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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Factory Act
Joseph Stalin
Ottoman empire dissolved
Catherine the Great
2. 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
Franz Ferdinand
French Revolution of 1848
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Jean Paul Marat
3. 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.
Reform Bill
Louis XIV
Holy Alliance
Jean Paul Marat
4. 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.'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bishop Bossuet
Johannes Kepler
Dulce et Decorum Est
5. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Ottoman empire dissolved
First and Second International
Directory
White Russians
6. 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
Rene Descartes
Quadruple Alliance
Treaty of Paris
7. 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.
Enigma
Adam Smith
Allied Powers
Adolf Eichmann
8. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Thirty Years' War
Dutch Republic
Benjamin Disraeli
Franz Ferdinand
9. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Treaty of Tilsit
Enigma
Giueseppe Garibaldi
10. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Fabian Society
Volksgeist
Treaty of Paris
11. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Home Rule
Emmeline Prankhurst
Edict of Nantes
Battle of the Bulge
12. 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.
soviets
Volksgeist
Austro-Piedmontese War
Georges Jacques Danton
13. 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.
Charles X
Concert of Europe
Franco-Prussian War
Congress of Vienna
14. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Blaise Pascal
Vesalius
Bishop Bossuet
William Gladstone
15. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Cecil Rhodes.
Treaty of Tilsit
16. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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17. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Treaty of Tilsit
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Easter Rising
Vichy Regime
18. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Soviet-Afghan War
Revisionists
Easter Rising
Berlin Conference
19. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Allied Powers
Panther
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
20. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
fire at the Reichstag
Social Democratic Party
Legislative Assembly
Girondins
21. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Labour Party
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Count Cavour
Legislative Assembly
22. 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.
Vichy Regime
John Locke
Concert of Europe
Nikita Khrushchev
23. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
ultraroyalists
Kronstadt
Spanish-American War
Triple Entente
24. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
Continental System
Final Solution
Jacobins
25. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Leipzig
Ferdinand VII
Galileo Galilei
Dulce et Decorum Est
26. 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.
Free French
Frederick the Great
Treaty of Frankfurt
ancien regime
27. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Giuseppe Mazzini
Korean War
Thermidorian Reaction
28. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Heinrich Himmler
Thirty Years' War
English Civil War
Atlantic Charter
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.
Marie Curie
Congress of Vienna
The Glorious Revolution
Axis Powers
30. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Central Powers.
Johannes Kepler
Easter Rising
Sergei Witte
31. 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.
Vesalius
British East India Company
Mary Wollstonecraft
War of Austrian Succession
32. 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.
Panther
Dual Monarchy
Kronstadt
Copernicus
33. 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
Vladimir Lenin
Dutch Republic
Joseph Stalin
Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Important ZIONIST.
Spanish-American War
Axis Powers
Gottfried Leibniz
Theodore Herzl
35. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Lateran Pact
Joseph Stalin
James Watt
36. 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.
Continental System
Girondins
Assembly of Notables
Robert Koch
37. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Petition of Rights
Declaration of Pillnitz
Catherine the Great
Reform Bill
38. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Vladimir Lenin
Cecil Rhodes.
Jean Paul Marat
Lenin and Trotsky
39. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Congress of Vienna
Spanish Civil War
Triple Entente
Giueseppe Garibaldi
40. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Russian Revolution
John Rockefeller
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Eastern Question
41. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Marie Curie
Joseph II
vanguard
Korean War
42. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Home Rule
English Civil War
Enigma
Warsaw Pact
43. 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.
Giuseppe Mazzini
fire at the Reichstag
Crimean War
Marie Curie
44. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Enigma
Directory
Utilitarianism
45. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Stalingrad
Johannes Kepler
Daimler and Benz
Mary Wollstonecraft
46. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
William Gladstone
Johannes Kepler
Central Powers.
Leipzig
47. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ptolemy
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
John Locke
Kulaks
48. 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.
Ptolemy
Adolf Eichmann
Treaty of London
Ferdinand VII
49. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Congress of Vienna
New Economic Policy
Chartist Movement
Tories
50. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Labour Party
Edmund Burke
Kaiser Wilhelm I