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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
John Locke
Andrew Carnegie
Treaty of Paris
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Nazi
Leipzig
Brezhnev Doctrine
Emmeline Prankhurst
3. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Kronstadt
Austria-Hungary
First and Second International
fire at the Reichstag
4. (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
Spanish Civil War
Adam Smith
War of Austrian Succession
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
5. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Absolutism
Thomas Malthus
Bradenburg-Prussia
Assembly of Notables
6. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Thermidorian Reaction
X-Ray
Paracelsus
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
7. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Triple Alliance
John F. Kennedy
Andrew Carnegie
Zimmerman telegram
8. 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.
Crimean War
Stalingrad
Allied Powers
The Glorious Revolution
9. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Fabian Society
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Catherine the Great
10. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Dutch Republic
Emmeline Prankhurst
Emmanuel Sieyes
Committee of Public Safety
11. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Potsdam
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Charles X
Petition of Rights
12. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Joseph Stalin
Allied Powers
Kronstadt
James Watt
13. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Petition of Rights
Friedrich Nietzsche
Third International
14. 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
Benjamin Disraeli
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
John F. Kennedy
15. 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
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Spanish-American War
British East India Company
16. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
White Russians
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Emmanuel Sieyes
Berlin Conference
17. A military draft
conscription
Benito Mussolini
Paracelsus
Korean War
18. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Assembly of Notables
New Economic Policy
Vesalius
19. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Korean War
Louis XIV
Enclosure movement
20. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Emelyn Pugachev
Fascist Party
Daimler and Benz
Benito Mussolini
21. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Third International
Labour Party
Thermidorian Reaction
Charles Albert
22. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Benjamin Disraeli
Austria-Hungary
Edward Gibbon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
23. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Thermidorian Reaction
Panther
Dual Monarchy
Isaac Newton
24. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Edinburgh
Paris Commune
Austro-Piedmontese War
French Revolution of 1848
25. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Copernicus
Boer War
New Economic Policy
Blaise Pascal
26. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Allies
Count Cavour
Labour Party
Treaty of Frankfurt
27. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Berlin Conference
Jean Paul Marat
'Turnip' Townsend
28. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Edict of Nantes
conscription
Benito Mussolini
Third International
29. 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.
First and Second International
Panther
Secularization
Lateran Pact
30. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Triple Alliance
Treaty of Paris
Ferdinand VII
'Turnip' Townsend
31. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Thermidorian Reaction
Dulce et Decorum Est
Legislative Assembly
32. 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.
Emmeline Prankhurst
'Turnip' Townsend
Charles Albert
Joseph II
33. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Thirty Years' War
Paracelsus
Spanish Civil War
34. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Committee of Public Safety
Kronstadt
soviets
Factory Act
35. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Russo-Japanese War
William Gladstone
Louis Philippe I
vanguard
36. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Congress of Vienna
Boer War
John F. Kennedy
Ptolemy
37. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Seven Weeks' War
Whigs
Ottoman empire dissolved
French Revolution of 1848
38. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Dutch Republic
Tories
Seven Weeks' War
Charles Albert
39. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Home Rule
Directory
Sergei Witte
Friedrich Nietzsche
40. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
English Civil War
Frederick the Great
Napoleon
41. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Adam Smith
Allies
Spanish Civil War
Petition of Rights
42. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Spanish-American War
ancien regime
Galileo Galilei
43. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Revolution from Above
Secularization
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Fabian Society
44. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Blaise Pascal
Allies
Fascist Party
45. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Axis Powers
Triple Alliance
Battle of the Somme
John Stuart Mill
46. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Russo-Japanese War
Soviet-Afghan War
Edict of Nantes
Secularization
47. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
White Russians
Catherine the Great
Reform Bill
48. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Battle of Adowa
Assembly of Notables
Warsaw Pact
Blaise Pascal
49. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Louis Philippe I
Crimean War
Soviet-Afghan War
50. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Thomas Malthus
Ferdinand VII
Austro-Hungarian Empire