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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Enclosure movement
Nikita Khrushchev
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Atlantic Charter
2. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Warsaw Pact
The Glorious Revolution
Volksgeist
3. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Chartist Movement
Paris Commune
Ottoman empire dissolved
Girondins
4. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Denis Diderot
Battle of the Somme
Sergei Witte
Georges Jacques Danton
5. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Axis Powers
British East India Company
John Stuart Mill
Vesalius
6. 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.
Triple Alliance
Peter the Great
Heinrich Himmler
Blaise Pascal
7. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Greek Revolution
John Stuart Mill
8. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Thermidorian Reaction
Emmeline Prankhurst
Crimean War
9. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Emelyn Pugachev
Benito Mussolini
Allies
10. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Tories
Marshall plan
Gottfried Leibniz
Sergei Witte
11. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
conscription
Potsdam
Emelyn Pugachev
Dulce et Decorum Est
12. Important ZIONIST.
Ptolemy
Fabian Society
Theodore Herzl
First and Second International
13. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Theodore Herzl
Continental System
Treaty of London
14. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Giueseppe Garibaldi
John F. Kennedy
Holy Alliance
15. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
X-Ray
Dual Monarchy
Triple Alliance
Nazi
16. 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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17. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Paracelsus
Enclosure movement
Soviet-Afghan War
fire at the Reichstag
18. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Marshall plan
New Economic Policy
John Stuart Mill
19. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Blaise Pascal
Ferdinand VII
Volksgeist
Free French
20. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Legislative Assembly
X-Ray
Allies
21. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Edinburgh
Final Solution
Axis Powers
conscription
22. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Thomas Malthus
Zimmerman telegram
Herbert Spencer
23. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Labour Party
Reform Bill
Social Democratic Party
24. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Concert of Europe
Blaise Pascal
Warsaw Pact
25. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Jacobins
Congress of Vienna
Free French
Declaration of Pillnitz
26. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
soviets
Spanish Civil War
Johannes Kepler
Austria-Hungary
27. 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.
Jacobins
Lateran Pact
Georges Jacques Danton
Edict of Nantes
28. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Legislative Assembly
Kronstadt
Treaty of Tilsit
John Locke
29. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Thermidor
Panther
Austria-Hungary
Kaiser Wilhelm I
30. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
X-Ray
Jean Paul Marat
Home Rule
Panther
31. 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
Adam Smith
Ptolemy
The Glorious Revolution
Louis XIV
32. 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.'
Giuseppe Mazzini
Allies
Catherine the Great
Bishop Bossuet
33. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Battle of Adowa
Austria-Hungary
Vichy Regime
34. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Potsdam
Kulaks
Declaration of Pillnitz
Andrew Carnegie
35. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Final Solution
Third International
Edmund Burke
Berlin Conference
36. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Andrew Carnegie
Thirty Years' War
Charles Montesquieu
Public Health Act
37. 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
Treaty of Tilsit
Emmeline Prankhurst
Thermidorian Reaction
Franz Ferdinand
38. 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
Stalingrad
Chartist Movement
Jean Paul Marat
39. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Johannes Kepler
Giuseppe Mazzini
ancien regime
Russo-Japanese War
40. 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
Georges Jacques Danton
Marshall plan
Paris Commune
Spanish Civil War
41. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Final Solution
Ferdinand VII
Warsaw Pact
42. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Edward Gibbon
soviets
Boer War
Francois Voltaire
43. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Georges Jacques Danton
John Stuart Mill
Public Health Act
Secularization
44. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Emelyn Pugachev
Count Cavour
conscription
'Turnip' Townsend
45. Founded the Salvation Army
Absolutism
William and Catherine Booth
Thermidor
Charles Montesquieu
46. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Assembly of Notables
Triple Alliance
Petition of Rights
Social Democratic Party
47. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Blaise Pascal
New Economic Policy
Volksgeist
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
48. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
New Economic Policy
Napoleon
Seven Year's War
49. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Revolution from Above
John Locke
Francois Voltaire
Gottfried Leibniz
50. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Theodore Herzl
ultraroyalists
James Watt
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