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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Napoleon
Quadruple Alliance
Treaty of London
Robert Koch
2. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Utilitarianism
Peter the Great
Triple Entente
3. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of Frankfurt
Oliver Cromwell
Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
ultraroyalists
Edmund Burke
Catherine the Great
Treaty of London
5. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Battle of the Bulge
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
6. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Giuseppe Mazzini
Triple Entente
Korean War
7. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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8. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Congress of Vienna
Atlantic Charter
Jacobins
Marshall plan
9. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Edinburgh
Treaty of Frankfurt
Axis Powers
Russo-Japanese War
10. 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.
Congress of Vienna
Free French
Cecil Rhodes.
Declaration of Pillnitz
11. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Nikita Khrushchev
Dual Monarchy
Berlin Conference
Ferdinand VII
12. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Bradenburg-Prussia
First and Second International
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Eichmann
13. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Charles X
English Civil War
Lusitania
Georges Jacques Danton
14. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Emelyn Pugachev
Free French
Denis Diderot
Triple Entente
15. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Joseph II
Treaty of Paris
fire at the Reichstag
Assembly of Notables
16. 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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17. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
New Economic Policy
Franz Ferdinand
Social Democratic Party
Benito Mussolini
18. 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
Oliver Cromwell
Bradenburg-Prussia
Isaac Newton
19. 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.
Central Powers.
Zimmerman telegram
Black Shirt March
Eastern Question
20. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Edinburgh
Battle of the Bulge
Russo-Japanese War
Third International
21. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Panther
Emmeline Prankhurst
Edinburgh
Count Cavour
22. 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.
Allies
Enigma
North German Confederation
Holy Alliance
23. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Russian Revolution
Oliver Cromwell
British East India Company
Marshall plan
24. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Stalingrad
Treaty of London
soviets
25. 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
Edward Gibbon
Zimmerman telegram
John Locke
Enclosure movement
26. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Louis Philippe I
Jean Paul Marat
Emmanuel Sieyes
Treaty of London
27. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Vichy Regime
Emelyn Pugachev
John Stuart Mill
28. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
North German Confederation
Edward Gibbon
Soviet-Afghan War
29. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
X-Ray
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Red Russians
William Gladstone
30. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Adam Smith
Reform Bill
Benito Mussolini
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
31. 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.
X-Ray
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Joseph Stalin
British East India Company
32. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Boer War
Benjamin Disraeli
Dual Monarchy
Atlantic Charter
33. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Stalingrad
Berlin Conference
Kronstadt
Austria-Hungary
34. 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.
William Gladstone
Isaac Newton
Adolf Eichmann
Enigma
35. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Bishop Bossuet
Mary Wollstonecraft
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Girondins
36. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Congress of Vienna
Red Russians
37. 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
Assembly of Notables
Home Rule
Georges Jacques Danton
Isaac Newton
38. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Peter the Great
Joseph Stalin
Central Powers.
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
Paracelsus
Jean Paul Marat
Cecil Rhodes.
Girondins
40. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Assembly of Notables
Adolf Eichmann
Potsdam
White Russians
41. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Malthus
Panther
42. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Edict of Nantes
ancien regime
Concert of Europe
43. A military draft
Reform Bill
Isaac Newton
Committee of Public Safety
conscription
44. 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
Dual Monarchy
Jacobins
Berlin Conference
45. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Andrew Carnegie
Friedrich Nietzsche
46. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Vladimir Lenin
Easter Rising
Atlantic Charter
Tories
47. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Nazi
Edict of Nantes
Lusitania
48. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Dual Monarchy
Enigma
Final Solution
49. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
X-Ray
Seven Year's War
Emelyn Pugachev
Red Russians
50. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Red Russians
Georges Jacques Danton
Sergei Witte
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