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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Battle of Adowa
Joseph II
Assembly of Notables
2. 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.
Secularization
Isaac Newton
Petition of Rights
Jean Paul Marat
3. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Kronstadt
Count Cavour
Austro-Piedmontese War
Soviet-Afghan War
4. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Transcendentalists
Stalingrad
Marshall plan
Copernicus
5. 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
John Locke
Bradenburg-Prussia
Congress of Vienna
6. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Korean War
Vichy Regime
Andrew Carnegie
7. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Battle of the Bulge
William Gladstone
Free French
Factory Act
8. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Lenin and Trotsky
Heinrich Himmler
Sergei Witte
Paracelsus
9. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
Ferdinand VII
The War of Jenkin's Ear
vanguard
10. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Absolutism
Austria-Hungary
Paracelsus
John Rockefeller
11. 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
Edward Gibbon
Thermidor
Treaty of Frankfurt
12. 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
Louis Philippe I
Thirty Years' War
Isaac Newton
Stalingrad
13. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Treaty of Frankfurt
Absolutism
Austro-Piedmontese War
14. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
ultraroyalists
Sir Francis Bacon
The War of Jenkin's Ear
15. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Continental System
Enclosure movement
Berlin Conference
Steel
16. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Public Health Act
Russian Revolution
Charles Albert
17. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
ancien regime
William Gladstone
Fascist Party
18. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Concert of Europe
Congress of Vienna
Absolutism
19. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Utilitarianism
Easter Rising
Secularization
Count Cavour
20. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Enigma
Thirty Years' War
Peter the Great
Andrew Carnegie
21. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Fabian Society
Easter Rising
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
John Rockefeller
22. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Benito Mussolini
X-Ray
Third International
Gottfried Leibniz
23. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Brezhnev Doctrine
Lusitania
24. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Final Solution
John Locke
25. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Louis XIV
War of Austrian Succession
Francois Voltaire
26. 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.
North German Confederation
Heinrich Himmler
Bradenburg-Prussia
Dutch Republic
27. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Cecil Rhodes.
Final Solution
Reform Bill
Kronstadt
28. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Peter the Great
Rene Descartes
Joseph II
Revisionists
29. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Battle of Adowa
Ferdinand VII
Austro-Hungarian Empire
soviets
30. 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.
Thirty Years' War
Copernicus
Oliver Cromwell
Revisionists
31. Britain and America
Whigs
North German Confederation
Secularization
Allied Powers
32. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Kronstadt
Black Shirt March
Austro-Hungarian Empire
33. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Charles Albert
William Gladstone
Fascist Party
Third International
34. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Charles Montesquieu
ancien regime
Soviet-Afghan War
Social Democratic Party
35. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Treaty of Tilsit
Marshall plan
Absolutism
36. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Edinburgh
French Revolution of 1848
Absolutism
37. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Steel
Paracelsus
Jean Paul Marat
38. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Volksgeist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Benito Mussolini
Treaty of Tilsit
39. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Warsaw Pact
soviets
ancien regime
Absolutism
40. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
The Glorious Revolution
War of Austrian Succession
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
41. 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.
Joseph II
Count Cavour
Red Russians
Vladimir Lenin
42. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
James Watt
Joseph Stalin
Sergei Witte
43. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treaty of Tilsit
Leipzig
Herbert Spencer
44. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Spanish Civil War
Reform Bill
X-Ray
45. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Girondins
Reform Bill
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
46. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Napoleon
Third International
Lusitania
soviets
47. 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
Treaty of Tilsit
Russo-Japanese War
Louis Philippe I
48. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Louis Philippe I
Friedrich Nietzsche
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austria-Hungary
49. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Vichy Regime
Declaration of Pillnitz
Rene Descartes
50. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Boer War
Enigma
Edmund Burke
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact