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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Treaty of Paris
Utilitarianism
Austria-Hungary
John Locke
2. 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
Johannes Kepler
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Soviet-Afghan War
Louis XIV
3. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Panther
Fabian Society
Joseph II
Public Health Act
4. 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.
Kronstadt
Giuseppe Mazzini
Bradenburg-Prussia
Francois Voltaire
5. A Jewish British prime minister.
Napoleon
Marie Curie
Benjamin Disraeli
Gottfried Leibniz
6. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Adolf Eichmann
Gottfried Leibniz
7. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Potsdam
English Civil War
Social Democratic Party
Jacobins
8. 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.
Brezhnev Doctrine
North German Confederation
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Enclosure movement
9. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
French Revolution of 1848
Lusitania
Catherine the Great
Peter the Great
10. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Gottfried Leibniz
Giuseppe Mazzini
Count Cavour
Treaty of Frankfurt
11. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Lenin and Trotsky
John F. Kennedy
Sergei Witte
Revolution from Above
12. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Emelyn Pugachev
Kronstadt
Fabian Society
Sergei Witte
13. 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
Charles X
Georges Jacques Danton
Joseph Stalin
Vesalius
14. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Korean War
Charles X
fire at the Reichstag
15. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Edward Gibbon
Easter Rising
Boer War
Brezhnev Doctrine
16. 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.
Transcendentalists
British East India Company
Seven Year's War
Factory Act
17. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Herbert Spencer
Spanish Civil War
Public Health Act
Warsaw Pact
18. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
William Gladstone
Thermidor
Adolf Eichmann
Thermidorian Reaction
19. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Thirty Years' War
Emmeline Prankhurst
New Economic Policy
Quadruple Alliance
20. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Edward Gibbon
Paracelsus
Tories
Warsaw Pact
21. 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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22. Britain and America
Red Russians
Allied Powers
Declaration of Pillnitz
Jacobins
23. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Triple Alliance
Committee of Public Safety
Cecil Rhodes.
Dulce et Decorum Est
24. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Frederick the Great
Kulaks
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Atlantic Charter
25. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Triple Alliance
Ptolemy
Kaiser Wilhelm I
White Russians
26. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sir Francis Bacon
Warsaw Pact
Andrew Carnegie
27. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Triple Entente
Giuseppe Mazzini
fire at the Reichstag
Reform Bill
28. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Whigs
Spanish Civil War
Johannes Kepler
Ferdinand VII
29. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Theodore Herzl
Factory Act
Eastern Question
Robert Koch
30. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Revisionists
Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles Montesquieu
31. 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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32. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
ultraroyalists
Labour Party
Marshall plan
Seven Weeks' War
33. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
First and Second International
Utilitarianism
Public Health Act
34. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
John F. Kennedy
Herbert Spencer
ultraroyalists
Revisionists
35. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
North German Confederation
Austro-Piedmontese War
Boer War
Allies
36. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Georges Jacques Danton
Treaty of Tilsit
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Blaise Pascal
37. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Fabian Society
Battle of the Somme
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Bishop Bossuet
38. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Potsdam
Vladimir Lenin
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
39. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Enclosure movement
Jean Paul Marat
John Stuart Mill
Leipzig
40. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Eastern Question
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Central Powers.
41. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
John Locke
Panther
Sergei Witte
Gottfried Leibniz
42. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Johannes Kepler
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Continental System
Zimmerman telegram
43. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Isaac Newton
X-Ray
Sir Francis Bacon
44. 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.
Easter Rising
Adam Smith
Marie Curie
Whigs
45. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Axis Powers
Charles X
Nazi
Committee of Public Safety
46. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Isaac Newton
William and Catherine Booth
Reform Bill
Robert Koch
47. 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
New Economic Policy
Bishop Bossuet
Petition of Rights
48. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Galileo Galilei
Axis Powers
Battle of the Somme
Edward Gibbon
49. A military draft
Louis XIV
Berlin Conference
conscription
Johannes Kepler
50. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Thermidorian Reaction
Vichy Regime
Revisionists
William Gladstone