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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Legislative Assembly
Fabian Society
Jean Paul Marat
Charles Albert
2. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Brezhnev Doctrine
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Franco-Prussian War
3. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Girondins
Jacobins
Emmeline Prankhurst
Rene Descartes
4. 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
Count Cavour
ultraroyalists
New Economic Policy
5. 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
Francois Voltaire
Frederick the Great
Kulaks
First and Second International
6. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Treaty of Frankfurt
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Axis Powers
Marie Curie
7. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Edict of Nantes
Treaty of Tilsit
James Watt
8. 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.
Revolution from Above
Oliver Cromwell
Joseph II
Gottfried Leibniz
9. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
conscription
Bradenburg-Prussia
Black Shirt March
10. 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.
Vladimir Lenin
Panther
Edinburgh
Gottfried Leibniz
11. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Whigs
Dutch Republic
William Gladstone
Boer War
12. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
Soviet-Afghan War
British East India Company
Andrew Carnegie
13. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Count Cavour
The Glorious Revolution
Emelyn Pugachev
14. 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
Factory Act
Enigma
Giuseppe Mazzini
15. 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.
Holy Alliance
Ptolemy
Treaty of London
Galileo Galilei
16. 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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17. 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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Catherine the Great
Petition of Rights
Congress of Vienna
18. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Easter Rising
Vladimir Lenin
19. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Franz Ferdinand
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Ottoman empire dissolved
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
20. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
The War of Jenkin's Ear
First and Second International
Boer War
21. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Soviet-Afghan War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Committee of Public Safety
Franz Ferdinand
22. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Enclosure movement
Allies
Treaty of London
Steel
23. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Seven Year's War
War of Austrian Succession
Holy Alliance
Triple Entente
24. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
New Economic Policy
fire at the Reichstag
Central Powers.
Holy Alliance
25. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Concert of Europe
Adam Smith
John F. Kennedy
The Glorious Revolution
26. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
John Locke
Daimler and Benz
Ottoman empire dissolved
Kulaks
27. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Spanish-American War
Legislative Assembly
White Russians
vanguard
28. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Absolutism
English Civil War
Red Russians
Ptolemy
29. 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.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Emmeline Prankhurst
Oliver Cromwell
Transcendentalists
30. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Ptolemy
Giuseppe Mazzini
Berlin Conference
Lusitania
31. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Holy Alliance
Adolf Eichmann
Copernicus
32. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Secularization
Seven Weeks' War
Ptolemy
Spanish Civil War
33. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Lenin and Trotsky
Russo-Japanese War
Giuseppe Mazzini
34. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Seven Year's War
French Revolution of 1848
Lenin and Trotsky
35. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Transcendentalists
Revisionists
James Watt
36. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Enclosure movement
Dulce et Decorum Est
Final Solution
vanguard
37. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Edict of Nantes
ancien regime
Treaty of London
Ferdinand VII
38. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Enigma
Dual Monarchy
Marie Curie
John Rockefeller
39. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Russo-Japanese War
Cecil Rhodes.
Louis XIV
Kronstadt
40. Soviet counterpart to NATO
First and Second International
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Warsaw Pact
Ferdinand VII
41. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Steel
Giuseppe Mazzini
Boer War
42. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Greek Revolution
Herbert Spencer
Chartist Movement
43. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Charles Montesquieu
Fascist Party
Eastern Question
44. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Jean Paul Marat
Catherine the Great
Battle of the Bulge
45. 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.
Marshall plan
Congress of Vienna
Napoleon
Charles Montesquieu
46. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Count Cavour
Leipzig
Vichy Regime
Brezhnev Doctrine
47. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Benito Mussolini
Girondins
John F. Kennedy
conscription
48. 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
Quadruple Alliance
Russo-Japanese War
Copernicus
Soviet-Afghan War
49. Extermination of the Jews.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Final Solution
Seven Year's War
Gottfried Leibniz
50. 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
Theodore Herzl
Lateran Pact
Thermidor
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