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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Kronstadt
Chartist Movement
Marie Curie
Gottfried Leibniz
2. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Edinburgh
Committee of Public Safety
Potsdam
Spanish-American War
3. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Heinrich Himmler
French Revolution of 1848
Franco-Prussian War
Absolutism
4. 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.
Enigma
Black Shirt March
Fabian Society
Joseph II
5. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Heinrich Himmler
Atlantic Charter
Marie Curie
Benito Mussolini
6. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Russian Revolution
Thermidorian Reaction
Reform Bill
Herbert Spencer
7. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Crimean War
Edinburgh
Whigs
8. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Russo-Japanese War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Factory Act
Chartist Movement
9. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Franz Ferdinand
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Brezhnev Doctrine
10. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Thomas Malthus
Emmeline Prankhurst
Enigma
Home Rule
11. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Berlin Conference
John Rockefeller
Leipzig
Joseph Stalin
12. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Georges Jacques Danton
Nikita Khrushchev
Copernicus
Eastern Question
13. A military draft
Andrew Carnegie
conscription
Greek Revolution
Spanish Civil War
14. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Benito Mussolini
Easter Rising
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Allied Powers
15. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Edward Gibbon
Volksgeist
Louis XIV
16. 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
conscription
Isaac Newton
Labour Party
Edward Gibbon
17. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Fascist Party
Daimler and Benz
Thomas Malthus
18. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Ptolemy
Assembly of Notables
Revisionists
Blaise Pascal
19. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Edmund Burke
Cecil Rhodes.
Zimmerman telegram
White Russians
20. 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.
Charles Albert
Holy Alliance
Lateran Pact
Chartist Movement
21. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Atlantic Charter
Thermidorian Reaction
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Count Cavour
22. 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.
Utilitarianism
Berlin Conference
Lenin and Trotsky
Congress of Vienna
23. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
White Russians
ultraroyalists
Cecil Rhodes.
Allied Powers
24. 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
Thomas Malthus
Utilitarianism
Russo-Japanese War
25. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Louis XIV
Seven Weeks' War
Frederick the Great
26. (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
Cecil Rhodes.
War of Austrian Succession
Spanish-American War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
27. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Revolution from Above
Committee of Public Safety
British East India Company
Sir Francis Bacon
28. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Tories
Warsaw Pact
Fascist Party
Stalingrad
29. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Paracelsus
Battle of the Bulge
30. Extermination of the Jews.
Louis Philippe I
Galileo Galilei
Final Solution
Treaty of Tilsit
31. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
French Revolution of 1848
ancien regime
Lateran Pact
James Watt
32. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Assembly of Notables
Seven Year's War
Legislative Assembly
33. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Warsaw Pact
Cecil Rhodes.
Edward Gibbon
34. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Steel
Isaac Newton
Chartist Movement
Brezhnev Doctrine
35. 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.
Third International
Louis XIV
Treaty of Tilsit
Napoleon
36. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Francois Voltaire
Fascist Party
Boer War
37. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
Lusitania
Vladimir Lenin
Enclosure movement
38. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Georges Jacques Danton
Johannes Kepler
William Gladstone
Emmanuel Sieyes
39. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Reform Bill
William and Catherine Booth
Georges Jacques Danton
40. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enigma
Enclosure movement
Joseph Stalin
Theodore Herzl
41. 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.
Triple Alliance
Nazi
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Boer War
42. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Congress of Vienna
Secularization
Allies
43. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
44. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Treaty of Tilsit
Leipzig
Eastern Question
Adolf Eichmann
45. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Thermidorian Reaction
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Rene Descartes
Secularization
46. 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
British East India Company
Vladimir Lenin
John Locke
Giueseppe Garibaldi
47. 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.'
Dutch Republic
Charles X
Mary Wollstonecraft
Peter the Great
48. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
conscription
Sergei Witte
Concert of Europe
Thomas Malthus
49. 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.
Enclosure movement
Fascist Party
Secularization
Charles X
50. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Adolf Eichmann
North German Confederation
Holy Alliance