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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Chartist Movement
Rene Descartes
William and Catherine Booth
2. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Stalingrad
The War of Jenkin's Ear
soviets
3. 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.
X-Ray
North German Confederation
Treaty of London
British East India Company
4. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Third International
Battle of the Bulge
Kronstadt
Sir Francis Bacon
5. Extermination of the Jews.
Easter Rising
Final Solution
Theodore Herzl
Soviet-Afghan War
6. 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
Isaac Newton
Louis XIV
Continental System
Whigs
7. 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
ancien regime
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Steel
Treaty of Frankfurt
8. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Black Shirt March
James Watt
Denis Diderot
Ferdinand VII
9. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Russian Revolution
Continental System
British East India Company
Adolf Eichmann
10. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Dutch Republic
Andrew Carnegie
X-Ray
Utilitarianism
11. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Legislative Assembly
Edmund Burke
Steel
Committee of Public Safety
12. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Franz Ferdinand
Soviet-Afghan War
ultraroyalists
Crimean War
13. A Jewish British prime minister.
Nikita Khrushchev
Steel
Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Disraeli
14. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Edict of Nantes
Adam Smith
soviets
15. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Adam Smith
Herbert Spencer
Revisionists
Austria-Hungary
16. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Copernicus
John Locke
Adam Smith
Whigs
17. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Mary Wollstonecraft
Secularization
Nazi
18. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
John Locke
conscription
Triple Entente
Red Russians
19. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Thermidorian Reaction
James Watt
Utilitarianism
War of Austrian Succession
20. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Emmanuel Sieyes
Thirty Years' War
Greek Revolution
21. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Congress of Vienna
Enigma
Transcendentalists
22. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Potsdam
New Economic Policy
Thirty Years' War
23. 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
Fascist Party
Benito Mussolini
Copernicus
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
24. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Fascist Party
Triple Alliance
Peter the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
25. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Dual Monarchy
Isaac Newton
First and Second International
Potsdam
26. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Utilitarianism
Seven Weeks' War
Ptolemy
Charles Albert
27. 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
Ferdinand VII
Social Democratic Party
Marie Curie
28. 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.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Spanish-American War
Petition of Rights
Girondins
29. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Eastern Question
Sergei Witte
Enigma
Joseph Stalin
30. 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.
William Gladstone
Reform Bill
Treaty of London
Louis Philippe I
31. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Bradenburg-Prussia
Ptolemy
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
32. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Chartist Movement
Home Rule
Crimean War
Lenin and Trotsky
33. 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.
Dual Monarchy
Labour Party
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Denis Diderot
34. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Lateran Pact
Spanish-American War
English Civil War
35. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Revisionists
Ptolemy
Franz Ferdinand
Spanish Civil War
36. 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
French Revolution of 1848
John Rockefeller
Giuseppe Mazzini
37. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Charles Montesquieu
Seven Year's War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Spanish-American War
38. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Treaty of London
Isaac Newton
Emmanuel Sieyes
Ferdinand VII
39. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
John Rockefeller
Final Solution
Congress of Vienna
40. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Benjamin Disraeli
Factory Act
Absolutism
Heinrich Himmler
41. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
French Revolution of 1848
Panther
Enigma
Daimler and Benz
42. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Labour Party
Thomas Malthus
Sergei Witte
Copernicus
43. 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.
Marshall plan
Treaty of Tilsit
Ferdinand VII
Continental System
44. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Continental System
Andrew Carnegie
Petition of Rights
45. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Isaac Newton
Thomas Malthus
Mary Wollstonecraft
46. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Social Democratic Party
Labour Party
Whigs
47. 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.
Red Russians
Seven Year's War
Reform Bill
Congress of Vienna
48. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Louis XIV
Giuseppe Mazzini
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Dual Monarchy
49. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of London
Treaty of Frankfurt
50. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Tories
British East India Company
Johannes Kepler
ultraroyalists