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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Franz Ferdinand
Daimler and Benz
Declaration of Pillnitz
Napoleon
2. 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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3. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Rene Descartes
Emmanuel Sieyes
Fascist Party
Zimmerman telegram
4. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Leipzig
Treaty of Paris
Dual Monarchy
Revisionists
5. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Steel
Bishop Bossuet
Russo-Japanese War
Enigma
6. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Joseph II
Paris Commune
Declaration of Pillnitz
7. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Allies
Revisionists
Triple Alliance
Ferdinand VII
8. 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
Edinburgh
Nikita Khrushchev
Panther
Thermidorian Reaction
9. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
First and Second International
Sergei Witte
French Revolution of 1848
10. Important ZIONIST.
Berlin Conference
Petition of Rights
Theodore Herzl
William Gladstone
11. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Secularization
ancien regime
Girondins
Holy Alliance
12. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Panther
Marshall plan
Berlin Conference
13. 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.
Frederick the Great
Absolutism
Directory
Public Health Act
14. 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.
Reform Bill
Treaty of Paris
Black Shirt March
Bishop Bossuet
15. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Factory Act
Steel
Johannes Kepler
'Turnip' Townsend
16. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Gottfried Leibniz
Thermidor
Russian Revolution
17. Britain and America
Battle of the Somme
Allied Powers
John Stuart Mill
Revolution from Above
18. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Charles X
Spanish-American War
Franz Ferdinand
Edict of Nantes
19. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Johannes Kepler
Peter the Great
Andrew Carnegie
Cecil Rhodes.
20. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Thirty Years' War
Paracelsus
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Declaration of Pillnitz
21. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Isaac Newton
Tories
Gottfried Leibniz
Triple Alliance
22. 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.
Fascist Party
Kaiser Wilhelm I
conscription
Boer War
23. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Frederick the Great
Revisionists
Nikita Khrushchev
24. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Berlin Conference
Greek Revolution
Public Health Act
25. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Louis XIV
Emmeline Prankhurst
Greek Revolution
English Civil War
26. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
vanguard
John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer
27. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Atlantic Charter
Social Democratic Party
Denis Diderot
Transcendentalists
28. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Paracelsus
Utilitarianism
Sergei Witte
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
29. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Enclosure movement
Copernicus
Triple Alliance
30. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Revolution from Above
Kulaks
North German Confederation
31. 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.'
Battle of Adowa
Axis Powers
Bishop Bossuet
Transcendentalists
32. 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.
Catherine the Great
William and Catherine Booth
ancien regime
fire at the Reichstag
33. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Russian Revolution
Edict of Nantes
Napoleon
Committee of Public Safety
34. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Robert Koch
Count Cavour
Leipzig
Eastern Question
35. 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.
Nazi
Bradenburg-Prussia
conscription
Petition of Rights
36. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Potsdam
English Civil War
Panther
Frederick the Great
37. Germany - Italy - and Japan
conscription
Nazi
Galileo Galilei
Axis Powers
38. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Thermidorian Reaction
Seven Year's War
Holy Alliance
39. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Central Powers.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Catherine the Great
40. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Count Cavour
Lenin and Trotsky
Russian Revolution
41. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Easter Rising
The Glorious Revolution
John Stuart Mill
Austro-Hungarian Empire
42. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Directory
Paracelsus
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
43. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
First and Second International
Vesalius
Bradenburg-Prussia
Chartist Movement
44. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
North German Confederation
Free French
Seven Weeks' War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
45. 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.
Crimean War
Marshall plan
vanguard
Seven Weeks' War
46. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Allied Powers
French Revolution of 1848
Berlin Conference
Thermidor
47. 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
Committee of Public Safety
Sergei Witte
Treaty of London
Spanish Civil War
48. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Leipzig
Jean Paul Marat
Benjamin Disraeli
49. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
English Civil War
Peter the Great
John Rockefeller
50. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Axis Powers
Treaty of London
Whigs
Leipzig