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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Tories
John F. Kennedy
Treaty of Tilsit
William and Catherine Booth
2. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Revolution from Above
Central Powers.
Kulaks
Edward Gibbon
3. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
French Revolution of 1848
vanguard
Count Cavour
Allied Powers
4. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Adam Smith
Cecil Rhodes.
Edinburgh
5. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Seven Year's War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Emmeline Prankhurst
6. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Treaty of Tilsit
Bishop Bossuet
7. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Legislative Assembly
Edmund Burke
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
8. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
British East India Company
Central Powers.
Nikita Khrushchev
Treaty of Paris
9. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Isaac Newton
White Russians
ancien regime
10. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
John F. Kennedy
Paracelsus
fire at the Reichstag
Copernicus
11. 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.
X-Ray
vanguard
Fascist Party
Benjamin Disraeli
12. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Spanish-American War
Johannes Kepler
Austro-Piedmontese War
13. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Vladimir Lenin
Ottoman empire dissolved
Spanish-American War
Assembly of Notables
14. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Greek Revolution
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Daimler and Benz
Franz Ferdinand
15. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Allied Powers
Russo-Japanese War
Robert Koch
Kronstadt
16. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
ancien regime
Korean War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
17. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Spanish Civil War
Enigma
Allies
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
18. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Blaise Pascal
Brezhnev Doctrine
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Charles Montesquieu
19. A military draft
Continental System
Louis XIV
conscription
Warsaw Pact
20. 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.'
Blaise Pascal
Joseph II
Fascist Party
Bishop Bossuet
21. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Public Health Act
Copernicus
Zimmerman telegram
Nazi
22. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Warsaw Pact
Charles X
Vesalius
Utilitarianism
23. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Labour Party
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Public Health Act
Social Democratic Party
24. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
North German Confederation
Panther
Leipzig
25. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Tories
Paris Commune
Charles X
Napoleon
26. 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
Seven Year's War
Battle of the Bulge
Kronstadt
27. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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28. Greater freedom for Ireland.
French Revolution of 1848
William Gladstone
Johannes Kepler
Home Rule
29. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Joseph II
Thomas Malthus
Allies
Catherine the Great
30. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Spanish-American War
Denis Diderot
Congress of Vienna
Eastern Question
31. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Ptolemy
Edward Gibbon
Battle of the Somme
Napoleon
32. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Rene Descartes
Absolutism
Battle of the Bulge
33. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Concert of Europe
Brezhnev Doctrine
Allies
34. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Andrew Carnegie
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Johannes Kepler
Continental System
35. 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.
Adam Smith
Brezhnev Doctrine
Russian Revolution
Catherine the Great
36. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Adam Smith
Bradenburg-Prussia
Allies
Benito Mussolini
37. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
North German Confederation
Home Rule
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
38. 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
Dutch Republic
John F. Kennedy
Paracelsus
Potsdam
39. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Rene Descartes
Tories
Thomas Malthus
40. 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).
Secularization
Benjamin Disraeli
Georges Jacques Danton
Catherine the Great
41. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Potsdam
Austro-Piedmontese War
Assembly of Notables
Congress of Vienna
42. 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.
New Economic Policy
Lateran Pact
Battle of the Bulge
Herbert Spencer
43. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Edward Gibbon
Oliver Cromwell
Congress of Vienna
44. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Oliver Cromwell
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Whigs
Tories
45. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Triple Entente
Giuseppe Mazzini
Warsaw Pact
Holy Alliance
46. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Count Cavour
Thermidorian Reaction
Secularization
Edinburgh
47. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
John Locke
Louis XIV
Spanish Civil War
48. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Jacobins
Treaty of Paris
Marie Curie
Galileo Galilei
49. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
James Watt
Labour Party
Dulce et Decorum Est
French Revolution of 1848
50. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Sergei Witte
Rene Descartes
Boer War