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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Joseph II
2. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Transcendentalists
Committee of Public Safety
Easter Rising
3. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Enigma
Declaration of Pillnitz
Paracelsus
4. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Austria-Hungary
Assembly of Notables
Edward Gibbon
5. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Benjamin Disraeli
Peter the Great
Thomas Malthus
Steel
6. 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.
Paracelsus
Treaty of Frankfurt
Joseph II
Battle of Adowa
7. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Panther
Austro-Hungarian Empire
ancien regime
8. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Home Rule
New Economic Policy
John Stuart Mill
Marie Curie
9. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
John Rockefeller
Sir Francis Bacon
Dual Monarchy
Cecil Rhodes.
10. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Austria-Hungary
Lenin and Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin
11. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Peter the Great
Seven Weeks' War
Whigs
12. 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.
Joseph Stalin
Franco-Prussian War
Jacobins
Petition of Rights
13. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
soviets
Social Democratic Party
Adolf Eichmann
Adam Smith
14. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Social Democratic Party
Jacobins
Kulaks
15. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nikita Khrushchev
Nazi
Heinrich Himmler
16. 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
Sergei Witte
Bradenburg-Prussia
Reform Bill
17. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Paris
Central Powers.
Emmeline Prankhurst
18. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Spanish-American War
Blaise Pascal
Free French
Louis XIV
19. 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.
Eastern Question
Fascist Party
Transcendentalists
fire at the Reichstag
20. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Committee of Public Safety
Benito Mussolini
Korean War
War of Austrian Succession
21. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Catherine the Great
Edward Gibbon
Allied Powers
Assembly of Notables
22. 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.
Black Shirt March
Girondins
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Franco-Prussian War
23. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Lateran Pact
North German Confederation
Mary Wollstonecraft
24. 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
Rene Descartes
John Locke
Treaty of Frankfurt
First and Second International
25. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Steel
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Greek Revolution
Emmanuel Sieyes
26. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vichy Regime
James Watt
Third International
27. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Home Rule
Dulce et Decorum Est
Committee of Public Safety
Emmeline Prankhurst
28. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Whigs
Brezhnev Doctrine
Benito Mussolini
Austro-Piedmontese War
29. 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.'
Kronstadt
Sergei Witte
Absolutism
Bishop Bossuet
30. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Directory
Spanish-American War
Adam Smith
31. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Final Solution
Kronstadt
War of Austrian Succession
White Russians
32. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Frederick the Great
Enclosure movement
Quadruple Alliance
Lenin and Trotsky
33. 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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34. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Vichy Regime
Reform Bill
Denis Diderot
35. 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.
Triple Alliance
Oliver Cromwell
Panther
Allies
36. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Joseph II
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Ottoman empire dissolved
Herbert Spencer
37. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Third International
Dual Monarchy
Fabian Society
Atlantic Charter
38. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
fire at the Reichstag
Continental System
Edict of Nantes
Social Democratic Party
39. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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40. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Franco-Prussian War
The Glorious Revolution
Fascist Party
41. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Dual Monarchy
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
Charles Albert
42. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Vladimir Lenin
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kulaks
43. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Austria-Hungary
Fascist Party
Soviet-Afghan War
44. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Louis XIV
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Concert of Europe
Kronstadt
45. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Charles Albert
Treaty of Tilsit
Absolutism
46. 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.
Concert of Europe
Rene Descartes
Girondins
Free French
47. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Axis Powers
ultraroyalists
Atlantic Charter
48. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Reform Bill
Holy Alliance
Volksgeist
Joseph Stalin
49. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Kronstadt
Boer War
Jean Paul Marat
Kaiser Wilhelm I
50. Discovered radium.
Thermidorian Reaction
Marie Curie
Edict of Nantes
ancien regime