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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.






2. 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.






3. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.






4. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.






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






6. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.






7. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.






8. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.






9. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.






13. A Jewish British prime minister.






14. Soviet counterpart to NATO






15. 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.






16. Important ZIONIST.






17. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.






18. Discovered radium.






19. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.






20. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.






21. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.






22. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI






23. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.






24. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.






25. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.






26. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1






27. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME






28. 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






29. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.






30. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.






31. 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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32. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.






33. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.






34. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.






35. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.






36. 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.






37. 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.'






38. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.






39. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI






40. Greater freedom for Ireland.






41. 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.






42. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.






43. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.






44. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.






45. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.






46. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.






47. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed






48. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.






49. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.






50. 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.