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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Ptolemy
John Stuart Mill
Treaty of Frankfurt
Boer War
2. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Galileo Galilei
Concert of Europe
Herbert Spencer
Revolution from Above
3. 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
Atlantic Charter
Joseph II
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4. Britain and America
Heinrich Himmler
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Herzl
Allied Powers
5. 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
Petition of Rights
Lateran Pact
Battle of the Somme
6. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Transcendentalists
Joseph II
Kronstadt
7. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Zimmerman telegram
Ottoman empire dissolved
ancien regime
8. 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.
White Russians
Charles X
Giuseppe Mazzini
Concert of Europe
9. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Stalingrad
Edinburgh
Directory
Revolution from Above
10. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Russian Revolution
Crimean War
Transcendentalists
Directory
11. 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.
Jean Paul Marat
Eastern Question
Cecil Rhodes.
Berlin Conference
12. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Seven Weeks' War
Eastern Question
Jacobins
13. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Russo-Japanese War
Home Rule
Sir Francis Bacon
14. 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.
Peter the Great
Treaty of Tilsit
Emmeline Prankhurst
Edmund Burke
15. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Nikita Khrushchev
ultraroyalists
Battle of Adowa
Whigs
16. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Emmeline Prankhurst
Vladimir Lenin
Georges Jacques Danton
17. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Edinburgh
Frederick the Great
Oliver Cromwell
18. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Zimmerman telegram
Kulaks
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Triple Entente
19. 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.
Adam Smith
Quadruple Alliance
Assembly of Notables
John Rockefeller
20. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Third International
Joseph Stalin
Catherine the Great
Russo-Japanese War
21. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Continental System
Vichy Regime
Absolutism
Axis Powers
22. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Daimler and Benz
Berlin Conference
Heinrich Himmler
Galileo Galilei
23. Discovered radium.
Reform Bill
Marie Curie
Jean Paul Marat
conscription
24. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Edward Gibbon
Black Shirt March
Emmanuel Sieyes
Treaty of London
25. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Reform Bill
Axis Powers
Allies
26. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Mary Wollstonecraft
Factory Act
Emelyn Pugachev
Concert of Europe
27. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Thermidorian Reaction
James Watt
Allied Powers
Declaration of Pillnitz
28. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Assembly of Notables
vanguard
ultraroyalists
29. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Cecil Rhodes.
Rene Descartes
Heinrich Himmler
30. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Thirty Years' War
fire at the Reichstag
Directory
Public Health Act
31. 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
Joseph Stalin
Copernicus
conscription
Battle of the Somme
32. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Edict of Nantes
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Eastern Question
Joseph Stalin
33. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Battle of Adowa
Black Shirt March
William Gladstone
34. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Easter Rising
Nazi
soviets
Charles Montesquieu
35. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Treaty of Paris
Charles Montesquieu
Edinburgh
Greek Revolution
36. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Joseph II
Public Health Act
Berlin Conference
Kronstadt
37. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Declaration of Pillnitz
The Glorious Revolution
Marie Curie
Nikita Khrushchev
38. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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39. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Crimean War
Lenin and Trotsky
40. Founded the Salvation Army
Daimler and Benz
William and Catherine Booth
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Holy Alliance
41. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Quadruple Alliance
Ferdinand VII
Enigma
Steel
42. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Assembly of Notables
Joseph Stalin
English Civil War
Social Democratic Party
43. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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44. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Theodore Herzl
Soviet-Afghan War
John F. Kennedy
Paris Commune
45. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Russo-Japanese War
John Stuart Mill
Eastern Question
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
46. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Paris
Dutch Republic
Joseph Stalin
47. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Panther
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Sir Francis Bacon
Napoleon
48. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Ptolemy
English Civil War
Lusitania
49. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Austro-Piedmontese War
Red Russians
British East India Company
Central Powers.
50. 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.
Marshall plan
Secularization
Benjamin Disraeli
Jean-Baptiste Colbert