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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Red Russians
Edinburgh
Volksgeist
Nikita Khrushchev
2. 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.
Napoleon
Bradenburg-Prussia
conscription
Home Rule
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.
Congress of Vienna
Panther
Holy Alliance
Edict of Nantes
4. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Home Rule
Korean War
Ferdinand VII
5. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Petition of Rights
Revisionists
Adam Smith
6. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Treaty of Tilsit
Absolutism
Thirty Years' War
Austro-Piedmontese War
7. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Georges Jacques Danton
Louis XIV
8. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Edmund Burke
Vesalius
Black Shirt March
English Civil War
9. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Enigma
Franco-Prussian War
Charles Albert
10. 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.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Adolf Eichmann
Emelyn Pugachev
11. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Frederick the Great
Edmund Burke
Herbert Spencer
12. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Emmanuel Sieyes
John Stuart Mill
13. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
John Stuart Mill
Charles Albert
Absolutism
Whigs
14. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Jean Paul Marat
Emmeline Prankhurst
Emmanuel Sieyes
Marshall plan
15. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Fabian Society
Mary Wollstonecraft
ancien regime
New Economic Policy
16. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Paracelsus
Dual Monarchy
17. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Heinrich Himmler
Mary Wollstonecraft
Bishop Bossuet
Catherine the Great
18. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Russo-Japanese War
Girondins
Fascist Party
John Stuart Mill
19. 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.
Russian Revolution
Atlantic Charter
Adam Smith
North German Confederation
20. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Dual Monarchy
Louis XIV
Transcendentalists
Declaration of Pillnitz
21. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Third International
Axis Powers
Catherine the Great
Stalingrad
22. 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.
Eastern Question
Enigma
Marie Curie
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
23. 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
Potsdam
Spanish-American War
John Locke
Louis Philippe I
24. (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
War of Austrian Succession
William and Catherine Booth
Treaty of London
Copernicus
25. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Triple Alliance
Bishop Bossuet
Factory Act
26. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Steel
Robert Koch
Triple Alliance
Sir Francis Bacon
27. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Russian Revolution
Charles X
Labour Party
28. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Potsdam
Jean Paul Marat
Dulce et Decorum Est
Social Democratic Party
29. A military draft
conscription
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dutch Republic
Edmund Burke
30. 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
Georges Jacques Danton
Potsdam
French Revolution of 1848
New Economic Policy
31. 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
Battle of the Somme
conscription
John Stuart Mill
32. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Battle of the Bulge
ultraroyalists
vanguard
Korean War
33. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Thermidorian Reaction
Sergei Witte
Francois Voltaire
34. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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35. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Vesalius
Lusitania
Edmund Burke
Oliver Cromwell
36. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Brezhnev Doctrine
Black Shirt March
John Stuart Mill
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
John Stuart Mill
John F. Kennedy
Jean Paul Marat
Dutch Republic
38. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Heinrich Himmler
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
39. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Russo-Japanese War
Lusitania
Crimean War
Adolf Eichmann
40. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Triple Alliance
Absolutism
Berlin Conference
Vesalius
41. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Francois Voltaire
Emmanuel Sieyes
Concert of Europe
42. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Andrew Carnegie
Count Cavour
Free French
Quadruple Alliance
43. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Denis Diderot
Vichy Regime
Marshall plan
44. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
First and Second International
Eastern Question
Triple Alliance
Seven Weeks' War
45. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Sir Francis Bacon
Lusitania
Napoleon
Gottfried Leibniz
46. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Oliver Cromwell
Black Shirt March
Treaty of Tilsit
Austro-Piedmontese War
47. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Fabian Society
Tories
Louis XIV
Black Shirt March
48. 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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49. 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.
Robert Koch
Dulce et Decorum Est
Warsaw Pact
Crimean War
50. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
conscription
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Atlantic Charter