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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Transcendentalists
Declaration of Pillnitz
Ottoman empire dissolved
Crimean War
2. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Triple Entente
Korean War
British East India Company
Blaise Pascal
3. 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
4. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Blaise Pascal
Boer War
White Russians
Rene Descartes
5. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Sir Francis Bacon
Fascist Party
John Stuart Mill
Dual Monarchy
6. 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.
James Watt
Oliver Cromwell
Eastern Question
Treaty of Paris
7. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Public Health Act
Revolution from Above
Edict of Nantes
Battle of Adowa
8. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Joseph II
Benito Mussolini
Russian Revolution
9. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Volksgeist
John F. Kennedy
Berlin Conference
Leipzig
10. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Charles Montesquieu
Benito Mussolini
Volksgeist
11. 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
Thermidor
Public Health Act
Treaty of Frankfurt
12. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Berlin Conference
Factory Act
Denis Diderot
Oliver Cromwell
13. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Thermidor
Edinburgh
Absolutism
14. 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
Copernicus
Sir Francis Bacon
Emelyn Pugachev
Robert Koch
15. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Leipzig
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Heinrich Himmler
Jacobins
16. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Blaise Pascal
Crimean War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Soviet-Afghan War
17. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Soviet-Afghan War
Battle of the Bulge
Copernicus
Brezhnev Doctrine
18. 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
Paris Commune
vanguard
19. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Boer War
Adolf Eichmann
Atlantic Charter
Austro-Hungarian Empire
20. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Chartist Movement
Frederick the Great
Triple Entente
Final Solution
21. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Lenin and Trotsky
Final Solution
Robert Koch
Thomas Malthus
22. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Fascist Party
Volksgeist
Third International
23. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Dulce et Decorum Est
English Civil War
Red Russians
Seven Weeks' War
24. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Spanish-American War
William and Catherine Booth
Daimler and Benz
New Economic Policy
25. 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).
Panther
Georges Jacques Danton
Enclosure movement
Greek Revolution
26. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Easter Rising
Vladimir Lenin
Georges Jacques Danton
ultraroyalists
27. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Reform Bill
Lateran Pact
Labour Party
28. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Paracelsus
Vichy Regime
Edinburgh
Herbert Spencer
29. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Daimler and Benz
Francois Voltaire
X-Ray
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
30. 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.
White Russians
British East India Company
John Stuart Mill
First and Second International
31. 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.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Tories
Joseph II
Napoleon
32. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Stalingrad
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Fascist Party
Kronstadt
33. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Robert Koch
Spanish Civil War
Allied Powers
Andrew Carnegie
34. 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)
John Rockefeller
Edward Gibbon
Triple Alliance
Benito Mussolini
35. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Eastern Question
John F. Kennedy
Adam Smith
36. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Third International
Greek Revolution
Rene Descartes
Kaiser Wilhelm I
37. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Assembly of Notables
John Locke
Treaty of Tilsit
Battle of the Somme
38. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Lateran Pact
soviets
Home Rule
39. 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
Free French
Enigma
Vichy Regime
40. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
41. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Spanish-American War
Russo-Japanese War
Georges Jacques Danton
42. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Battle of the Bulge
Kulaks
Gottfried Leibniz
Lenin and Trotsky
43. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Heinrich Himmler
English Civil War
ancien regime
Home Rule
44. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Third International
Berlin Conference
Russo-Japanese War
John F. Kennedy
45. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Robert Koch
White Russians
Revisionists
John F. Kennedy
46. 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.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Benjamin Disraeli
Holy Alliance
Marshall plan
47. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
John Stuart Mill
Dual Monarchy
Treaty of Tilsit
Heinrich Himmler
48. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Berlin Conference
Sergei Witte
English Civil War
Crimean War
49. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Oliver Cromwell
Louis Philippe I
Absolutism
Fabian Society
50. 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
New Economic Policy
Seven Year's War
Free French
Zimmerman telegram