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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A Jewish British prime minister.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Battle of Adowa
Black Shirt March
Benjamin Disraeli
2. 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.
William and Catherine Booth
Treaty of Frankfurt
Charles X
Triple Entente
3. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Warsaw Pact
Kulaks
Vichy Regime
Black Shirt March
4. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Steel
Triple Alliance
Gottfried Leibniz
Charles Albert
5. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Treaty of London
Dual Monarchy
John Locke
Legislative Assembly
6. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Louis XIV
Dual Monarchy
White Russians
7. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Sir Francis Bacon
Edict of Nantes
'Turnip' Townsend
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.
North German Confederation
Crimean War
Cecil Rhodes.
Oliver Cromwell
9. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Benjamin Disraeli
Triple Alliance
Secularization
Home Rule
10. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
North German Confederation
Ferdinand VII
ancien regime
Central Powers.
11. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
X-Ray
Mary Wollstonecraft
Free French
12. 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
Zimmerman telegram
English Civil War
Secularization
ultraroyalists
13. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Francois Voltaire
Catherine the Great
Napoleon
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
14. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
vanguard
Austria-Hungary
Lusitania
Paracelsus
15. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Girondins
Stalingrad
Johannes Kepler
Vladimir Lenin
16. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Triple Entente
Kulaks
ancien regime
Leipzig
17. 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.
Crimean War
Panther
Austro-Piedmontese War
Factory Act
18. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Third International
Count Cavour
Treaty of Tilsit
British East India Company
19. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Lenin and Trotsky
Thirty Years' War
Fabian Society
Giueseppe Garibaldi
20. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Sir Francis Bacon
Francois Voltaire
Declaration of Pillnitz
21. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Treaty of Tilsit
Copernicus
Boer War
Central Powers.
22. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Black Shirt March
Sir Francis Bacon
Herbert Spencer
Emmanuel Sieyes
23. 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
Stalingrad
Bradenburg-Prussia
Fabian Society
24. 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
Utilitarianism
Heinrich Himmler
Paracelsus
25. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Ottoman empire dissolved
Louis XIV
Austro-Hungarian Empire
26. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Holy Alliance
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Francois Voltaire
Friedrich Nietzsche
27. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Revolution from Above
Public Health Act
Adolf Eichmann
Triple Entente
28. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Spanish-American War
Rene Descartes
Seven Year's War
John Stuart Mill
29. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
French Revolution of 1848
Gottfried Leibniz
John Rockefeller
Congress of Vienna
30. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Third International
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Triple Alliance
31. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Rene Descartes
Paracelsus
Edmund Burke
Spanish Civil War
32. 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.
Edward Gibbon
British East India Company
Korean War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
33. 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.
Kulaks
Ferdinand VII
Battle of Adowa
Joseph II
34. 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
Thermidor
Cecil Rhodes.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
35. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Charles Albert
Ptolemy
Nazi
Robert Koch
36. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
William and Catherine Booth
Charles X
vanguard
Concert of Europe
37. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Fabian Society
Girondins
Peter the Great
Jean Paul Marat
38. 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.
Nazi
Kronstadt
Louis XIV
Cecil Rhodes.
39. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Paracelsus
X-Ray
Committee of Public Safety
Robert Koch
40. 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
Vichy Regime
Seven Year's War
Charles Albert
41. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Social Democratic Party
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Charles Montesquieu
42. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Nikita Khrushchev
Allies
Revolution from Above
Social Democratic Party
43. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Russian Revolution
Revolution from Above
Paracelsus
Greek Revolution
44. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
John Stuart Mill
Allied Powers
Easter Rising
Edmund Burke
45. Discovered radium.
Revolution from Above
Marie Curie
Joseph II
Mary Wollstonecraft
46. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Theodore Herzl
Louis XIV
Kulaks
47. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Central Powers.
Fabian Society
Berlin Conference
48. 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.
North German Confederation
Girondins
Cecil Rhodes.
Treaty of London
49. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Paracelsus
Lenin and Trotsky
Dutch Republic
Paris Commune
50. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Emelyn Pugachev
Axis Powers
The War of Jenkin's Ear