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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Battle of Adowa
Steel
Dulce et Decorum Est
Panther
2. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Battle of the Bulge
vanguard
Isaac Newton
Lenin and Trotsky
3. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
conscription
Thermidor
French Revolution of 1848
Edmund Burke
4. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Adam Smith
Marshall plan
Ferdinand VII
Blaise Pascal
5. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Nazi
Reform Bill
Treaty of Frankfurt
Fabian Society
6. 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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7. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Paracelsus
Mary Wollstonecraft
Oliver Cromwell
William and Catherine Booth
8. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Greek Revolution
Allies
Revolution from Above
Oliver Cromwell
9. 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.
Transcendentalists
Treaty of Frankfurt
Lenin and Trotsky
Holy Alliance
10. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Peter the Great
Thermidor
Emelyn Pugachev
11. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Ferdinand VII
Potsdam
Gottfried Leibniz
Kulaks
12. 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.
Blaise Pascal
John Rockefeller
Soviet-Afghan War
The Glorious Revolution
13. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Vladimir Lenin
White Russians
Herbert Spencer
Boer War
14. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Steel
Charles X
Paris Commune
soviets
15. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Georges Jacques Danton
Volksgeist
Greek Revolution
Treaty of London
16. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Concert of Europe
Quadruple Alliance
Crimean War
Revisionists
17. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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18. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Volksgeist
Declaration of Pillnitz
Daimler and Benz
19. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Fascist Party
Kulaks
Napoleon
20. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Factory Act
Sir Francis Bacon
Catherine the Great
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
21. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Brezhnev Doctrine
vanguard
Count Cavour
Giueseppe Garibaldi
22. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Utilitarianism
Vesalius
Bradenburg-Prussia
Berlin Conference
23. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Cecil Rhodes.
Revolution from Above
Steel
24. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
fire at the Reichstag
Treaty of Frankfurt
Committee of Public Safety
Warsaw Pact
25. 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.
Jacobins
Red Russians
Congress of Vienna
Count Cavour
26. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
conscription
Charles X
Charles Montesquieu
First and Second International
27. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
John F. Kennedy
Ferdinand VII
Charles Albert
Benito Mussolini
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.
Free French
Fascist Party
Charles X
Austro-Hungarian Empire
29. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Copernicus
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Treaty of London
30. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Spanish Civil War
Soviet-Afghan War
Nikita Khrushchev
William Gladstone
31. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Austria-Hungary
Dulce et Decorum Est
Quadruple Alliance
32. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
William Gladstone
Paracelsus
Edinburgh
Thomas Malthus
33. 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
Spanish Civil War
Thermidorian Reaction
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Warsaw Pact
34. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Giuseppe Mazzini
Absolutism
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
35. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Central Powers.
Stalingrad
James Watt
36. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Bishop Bossuet
Treaty of Tilsit
Final Solution
X-Ray
37. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Emelyn Pugachev
ancien regime
Warsaw Pact
Austro-Hungarian Empire
38. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Lateran Pact
Charles X
Jacobins
Thomas Malthus
39. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Battle of the Somme
Lenin and Trotsky
Factory Act
Eastern Question
40. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Lateran Pact
Social Democratic Party
Johannes Kepler
41. 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)
Benito Mussolini
Spanish Civil War
Adolf Eichmann
Friedrich Nietzsche
42. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Third International
Korean War
Nazi
43. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Warsaw Pact
Directory
Allies
Austria-Hungary
44. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Copernicus
conscription
Paris Commune
45. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Paracelsus
Treaty of Paris
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
46. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
John F. Kennedy
Revisionists
Triple Entente
Utilitarianism
47. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Absolutism
Kronstadt
Benjamin Disraeli
Marie Curie
48. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Kulaks
Austro-Piedmontese War
Blaise Pascal
Kronstadt
49. 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.
Reform Bill
Girondins
William Gladstone
Atlantic Charter
50. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Red Russians
Leipzig
Battle of the Somme
Sergei Witte