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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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2. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Triple Entente
Catherine the Great
Giuseppe Mazzini
Absolutism
3. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Emelyn Pugachev
Axis Powers
Benjamin Disraeli
Andrew Carnegie
4. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Korean War
Emmanuel Sieyes
Lusitania
Edict of Nantes
5. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
ultraroyalists
William and Catherine Booth
ancien regime
Ptolemy
6. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Vladimir Lenin
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Reform Bill
Holy Alliance
7. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Ottoman empire dissolved
fire at the Reichstag
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
8. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Paracelsus
Adolf Eichmann
Emelyn Pugachev
Secularization
9. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Benito Mussolini
Russo-Japanese War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Battle of the Bulge
10. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Bishop Bossuet
Revolution from Above
Thermidor
Lusitania
11. 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.
Joseph Stalin
Jean Paul Marat
Volksgeist
Georges Jacques Danton
12. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Edinburgh
Home Rule
Emelyn Pugachev
Louis XIV
13. 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.
Dutch Republic
Lateran Pact
Paracelsus
Adam Smith
14. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Louis XIV
Spanish Civil War
15. 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
Francois Voltaire
Enclosure movement
Thermidorian Reaction
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
16. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Edward Gibbon
Charles Montesquieu
Giuseppe Mazzini
Continental System
17. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Jacobins
New Economic Policy
Quadruple Alliance
English Civil War
18. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Spanish-American War
White Russians
Benito Mussolini
John Stuart Mill
19. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Ottoman empire dissolved
Congress of Vienna
Edict of Nantes
20. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
First and Second International
Tories
Russo-Japanese War
Brezhnev Doctrine
21. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Directory
Legislative Assembly
Enigma
Treaty of London
22. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet-Afghan War
Adolf Eichmann
Transcendentalists
23. 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
Giuseppe Mazzini
conscription
Brezhnev Doctrine
24. 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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25. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Napoleon
ancien regime
White Russians
Treaty of Paris
26. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Petition of Rights
Paris Commune
Gottfried Leibniz
27. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
fire at the Reichstag
Marie Curie
The Glorious Revolution
Lusitania
28. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
First and Second International
Declaration of Pillnitz
Free French
Paracelsus
29. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Charles Montesquieu
James Watt
soviets
British East India Company
30. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Copernicus
Axis Powers
Vladimir Lenin
Third International
31. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Charles Montesquieu
Petition of Rights
Herbert Spencer
32. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
John Rockefeller
vanguard
Axis Powers
Kulaks
33. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Battle of the Bulge
Chartist Movement
Leipzig
Spanish-American War
34. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Sergei Witte
Dutch Republic
vanguard
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
35. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Panther
Cecil Rhodes.
Robert Koch
John Locke
36. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Denis Diderot
vanguard
John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft
37. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Petition of Rights
Crimean War
Georges Jacques Danton
Lenin and Trotsky
38. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
British East India Company
Paracelsus
Russian Revolution
Berlin Conference
39. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Dual Monarchy
Lusitania
Treaty of Frankfurt
40. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Red Russians
Jacobins
Chartist Movement
41. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Paris Commune
Directory
White Russians
Battle of Adowa
42. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Herbert Spencer
Vichy Regime
Allied Powers
43. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Continental System
Red Russians
Denis Diderot
44. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
John Locke
French Revolution of 1848
Nikita Khrushchev
Vichy Regime
45. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Locke
Sir Francis Bacon
vanguard
John Rockefeller
46. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Battle of the Bulge
North German Confederation
Whigs
47. 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
Edward Gibbon
Copernicus
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Frederick the Great
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.
Theodore Herzl
Vesalius
John Locke
Austria-Hungary
49. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Francois Voltaire
Isaac Newton
Sir Francis Bacon
Russo-Japanese War
50. 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
Napoleon
Jean Paul Marat
Secularization
Adam Smith