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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Whigs
Charles X
Austro-Piedmontese War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
2. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Edict of Nantes
soviets
Marshall plan
Stalingrad
3. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Marie Curie
Louis XIV
Paris Commune
Johannes Kepler
4. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Russo-Japanese War
Spanish-American War
Holy Alliance
First and Second International
5. 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.
Reform Bill
Fabian Society
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Legislative Assembly
6. 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
Revolution from Above
Franco-Prussian War
Free French
7. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Thermidorian Reaction
Stalingrad
Secularization
Treaty of Frankfurt
8. 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
Public Health Act
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
9. 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
Eastern Question
Nazi
Social Democratic Party
Jean Paul Marat
10. 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.
Easter Rising
Blaise Pascal
Joseph II
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Franz Ferdinand
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mary Wollstonecraft
Triple Alliance
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
fire at the Reichstag
Atlantic Charter
Catherine the Great
13. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Emelyn Pugachev
Revolution from Above
Spanish-American War
Robert Koch
14. 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
Legislative Assembly
Benjamin Disraeli
Treaty of Tilsit
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
15. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Edict of Nantes
Korean War
Herbert Spencer
Edward Gibbon
16. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Labour Party
Soviet-Afghan War
British East India Company
17. Important ZIONIST.
Daimler and Benz
Red Russians
Theodore Herzl
Russo-Japanese War
18. 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.
Adam Smith
Napoleon
Reform Bill
Adolf Eichmann
19. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Enclosure movement
Free French
20. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Marie Curie
Emmeline Prankhurst
Napoleon
21. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Utilitarianism
Paracelsus
Napoleon
22. 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
Emmeline Prankhurst
ancien regime
Central Powers.
23. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Joseph Stalin
Emmeline Prankhurst
Easter Rising
Tories
24. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Ottoman empire dissolved
John Locke
Vladimir Lenin
Public Health Act
25. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Peter the Great
Joseph Stalin
Enclosure movement
26. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Home Rule
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
27. 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.'
Louis XIV
Mary Wollstonecraft
Count Cavour
Emmeline Prankhurst
28. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Vichy Regime
Boer War
Paracelsus
Vladimir Lenin
29. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Leipzig
Joseph Stalin
Louis Philippe I
30. 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
Factory Act
Louis XIV
James Watt
Francois Voltaire
31. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Jacobins
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Paracelsus
Enigma
32. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Steel
John Rockefeller
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Marshall plan
33. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
War of Austrian Succession
Final Solution
Atlantic Charter
Brezhnev Doctrine
34. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
vanguard
Legislative Assembly
Frederick the Great
35. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Spanish-American War
Georges Jacques Danton
Reform Bill
36. 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
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Seven Year's War
'Turnip' Townsend
37. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Central Powers.
Vesalius
Lusitania
38. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Reform Bill
conscription
Revolution from Above
39. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Paracelsus
New Economic Policy
Franz Ferdinand
soviets
40. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
James Watt
Social Democratic Party
French Revolution of 1848
Emmeline Prankhurst
41. 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.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Allied Powers
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
North German Confederation
42. 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.
Tories
The War of Jenkin's Ear
James Watt
Jacobins
43. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
conscription
Brezhnev Doctrine
Social Democratic Party
Peter the Great
44. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Kronstadt
Thomas Malthus
ultraroyalists
John F. Kennedy
45. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Committee of Public Safety
Allies
Louis Philippe I
Lusitania
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.
Austro-Piedmontese War
The Glorious Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Revolution from Above
47. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Treaty of Frankfurt
Allies
Treaty of Tilsit
48. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Zimmerman telegram
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Seven Year's War
Gottfried Leibniz
49. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
soviets
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Crimean War
John F. Kennedy
50. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Vladimir Lenin
Volksgeist
Ottoman empire dissolved