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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.






2. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.






3. 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.






4. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.






5. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.






6. 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.






7. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.






8. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.






9. Soviet counterpart to NATO






10. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.






14. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs

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15. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.






16. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.






17. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.






18. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.






19. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.






20. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy






21. 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).






22. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.






23. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.






24. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.






25. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.






26. 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.






27. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed






28. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.






29. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.






30. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.






31. 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.






32. Greater freedom for Ireland.






33. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.






34. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.






35. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.






36. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.






37. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION






38. Important ZIONIST.






39. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.






40. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.






41. 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.






42. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI






43. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.






44. 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.






45. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.






46. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w






47. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.






48. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.






49. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.






50. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.