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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Andrew Carnegie
Count Cavour
Frederick the Great
'Turnip' Townsend
2. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Allies
Absolutism
Herbert Spencer
3. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Continental System
Marshall plan
Rene Descartes
British East India Company
4. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Charles X
Enclosure movement
Ottoman empire dissolved
English Civil War
5. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Adolf Eichmann
Fabian Society
Spanish Civil War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
6. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Zimmerman telegram
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Emmeline Prankhurst
North German Confederation
7. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Lateran Pact
soviets
Eastern Question
Seven Year's War
8. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Tories
Triple Alliance
Vladimir Lenin
Kulaks
9. 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
Spanish-American War
Enclosure movement
Spanish Civil War
10. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Girondins
Dutch Republic
Public Health Act
11. Britain and America
Warsaw Pact
Secularization
Allied Powers
Dulce et Decorum Est
12. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
John F. Kennedy
Stalingrad
John Locke
Allied Powers
13. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Holy Alliance
Daimler and Benz
Charles Montesquieu
Joseph II
14. 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.
Factory Act
Benito Mussolini
Tories
Joseph II
15. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Directory
Ferdinand VII
Eastern Question
16. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Thermidorian Reaction
Factory Act
Heinrich Himmler
Panther
17. 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.
Fabian Society
Petition of Rights
Edict of Nantes
The Glorious Revolution
18. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Committee of Public Safety
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Georges Jacques Danton
19. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Denis Diderot
'Turnip' Townsend
Joseph II
Committee of Public Safety
20. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Emelyn Pugachev
Oliver Cromwell
Secularization
John Rockefeller
21. 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.
Steel
Thermidor
Battle of Adowa
Revisionists
22. 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
'Turnip' Townsend
Edict of Nantes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
23. 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
Edmund Burke
Adolf Eichmann
Copernicus
Vichy Regime
24. 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
Jean Paul Marat
Thermidor
Johannes Kepler
John Stuart Mill
25. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Cecil Rhodes.
Easter Rising
ultraroyalists
Andrew Carnegie
26. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Emelyn Pugachev
Triple Entente
James Watt
'Turnip' Townsend
27. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Red Russians
Emmanuel Sieyes
Ottoman empire dissolved
John F. Kennedy
28. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
X-Ray
Free French
Adam Smith
29. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Louis Philippe I
Fabian Society
Seven Weeks' War
English Civil War
30. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Dutch Republic
William Gladstone
Austro-Piedmontese War
Quadruple Alliance
31. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Ptolemy
Vladimir Lenin
Panther
Kronstadt
32. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Committee of Public Safety
Volksgeist
Berlin Conference
33. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
English Civil War
Charles Montesquieu
Leipzig
Atlantic Charter
34. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Greek Revolution
Bishop Bossuet
North German Confederation
35. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Louis XIV
Paracelsus
Adam Smith
Steel
36. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
soviets
Marshall plan
Absolutism
Treaty of Tilsit
37. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Battle of the Bulge
Rene Descartes
Herbert Spencer
Nikita Khrushchev
38. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Kronstadt
Catherine the Great
Spanish-American War
39. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Giuseppe Mazzini
Triple Alliance
Stalingrad
Charles Montesquieu
40. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Battle of the Bulge
Edinburgh
Home Rule
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
John Locke
Edinburgh
Kulaks
Chartist Movement
42. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Legislative Assembly
Declaration of Pillnitz
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jacobins
43. 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.
Petition of Rights
Social Democratic Party
Russian Revolution
Cecil Rhodes.
44. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Marshall plan
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Zimmerman telegram
Paris Commune
45. 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.'
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Andrew Carnegie
Copernicus
Bishop Bossuet
46. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
English Civil War
Boer War
Korean War
Denis Diderot
47. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vesalius
Louis XIV
Holy Alliance
48. 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.
Ptolemy
John Rockefeller
Third International
Legislative Assembly
49. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Girondins
Sergei Witte
Atlantic Charter
English Civil War
50. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Isaac Newton
Rene Descartes
Treaty of Frankfurt
Joseph Stalin
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