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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Bishop Bossuet
British East India Company
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ferdinand VII
2. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Leipzig
Fabian Society
Third International
Atlantic Charter
3. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Treaty of Tilsit
Girondins
Legislative Assembly
4. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Final Solution
Axis Powers
Robert Koch
5. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Petition of Rights
War of Austrian Succession
Red Russians
6. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Adam Smith
Tories
John Locke
7. A Jewish British prime minister.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Herbert Spencer
Benjamin Disraeli
Soviet-Afghan War
8. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Black Shirt March
Benjamin Disraeli
Jean Paul Marat
Lenin and Trotsky
9. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Heinrich Himmler
Allies
Joseph II
Girondins
10. 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
fire at the Reichstag
New Economic Policy
ancien regime
The Glorious Revolution
11. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Soviet-Afghan War
Adam Smith
Treaty of Tilsit
Treaty of London
12. 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
Isaac Newton
Red Russians
Dual Monarchy
Enigma
13. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
John Locke
Edict of Nantes
Public Health Act
Dulce et Decorum Est
14. 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
Public Health Act
Dutch Republic
Thermidor
Johannes Kepler
15. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Battle of the Bulge
Jacobins
Gottfried Leibniz
English Civil War
16. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Mary Wollstonecraft
Petition of Rights
Vichy Regime
17. 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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18. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
John Rockefeller
Charles Montesquieu
Sergei Witte
Factory Act
19. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Triple Entente
New Economic Policy
Sergei Witte
Home Rule
20. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Count Cavour
Daimler and Benz
Home Rule
fire at the Reichstag
21. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles Montesquieu
Oliver Cromwell
Peter the Great
22. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Johannes Kepler
Treaty of Paris
Galileo Galilei
Soviet-Afghan War
23. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Nikita Khrushchev
Triple Alliance
24. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Public Health Act
Warsaw Pact
Franco-Prussian War
25. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Kronstadt
Giuseppe Mazzini
Fascist Party
26. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
William Gladstone
Dual Monarchy
Thirty Years' War
Battle of the Somme
27. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Frederick the Great
Red Russians
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
28. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
ultraroyalists
Georges Jacques Danton
fire at the Reichstag
vanguard
29. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
X-Ray
Edinburgh
Spanish Civil War
Triple Entente
30. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
'Turnip' Townsend
Kronstadt
Fascist Party
ultraroyalists
31. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Whigs
Continental System
Easter Rising
32. 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.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Treaty of London
Berlin Conference
Joseph II
33. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Seven Year's War
Revolution from Above
Labour Party
Edmund Burke
34. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Edmund Burke
Thermidor
Central Powers.
conscription
35. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Legislative Assembly
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Frankfurt
36. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Seven Year's War
Easter Rising
Eastern Question
37. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Copernicus
Boer War
Franco-Prussian War
38. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Marshall plan
Count Cavour
Napoleon
Transcendentalists
39. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
John F. Kennedy
Daimler and Benz
Volksgeist
Dutch Republic
40. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Edmund Burke
Atlantic Charter
Austria-Hungary
Free French
41. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Secularization
Nikita Khrushchev
Jean Paul Marat
42. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Eastern Question
Lateran Pact
Russian Revolution
43. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Catherine the Great
Count Cavour
Panther
44. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Lateran Pact
First and Second International
Benjamin Disraeli
Leipzig
45. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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46. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Adam Smith
Herbert Spencer
Allies
Reform Bill
47. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Thermidorian Reaction
Lenin and Trotsky
Herbert Spencer
48. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Revisionists
Denis Diderot
Directory
Kaiser Wilhelm I
49. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Volksgeist
Public Health Act
Nazi
Herbert Spencer
50. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Franz Ferdinand
Concert of Europe
Heinrich Himmler