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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A Jewish British prime minister.
Whigs
Brezhnev Doctrine
Heinrich Himmler
Benjamin Disraeli
2. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of London
Crimean War
Spanish Civil War
3. 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
Marie Curie
Whigs
Joseph Stalin
Dutch Republic
4. 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.
North German Confederation
Zimmerman telegram
Battle of Adowa
Edinburgh
5. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Isaac Newton
Peter the Great
Fascist Party
6. Extermination of the Jews.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Final Solution
Public Health Act
7. 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.
Lateran Pact
Isaac Newton
John Rockefeller
Copernicus
8. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Home Rule
Treaty of Frankfurt
Petition of Rights
John Stuart Mill
9. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Factory Act
John Rockefeller
Stalingrad
Petition of Rights
10. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Charles X
Marshall plan
Crimean War
Soviet-Afghan War
11. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
James Watt
Russian Revolution
Chartist Movement
First and Second International
12. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Spanish-American War
Korean War
Peter the Great
Ottoman empire dissolved
13. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
John Locke
Lusitania
Fascist Party
14. 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
John Stuart Mill
Battle of Adowa
First and Second International
15. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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16. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Napoleon
Thirty Years' War
Vesalius
17. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Treaty of Paris
British East India Company
Treaty of Tilsit
Emmeline Prankhurst
18. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Greek Revolution
Bishop Bossuet
British East India Company
19. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Holy Alliance
Soviet-Afghan War
Lateran Pact
Fabian Society
20. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Free French
Treaty of London
Whigs
21. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Atlantic Charter
Jacobins
Fascist Party
22. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Spanish Civil War
Enclosure movement
Battle of the Somme
Thermidor
23. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Factory Act
White Russians
Absolutism
24. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
John F. Kennedy
Louis Philippe I
Paris Commune
Count Cavour
25. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Social Democratic Party
Volksgeist
Assembly of Notables
26. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Triple Entente
Allies
Battle of Adowa
27. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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28. 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.
Benito Mussolini
Greek Revolution
Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
29. 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.
Girondins
Revolution from Above
White Russians
Charles Montesquieu
30. 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
Russo-Japanese War
Isaac Newton
Declaration of Pillnitz
Dulce et Decorum Est
31. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kronstadt
Joseph II
Kulaks
English Civil War
32. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Marie Curie
Public Health Act
Russian Revolution
33. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
North German Confederation
Third International
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
conscription
34. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Volksgeist
Kronstadt
Nazi
35. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Nikita Khrushchev
Korean War
Thermidor
36. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
ancien regime
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Greek Revolution
Continental System
37. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Revisionists
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thermidor
James Watt
38. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Continental System
Lusitania
Austro-Hungarian Empire
New Economic Policy
39. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Continental System
Franz Ferdinand
Thomas Malthus
John F. Kennedy
40. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Treaty of Tilsit
Paracelsus
Louis Philippe I
Sir Francis Bacon
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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Kulaks
Edmund Burke
Adolf Eichmann
42. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Potsdam
Central Powers.
Thermidor
Thirty Years' War
43. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Adam Smith
Louis Philippe I
Edmund Burke
Blaise Pascal
44. 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
Ferdinand VII
Enclosure movement
Spanish Civil War
Easter Rising
45. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Joseph II
French Revolution of 1848
British East India Company
46. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Catherine the Great
Joseph Stalin
Andrew Carnegie
Marie Curie
47. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Marie Curie
Napoleon
Dulce et Decorum Est
Adam Smith
48. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Peter the Great
Paracelsus
Berlin Conference
Friedrich Nietzsche
49. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Ferdinand VII
Benjamin Disraeli
Blaise Pascal
Louis Philippe I
50. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Congress of Vienna
Catherine the Great
Thermidor