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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Russian Revolution
Gottfried Leibniz
Factory Act
Axis Powers
2. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Dutch Republic
Sergei Witte
Revisionists
Georges Jacques Danton
3. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Bishop Bossuet
Panther
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
4. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Whigs
Absolutism
Volksgeist
Warsaw Pact
5. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Legislative Assembly
Vesalius
X-Ray
6. 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.
British East India Company
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Bradenburg-Prussia
Sergei Witte
7. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Secularization
Benito Mussolini
Treaty of Frankfurt
8. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Transcendentalists
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Heinrich Himmler
Assembly of Notables
9. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Battle of the Bulge
Fabian Society
Axis Powers
Enclosure movement
10. 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).
Eastern Question
Central Powers.
Georges Jacques Danton
Vichy Regime
11. 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
English Civil War
Gottfried Leibniz
Heinrich Himmler
ultraroyalists
12. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Triple Entente
Dutch Republic
Ferdinand VII
13. 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.
Joseph II
William Gladstone
Black Shirt March
Warsaw Pact
14. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Edinburgh
Boer War
Triple Alliance
15. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Enclosure movement
ancien regime
Factory Act
Gottfried Leibniz
16. 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.'
Bishop Bossuet
Dual Monarchy
Mary Wollstonecraft
Free French
17. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Galileo Galilei
Lenin and Trotsky
Lusitania
'Turnip' Townsend
18. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
Denis Diderot
Giuseppe Mazzini
Charles Albert
19. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
conscription
Seven Weeks' War
Franz Ferdinand
vanguard
20. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
John Locke
Louis Philippe I
Red Russians
English Civil War
21. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Paracelsus
Easter Rising
Isaac Newton
John Locke
22. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
William Gladstone
Assembly of Notables
Atlantic Charter
23. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Robert Koch
French Revolution of 1848
Paracelsus
Gottfried Leibniz
24. 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.
White Russians
Charles X
Transcendentalists
Korean War
25. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Kronstadt
X-Ray
Enclosure movement
Mary Wollstonecraft
26. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Spanish-American War
Whigs
conscription
John F. Kennedy
27. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Revolution from Above
vanguard
Third International
Free French
28. 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.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Directory
William Gladstone
Battle of Adowa
29. 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
Seven Year's War
Seven Weeks' War
Dutch Republic
Edict of Nantes
30. 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.
Red Russians
Cecil Rhodes.
Heinrich Himmler
Lusitania
31. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Dutch Republic
Spanish-American War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Revisionists
32. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Charles Montesquieu
conscription
Giuseppe Mazzini
Soviet-Afghan War
33. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Georges Jacques Danton
Greek Revolution
Napoleon
Lusitania
34. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Concert of Europe
Edmund Burke
The Glorious Revolution
Robert Koch
35. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Panther
Revolution from Above
36. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Copernicus
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Factory Act
Rene Descartes
37. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Russo-Japanese War
Napoleon
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Bradenburg-Prussia
38. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Jacobins
Boer War
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Malthus
39. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Herbert Spencer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Crimean War
Franco-Prussian War
40. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Catherine the Great
Emelyn Pugachev
Congress of Vienna
41. 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.
Marshall plan
Lateran Pact
Paris Commune
Volksgeist
42. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Charles X
Austro-Piedmontese War
Reform Bill
Dulce et Decorum Est
43. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Mary Wollstonecraft
First and Second International
Berlin Conference
Allies
44. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Benjamin Disraeli
Congress of Vienna
Theodore Herzl
45. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Copernicus
Concert of Europe
Peter the Great
Louis Philippe I
46. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Easter Rising
Concert of Europe
Warsaw Pact
Fabian Society
47. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Peter the Great
Revisionists
Sergei Witte
48. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Thirty Years' War
Edict of Nantes
Warsaw Pact
Thermidorian Reaction
49. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Social Democratic Party
North German Confederation
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Eastern Question
50. Important ZIONIST.
Zimmerman telegram
Charles Albert
Theodore Herzl
Copernicus