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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Ptolemy
Charles X
War of Austrian Succession
2. 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.
Frederick the Great
Central Powers.
Blaise Pascal
Edinburgh
3. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
soviets
Johannes Kepler
Georges Jacques Danton
4. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
John Stuart Mill
Nazi
Thomas Malthus
5. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Utilitarianism
Stalingrad
Dulce et Decorum Est
Francois Voltaire
6. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Labour Party
Assembly of Notables
Steel
James Watt
7. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Catherine the Great
Assembly of Notables
Thomas Malthus
Panther
8. Important ZIONIST.
Benito Mussolini
Theodore Herzl
Lenin and Trotsky
James Watt
9. 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
William Gladstone
Directory
Brezhnev Doctrine
10. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Oliver Cromwell
Kronstadt
Copernicus
Reform Bill
11. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Edmund Burke
Franz Ferdinand
Peter the Great
Andrew Carnegie
12. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Allies
English Civil War
Jacobins
French Revolution of 1848
13. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Francois Voltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treaty of Tilsit
Warsaw Pact
14. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
War of Austrian Succession
Franco-Prussian War
Emelyn Pugachev
Axis Powers
15. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Daimler and Benz
Louis XIV
John Rockefeller
Spanish Civil War
16. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Jacobins
Edmund Burke
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Andrew Carnegie
17. Britain and America
Georges Jacques Danton
Ferdinand VII
Gottfried Leibniz
Allied Powers
18. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Johannes Kepler
Red Russians
Revolution from Above
Fascist Party
19. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
First and Second International
Holy Alliance
Vladimir Lenin
Spanish-American War
20. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Absolutism
Girondins
Public Health Act
Triple Alliance
21. Founded the Salvation Army
New Economic Policy
Legislative Assembly
French Revolution of 1848
William and Catherine Booth
22. A Jewish British prime minister.
Thermidor
Girondins
fire at the Reichstag
Benjamin Disraeli
23. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Ferdinand VII
ancien regime
Battle of the Somme
Edmund Burke
24. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Triple Entente
Utilitarianism
Robert Koch
Boer War
25. 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.
Joseph Stalin
Volksgeist
Directory
Joseph II
26. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Seven Weeks' War
Lusitania
Treaty of Tilsit
Benjamin Disraeli
27. 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.
Russo-Japanese War
Stalingrad
Third International
Edward Gibbon
28. 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.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Holy Alliance
Triple Entente
Charles X
29. 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.
Rene Descartes
Daimler and Benz
Bradenburg-Prussia
Revisionists
30. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Charles Montesquieu
Assembly of Notables
Andrew Carnegie
31. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Benito Mussolini
fire at the Reichstag
Secularization
X-Ray
32. 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
Seven Year's War
Charles Albert
Black Shirt March
33. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Leipzig
Spanish Civil War
Fabian Society
34. 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.
Dual Monarchy
Paracelsus
Reform Bill
soviets
35. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Allies
Lenin and Trotsky
Fabian Society
Boer War
36. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Revisionists
Allied Powers
British East India Company
37. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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38. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Black Shirt March
Spanish Civil War
Volksgeist
Legislative Assembly
39. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Blaise Pascal
Greek Revolution
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
40. 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
Peter the Great
Treaty of Frankfurt
Joseph Stalin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
41. 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.
Congress of Vienna
White Russians
Boer War
Warsaw Pact
42. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Factory Act
Edward Gibbon
Russian Revolution
Charles Montesquieu
43. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
The Glorious Revolution
Panther
Ferdinand VII
Blaise Pascal
44. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Kronstadt
Emmeline Prankhurst
Potsdam
45. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Home Rule
Gottfried Leibniz
Nazi
Atlantic Charter
46. 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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47. A military draft
conscription
Public Health Act
Gottfried Leibniz
Assembly of Notables
48. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Battle of the Somme
Jacobins
Catherine the Great
49. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Austria-Hungary
Atlantic Charter
Revisionists
Chartist Movement
50. 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)
Marie Curie
Benito Mussolini
Seven Year's War
Panther