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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Dutch Republic
Seven Year's War
Treaty of London
Kulaks
2. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Marshall plan
Sergei Witte
Count Cavour
Herbert Spencer
3. 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
Central Powers.
Isaac Newton
Enigma
Austro-Piedmontese War
4. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
North German Confederation
Holy Alliance
ancien regime
Vichy Regime
5. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Directory
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Quadruple Alliance
6. 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
Steel
Treaty of London
Vichy Regime
7. 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.
Nazi
Final Solution
Boer War
Black Shirt March
8. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Thermidorian Reaction
Triple Alliance
Vichy Regime
Labour Party
9. Important ZIONIST.
Nikita Khrushchev
Theodore Herzl
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of London
10. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Benito Mussolini
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Catherine the Great
Tories
11. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
soviets
Sergei Witte
Chartist Movement
Directory
12. 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.
Georges Jacques Danton
'Turnip' Townsend
Seven Weeks' War
Assembly of Notables
13. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Edict of Nantes
Adolf Eichmann
Russian Revolution
14. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Leipzig
Free French
Third International
Vladimir Lenin
15. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Triple Alliance
Tories
Edinburgh
16. 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.
Marshall plan
ultraroyalists
Declaration of Pillnitz
Crimean War
17. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Edinburgh
Louis XIV
Steel
18. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Continental System
Gottfried Leibniz
Absolutism
19. 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.
Jacobins
Adam Smith
Edict of Nantes
Denis Diderot
20. 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.
Social Democratic Party
Greek Revolution
Napoleon
Nikita Khrushchev
21. 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
Warsaw Pact
Dulce et Decorum Est
Copernicus
Treaty of Paris
22. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Boer War
Lusitania
Nazi
Emelyn Pugachev
23. 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.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Nikita Khrushchev
Greek Revolution
Volksgeist
24. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Jean Paul Marat
Lusitania
Denis Diderot
Gottfried Leibniz
25. 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.
Girondins
Emmeline Prankhurst
Thermidor
ultraroyalists
26. 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
Adam Smith
John Locke
Thermidorian Reaction
Final Solution
27. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Battle of the Somme
Korean War
Rene Descartes
Home Rule
28. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Allied Powers
New Economic Policy
Quadruple Alliance
ancien regime
29. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Allied Powers
Soviet-Afghan War
Red Russians
Axis Powers
30. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Treaty of Paris
Jacobins
Treaty of Frankfurt
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
31. Discovered radium.
Russo-Japanese War
Marie Curie
Catherine the Great
Warsaw Pact
32. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Kronstadt
John Stuart Mill
William Gladstone
Vichy Regime
33. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
conscription
Central Powers.
Dulce et Decorum Est
vanguard
34. A Jewish British prime minister.
James Watt
Korean War
Benjamin Disraeli
Berlin Conference
35. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Allies
William and Catherine Booth
Georges Jacques Danton
ultraroyalists
36. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Dual Monarchy
Allied Powers
Absolutism
Whigs
37. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Spanish Civil War
Enigma
Franco-Prussian War
Peter the Great
38. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Austro-Piedmontese War
John Locke
Ferdinand VII
Fabian Society
39. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Utilitarianism
Dulce et Decorum Est
Dual Monarchy
40. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
War of Austrian Succession
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Spanish-American War
Austria-Hungary
41. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Steel
Seven Weeks' War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
42. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
New Economic Policy
Treaty of Tilsit
Marshall plan
43. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
William and Catherine Booth
Nikita Khrushchev
Fabian Society
Austro-Piedmontese War
44. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ottoman empire dissolved
Catherine the Great
45. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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46. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Seven Year's War
Ferdinand VII
Vichy Regime
47. Founded the Salvation Army
Copernicus
Austro-Piedmontese War
William and Catherine Booth
Concert of Europe
48. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Warsaw Pact
Galileo Galilei
Allies
Committee of Public Safety
49. 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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Brezhnev Doctrine
Louis Philippe I
Quadruple Alliance
50. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Ferdinand VII
Copernicus
Emmeline Prankhurst
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