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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
Crimean War
Benjamin Disraeli
vanguard
2. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Emelyn Pugachev
Oliver Cromwell
Lateran Pact
3. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Frederick the Great
Revolution from Above
Jean Paul Marat
4. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Holy Alliance
Thirty Years' War
Leipzig
Atlantic Charter
5. 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
Peter the Great
Absolutism
Marshall plan
6. 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.
Directory
Austro-Piedmontese War
Final Solution
Petition of Rights
7. 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
Charles Albert
Black Shirt March
Francois Voltaire
John Stuart Mill
8. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Edinburgh
North German Confederation
English Civil War
Triple Alliance
9. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
Greek Revolution
10. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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11. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Zimmerman telegram
Ptolemy
ancien regime
Johannes Kepler
12. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Charles Albert
William Gladstone
Emmeline Prankhurst
'Turnip' Townsend
13. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Jean Paul Marat
Declaration of Pillnitz
Treaty of Frankfurt
Adolf Eichmann
14. 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.
Allied Powers
Absolutism
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Final Solution
15. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Edict of Nantes
Zimmerman telegram
Fabian Society
16. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Reform Bill
Herbert Spencer
Emmeline Prankhurst
Allied Powers
17. 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.
Steel
Third International
First and Second International
Louis Philippe I
18. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Allies
Lusitania
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Marshall plan
19. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Vichy Regime
Jacobins
Rene Descartes
English Civil War
20. 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
Revolution from Above
Committee of Public Safety
'Turnip' Townsend
Spanish Civil War
21. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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22. 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.
ancien regime
fire at the Reichstag
British East India Company
Tories
23. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Russo-Japanese War
Whigs
Joseph Stalin
Copernicus
24. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Count Cavour
Dulce et Decorum Est
Jacobins
fire at the Reichstag
25. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Transcendentalists
Public Health Act
Nazi
Edmund Burke
26. A military draft
Catherine the Great
conscription
Congress of Vienna
Adam Smith
27. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Transcendentalists
Emelyn Pugachev
Assembly of Notables
Lenin and Trotsky
28. 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
Bishop Bossuet
John Locke
Crimean War
Isaac Newton
29. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Lateran Pact
Emmanuel Sieyes
Reform Bill
Easter Rising
30. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Vladimir Lenin
Secularization
New Economic Policy
Easter Rising
31. 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.
Transcendentalists
Battle of the Bulge
Stalingrad
Allied Powers
32. 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
Leipzig
Copernicus
Home Rule
Treaty of Tilsit
33. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Charles X
Jean Paul Marat
Red Russians
34. 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
ultraroyalists
Korean War
Emmeline Prankhurst
35. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Greek Revolution
Black Shirt March
William and Catherine Booth
36. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Marshall plan
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Somme
37. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Spanish-American War
Louis Philippe I
Sir Francis Bacon
conscription
38. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Sir Francis Bacon
Sergei Witte
Lateran Pact
39. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Reform Bill
Axis Powers
Emelyn Pugachev
40. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Thermidor
Nikita Khrushchev
41. 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
Daimler and Benz
Russian Revolution
ultraroyalists
The Glorious Revolution
42. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
North German Confederation
Peter the Great
Paris Commune
43. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
William Gladstone
Congress of Vienna
Fabian Society
Austro-Piedmontese War
44. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Nikita Khrushchev
Triple Entente
English Civil War
Giuseppe Mazzini
45. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Bradenburg-Prussia
Lateran Pact
Enclosure movement
46. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Labour Party
Isaac Newton
Louis XIV
47. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Quadruple Alliance
Ferdinand VII
Atlantic Charter
Committee of Public Safety
48. 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.
Denis Diderot
ancien regime
Russo-Japanese War
North German Confederation
49. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Nazi
Concert of Europe
Austro-Piedmontese War
Declaration of Pillnitz
50. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Battle of the Bulge
Korean War
Battle of Adowa
Ptolemy
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