Malthus
31. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Concert of Europe
Warsaw Pact
Zimmerman telegram
The Glorious Revolution
32. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Mary Wollstonecraft
James Watt
Dutch Republic
ancien regime
33. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
English Civil War
Seven Weeks' War
Russian Revolution
34. A military draft
Transcendentalists
Galileo Galilei
Ptolemy
conscription
35. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Kulaks
Allied Powers
Home Rule
Panther
36. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Brezhnev Doctrine
Absolutism
Directory
37. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Copernicus
Giuseppe Mazzini
Committee of Public Safety
Crimean War
38. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Easter Rising
Austro-Piedmontese War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Concert of Europe
39. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Austro-Piedmontese War
Cecil Rhodes.
Easter Rising
40. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Nikita Khrushchev
Johannes Kepler
Herbert Spencer
Enclosure movement
41. 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
Count Cavour
John Locke
Seven Weeks' War
Friedrich Nietzsche
42. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Battle of the Bulge
Thermidorian Reaction
43. 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
Red Russians
Axis Powers
English Civil War
Dual Monarchy
44. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Rene Descartes
Francois Voltaire
White Russians
45. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Easter Rising
Seven Year's War
The Glorious Revolution
Korean War
46. 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
Rene Descartes
Assembly of Notables
Lusitania
47. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Axis Powers
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Austria-Hungary
The Glorious Revolution
48. 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.'
Brezhnev Doctrine
Free French
John Stuart Mill
Bishop Bossuet
49. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Allied Powers
Paris Commune
Warsaw Pact
50. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Thermidor
Allies
Easter Rising