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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Boer War
Louis XIV
Central Powers.
Franz Ferdinand
2. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Concert of Europe
Emelyn Pugachev
Greek Revolution
3. 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.
Georges Jacques Danton
Louis XIV
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cecil Rhodes.
4. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Franco-Prussian War
Nikita Khrushchev
John Rockefeller
White Russians
5. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Treaty of London
Vesalius
Vichy Regime
Transcendentalists
6. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Steel
Utilitarianism
Allied Powers
Seven Year's War
7. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
vanguard
John Rockefeller
Ottoman empire dissolved
Thermidor
8. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Catherine the Great
Louis XIV
9. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Robert Koch
Kaiser Wilhelm I
vanguard
Emmanuel Sieyes
10. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Edward Gibbon
Chartist Movement
Louis XIV
Greek Revolution
11. 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.
New Economic Policy
Georges Jacques Danton
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Black Shirt March
12. Founded the Salvation Army
Vesalius
William and Catherine Booth
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
13. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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14. 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
Korean War
Oliver Cromwell
Triple Alliance
15. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Treaty of London
Peter the Great
French Revolution of 1848
Edict of Nantes
16. 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
Spanish Civil War
Greek Revolution
Joseph II
Benito Mussolini
17. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Jean Paul Marat
Lenin and Trotsky
Spanish-American War
Adolf Eichmann
18. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Sir Francis Bacon
Continental System
19. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
John F. Kennedy
Steel
Social Democratic Party
English Civil War
20. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Emelyn Pugachev
Social Democratic Party
John Rockefeller
Ottoman empire dissolved
21. 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.
Third International
Daimler and Benz
Charles Montesquieu
Vichy Regime
22. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
British East India Company
Paris Commune
Dulce et Decorum Est
Francois Voltaire
23. A Jewish British prime minister.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Kulaks
Benjamin Disraeli
24. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Fascist Party
Triple Entente
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Dual Monarchy
25. 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.
Korean War
John F. Kennedy
Joseph II
Assembly of Notables
26. 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.
Utilitarianism
Dulce et Decorum Est
conscription
Oliver Cromwell
27. 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.
New Economic Policy
Petition of Rights
Robert Koch
Triple Entente
28. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Crimean War
Edward Gibbon
Black Shirt March
Napoleon
29. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Treaty of Frankfurt
Charles X
Giueseppe Garibaldi
30. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Central Powers.
William and Catherine Booth
Heinrich Himmler
Franz Ferdinand
31. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Assembly of Notables
Enigma
soviets
Russo-Japanese War
32. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Committee of Public Safety
Gottfried Leibniz
Allies
Nikita Khrushchev
33. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Congress of Vienna
Dulce et Decorum Est
Assembly of Notables
Georges Jacques Danton
34. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Copernicus
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Triple Entente
Edmund Burke
35. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Treaty of Tilsit
Francois Voltaire
Girondins
36. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
John Stuart Mill
War of Austrian Succession
Edict of Nantes
ultraroyalists
37. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Treaty of London
Edmund Burke
North German Confederation
John Rockefeller
38. 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
Copernicus
Sergei Witte
Atlantic Charter
Edinburgh
39. Discovered radium.
English Civil War
Battle of Adowa
Greek Revolution
Marie Curie
40. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Benjamin Disraeli
John Rockefeller
Korean War
Enigma
41. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Cecil Rhodes.
Herbert Spencer
Transcendentalists
Mary Wollstonecraft
42. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Axis Powers
Dutch Republic
Emmeline Prankhurst
Robert Koch
43. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Factory Act
Directory
Catherine the Great
44. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Easter Rising
John F. Kennedy
Dual Monarchy
Steel
45. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Cecil Rhodes.
Battle of the Bulge
Dual Monarchy
New Economic Policy
46. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Enclosure movement
Russian Revolution
Volksgeist
Count Cavour
47. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Austro-Hungarian Empire
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Bradenburg-Prussia
48. 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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49. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Dual Monarchy
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Paris
Robert Koch
50. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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