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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Sir Francis Bacon
Russian Revolution
Kulaks
2. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Charles Montesquieu
Count Cavour
Battle of the Bulge
Charles X
3. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Volksgeist
Absolutism
Greek Revolution
Austria-Hungary
4. Important ZIONIST.
Labour Party
conscription
Lenin and Trotsky
Theodore Herzl
5. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Frederick the Great
Johannes Kepler
Daimler and Benz
Emmanuel Sieyes
6. 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.
Thirty Years' War
French Revolution of 1848
Louis XIV
Joseph II
7. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
John F. Kennedy
Absolutism
Battle of the Bulge
Franz Ferdinand
8. A Jewish British prime minister.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Benjamin Disraeli
Paris Commune
Transcendentalists
9. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Thermidorian Reaction
Treaty of Frankfurt
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kulaks
10. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Sergei Witte
Transcendentalists
James Watt
11. 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.
Charles X
Home Rule
Napoleon
Bishop Bossuet
12. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Battle of the Bulge
Emmanuel Sieyes
Russo-Japanese War
13. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Thirty Years' War
North German Confederation
Herbert Spencer
Sergei Witte
14. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Jacobins
Committee of Public Safety
Whigs
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. 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.
Fascist Party
White Russians
Warsaw Pact
Revolution from Above
16. 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.
Adam Smith
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Treaty of Tilsit
Lateran Pact
17. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Treaty of London
William and Catherine Booth
Paracelsus
18. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joseph Stalin
Absolutism
Dual Monarchy
19. 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
Reform Bill
Potsdam
Declaration of Pillnitz
Spanish Civil War
20. 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
Treaty of London
Nazi
'Turnip' Townsend
21. 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
Easter Rising
Home Rule
conscription
John Locke
22. 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.
Volksgeist
British East India Company
Black Shirt March
Nikita Khrushchev
23. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
Russo-Japanese War
Leipzig
Continental System
24. Founded the Salvation Army
Bishop Bossuet
William and Catherine Booth
Volksgeist
New Economic Policy
25. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Andrew Carnegie
Heinrich Himmler
John Rockefeller
Triple Alliance
26. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Revolution from Above
Reform Bill
Andrew Carnegie
27. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Ottoman empire dissolved
Sir Francis Bacon
Central Powers.
John Stuart Mill
28. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Black Shirt March
ultraroyalists
Zimmerman telegram
29. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
ancien regime
Secularization
Franz Ferdinand
Red Russians
30. 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
Nazi
Kulaks
Jean Paul Marat
Boer War
31. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Absolutism
Copernicus
Kulaks
Emmeline Prankhurst
32. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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33. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Treaty of Tilsit
Denis Diderot
Edmund Burke
Herbert Spencer
34. 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.
conscription
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Vichy Regime
Reform Bill
35. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Daimler and Benz
Social Democratic Party
Austria-Hungary
Thirty Years' War
36. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Vesalius
Volksgeist
Home Rule
37. A military draft
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Potsdam
Final Solution
conscription
38. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Berlin Conference
Home Rule
Bradenburg-Prussia
Legislative Assembly
39. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Frankfurt
Directory
Francois Voltaire
40. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Andrew Carnegie
Social Democratic Party
Assembly of Notables
41. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Legislative Assembly
Secularization
Quadruple Alliance
42. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giuseppe Mazzini
Louis Philippe I
Triple Alliance
43. 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.
Allies
Galileo Galilei
Vladimir Lenin
Sir Francis Bacon
44. 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.
Panther
Cecil Rhodes.
Louis Philippe I
Bishop Bossuet
45. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Seven Weeks' War
ultraroyalists
First and Second International
Boer War
46. 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.
Enclosure movement
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Congress of Vienna
Free French
47. 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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48. (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
Joseph Stalin
Declaration of Pillnitz
War of Austrian Succession
Ottoman empire dissolved
49. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Jean Paul Marat
Heinrich Himmler
Social Democratic Party
soviets
50. 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
Giueseppe Garibaldi
fire at the Reichstag
Peter the Great
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