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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Paracelsus
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Malthus
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
2. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Factory Act
Austro-Piedmontese War
Denis Diderot
Korean War
3. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Girondins
First and Second International
Allies
4. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Spanish-American War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Johannes Kepler
5. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Austria-Hungary
Brezhnev Doctrine
White Russians
Treaty of Frankfurt
6. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Thermidorian Reaction
7. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Jacobins
John Stuart Mill
French Revolution of 1848
The Glorious Revolution
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.
Vladimir Lenin
Johannes Kepler
Thomas Malthus
Potsdam
9. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Seven Weeks' War
Soviet-Afghan War
John Stuart Mill
'Turnip' Townsend
10. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Quadruple Alliance
Korean War
Girondins
Lenin and Trotsky
11. Founded the Salvation Army
Denis Diderot
William and Catherine Booth
Thomas Malthus
War of Austrian Succession
12. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Adam Smith
Adolf Eichmann
War of Austrian Succession
13. 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.
Kronstadt
Enigma
Ferdinand VII
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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
conscription
Copernicus
Adam Smith
'Turnip' Townsend
15. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Count Cavour
Warsaw Pact
Marie Curie
Charles Montesquieu
16. A Jewish British prime minister.
Reform Bill
Free French
Benjamin Disraeli
William Gladstone
17. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Austria-Hungary
Spanish-American War
Rene Descartes
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
18. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Factory Act
ancien regime
Russian Revolution
Edward Gibbon
19. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
ultraroyalists
Sergei Witte
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Edward Gibbon
20. 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.
Lusitania
Benjamin Disraeli
Dual Monarchy
Transcendentalists
21. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Potsdam
Robert Koch
Enclosure movement
Vladimir Lenin
22. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Central Powers.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Eastern Question
Directory
23. 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
Declaration of Pillnitz
Warsaw Pact
Isaac Newton
Axis Powers
24. 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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25. 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.
Red Russians
Charles X
Francois Voltaire
North German Confederation
26. 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.
Spanish Civil War
Korean War
Russian Revolution
Copernicus
27. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Battle of the Somme
Nazi
Atlantic Charter
New Economic Policy
28. 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.
Petition of Rights
Atlantic Charter
Daimler and Benz
Continental System
29. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Stalingrad
Leipzig
White Russians
Secularization
30. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Continental System
Revisionists
Bishop Bossuet
Lusitania
31. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Daimler and Benz
Social Democratic Party
Enclosure movement
Georges Jacques Danton
32. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Frederick the Great
Edict of Nantes
Berlin Conference
Jacobins
33. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Seven Weeks' War
Assembly of Notables
Whigs
Greek Revolution
34. 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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35. 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.
Social Democratic Party
Declaration of Pillnitz
Final Solution
Third International
36. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Paracelsus
Congress of Vienna
Austria-Hungary
37. 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
John Locke
Boer War
Austro-Piedmontese War
38. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Easter Rising
Transcendentalists
Austria-Hungary
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
39. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Free French
Treaty of Tilsit
Vesalius
Sergei Witte
40. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Jacobins
Eastern Question
Kulaks
41. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Holy Alliance
ultraroyalists
Lusitania
Warsaw Pact
42. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Leipzig
Absolutism
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Axis Powers
43. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
New Economic Policy
John F. Kennedy
Emmanuel Sieyes
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.
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Louis Philippe I
Franco-Prussian War
45. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Treaty of London
Greek Revolution
Herbert Spencer
Oliver Cromwell
46. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Denis Diderot
Transcendentalists
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
47. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Directory
ultraroyalists
Allied Powers
48. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
ancien regime
Charles Albert
Emelyn Pugachev
Absolutism
49. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Quadruple Alliance
Marshall plan
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Francois Voltaire
50. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Assembly of Notables
Enigma
Gottfried Leibniz
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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