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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.


4. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.






5. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.






6. A Jewish British prime minister.






7. 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.






8. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.






9. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.






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






11. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.






12. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.






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






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






15. 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.






16. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.






17. 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.






18. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.






19. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.






20. Germany - Italy - and Japan






21. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.






22. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.






23. A military draft






24. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.






25. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.






26. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.






27. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.






28. Greater freedom for Ireland.






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






30. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)






31. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.






32. First to develop and write a book on the heliocentric theory - 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.' It was placed on the index of prohibited books






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






34. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.






35. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.






36. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'






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






38. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.






39. Britain and America






40. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.






41. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.






42. (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






43. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






49. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.






50. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.