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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Emmeline Prankhurst
Crimean War
Declaration of Pillnitz
2. 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.
Volksgeist
John Rockefeller
Continental System
conscription
3. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Congress of Vienna
Benito Mussolini
Catherine the Great
4. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
William Gladstone
Social Democratic Party
Charles X
Franz Ferdinand
5. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Potsdam
Edmund Burke
Legislative Assembly
War of Austrian Succession
6. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
North German Confederation
Benito Mussolini
Mary Wollstonecraft
Herbert Spencer
7. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Quadruple Alliance
Isaac Newton
Vichy Regime
8. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Edmund Burke
Fascist Party
John Locke
Denis Diderot
9. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Assembly of Notables
Thermidorian Reaction
Benjamin Disraeli
X-Ray
10. 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
Adam Smith
Eastern Question
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
11. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Ferdinand VII
Revolution from Above
Fabian Society
12. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Fascist Party
Free French
The Glorious Revolution
Edmund Burke
13. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Spanish Civil War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Ptolemy
Jean Paul Marat
14. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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15. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cecil Rhodes.
Potsdam
16. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Red Russians
Johannes Kepler
Revolution from Above
17. 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
Third International
Black Shirt March
Enigma
Zimmerman telegram
18. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Continental System
Committee of Public Safety
Robert Koch
Quadruple Alliance
19. 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.
Black Shirt March
Treaty of Paris
Ottoman empire dissolved
North German Confederation
20. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Holy Alliance
Georges Jacques Danton
Continental System
Treaty of London
21. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Panther
William and Catherine Booth
Lenin and Trotsky
Vesalius
22. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Heinrich Himmler
X-Ray
Giueseppe Garibaldi
William Gladstone
23. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Oliver Cromwell
ultraroyalists
Potsdam
24. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Brezhnev Doctrine
Dulce et Decorum Est
Napoleon
Triple Alliance
25. 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.'
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Sergei Witte
Bishop Bossuet
Austro-Hungarian Empire
26. Founded the Salvation Army
Tories
William and Catherine Booth
Triple Alliance
Vichy Regime
27. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Frederick the Great
Joseph Stalin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Sir Francis Bacon
William and Catherine Booth
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Legislative Assembly
29. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Edinburgh
Peter the Great
30. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Emmeline Prankhurst
Korean War
fire at the Reichstag
31. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Congress of Vienna
English Civil War
Revisionists
Battle of the Bulge
32. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Dutch Republic
Count Cavour
Edinburgh
Final Solution
33. 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.
Georges Jacques Danton
Russian Revolution
Concert of Europe
Greek Revolution
34. 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.
Allied Powers
Frederick the Great
Edict of Nantes
Battle of the Somme
35. Important ZIONIST.
Home Rule
Theodore Herzl
Free French
Factory Act
36. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Petition of Rights
Quadruple Alliance
Franco-Prussian War
Utilitarianism
37. 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.
Charles X
Nikita Khrushchev
Thermidorian Reaction
Tories
38. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Triple Alliance
White Russians
Giuseppe Mazzini
39. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
White Russians
Seven Weeks' War
Charles Albert
40. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Charles X
Secularization
Dulce et Decorum Est
Treaty of Tilsit
41. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Thomas Malthus
French Revolution of 1848
Secularization
Holy Alliance
42. 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.
Marie Curie
Edward Gibbon
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
North German Confederation
43. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Dual Monarchy
Congress of Vienna
Thomas Malthus
44. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
William and Catherine Booth
Nazi
White Russians
Brezhnev Doctrine
45. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Heinrich Himmler
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Triple Alliance
Count Cavour
46. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Oliver Cromwell
Dulce et Decorum Est
Berlin Conference
47. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Stuart Mill
British East India Company
John Rockefeller
Treaty of London
48. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Home Rule
Paracelsus
Jacobins
Giueseppe Garibaldi
49. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
fire at the Reichstag
Mary Wollstonecraft
James Watt
Blaise Pascal
50. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Quadruple Alliance
John Stuart Mill
ancien regime
Kaiser Wilhelm I