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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Johannes Kepler
Brezhnev Doctrine
Louis XIV
Louis Philippe I
2. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Enigma
Dual Monarchy
New Economic Policy
Franz Ferdinand
3. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Ptolemy
Atlantic Charter
Charles Montesquieu
4. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Franz Ferdinand
Benito Mussolini
Heinrich Himmler
Home Rule
5. A military draft
Andrew Carnegie
Blaise Pascal
conscription
Frederick the Great
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.
Ptolemy
Bradenburg-Prussia
Adolf Eichmann
Blaise Pascal
7. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Stalingrad
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Kaiser Wilhelm I
8. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Petition of Rights
Peter the Great
Public Health Act
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Sergei Witte
Revisionists
Denis Diderot
10. 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
Third International
Panther
John Locke
11. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Assembly of Notables
Public Health Act
Home Rule
Kaiser Wilhelm I
12. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ottoman empire dissolved
Gottfried Leibniz
William and Catherine Booth
13. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Isaac Newton
Oliver Cromwell
Whigs
Home Rule
14. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Count Cavour
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The Glorious Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. 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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16. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Sergei Witte
Galileo Galilei
Treaty of Paris
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
17. 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.
Berlin Conference
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
John F. Kennedy
soviets
18. 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.'
Charles X
Bishop Bossuet
Charles Albert
Absolutism
19. 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.
Thermidor
Kulaks
Edict of Nantes
Adolf Eichmann
20. A Jewish British prime minister.
Leipzig
Benjamin Disraeli
Austria-Hungary
Emelyn Pugachev
21. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
soviets
Austria-Hungary
Labour Party
Joseph II
22. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Count Cavour
Ferdinand VII
Emelyn Pugachev
Red Russians
23. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Edmund Burke
John Locke
Daimler and Benz
Nazi
24. Discovered radium.
Benjamin Disraeli
Marie Curie
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Joseph Stalin
25. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Johannes Kepler
Oliver Cromwell
Benito Mussolini
26. 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.
Black Shirt March
Emelyn Pugachev
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Secularization
27. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Peter the Great
John F. Kennedy
Volksgeist
Enigma
28. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Boer War
Austria-Hungary
29. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Francois Voltaire
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Eastern Question
Fabian Society
30. 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).
Edmund Burke
Georges Jacques Danton
Berlin Conference
Treaty of Frankfurt
31. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Transcendentalists
Committee of Public Safety
Oliver Cromwell
32. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Louis Philippe I
Eastern Question
Nazi
Petition of Rights
33. 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.
War of Austrian Succession
Boer War
Oliver Cromwell
Kaiser Wilhelm I
34. Germany - Italy - and Japan
William Gladstone
Axis Powers
War of Austrian Succession
Francois Voltaire
35. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Axis Powers
Battle of Adowa
Denis Diderot
36. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Allied Powers
Soviet-Afghan War
Edward Gibbon
Lusitania
37. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Legislative Assembly
Atlantic Charter
Absolutism
Berlin Conference
38. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
French Revolution of 1848
ultraroyalists
Seven Weeks' War
The Glorious Revolution
39. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Kulaks
Triple Alliance
Peter the Great
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
40. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Fascist Party
Thermidorian Reaction
Steel
41. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Final Solution
French Revolution of 1848
James Watt
Seven Year's War
42. 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.
Vesalius
Sir Francis Bacon
Crimean War
Treaty of London
43. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Herbert Spencer
Bishop Bossuet
Franco-Prussian War
44. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Red Russians
Charles Albert
Absolutism
Jean Paul Marat
45. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Central Powers.
Korean War
Stalingrad
John F. Kennedy
46. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Georges Jacques Danton
Chartist Movement
Dulce et Decorum Est
Copernicus
47. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
War of Austrian Succession
Lenin and Trotsky
Revolution from Above
Congress of Vienna
48. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Continental System
Thomas Malthus
Spanish Civil War
Final Solution
49. 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.
ancien regime
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Assembly of Notables
Spanish Civil War
50. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Francois Voltaire
Legislative Assembly
Holy Alliance
John Stuart Mill