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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.
James Watt
Treaty of Frankfurt
War of Austrian Succession
Kulaks
2. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
North German Confederation
Friedrich Nietzsche
British East India Company
Vladimir Lenin
3. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Lateran Pact
Franco-Prussian War
Edmund Burke
Russian Revolution
4. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
William Gladstone
Charles X
Soviet-Afghan War
5. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Blaise Pascal
Kronstadt
John Rockefeller
Fabian Society
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.
Third International
Secularization
Lusitania
Holy Alliance
7. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Battle of the Somme
Tories
Home Rule
8. 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
Axis Powers
Emmanuel Sieyes
Jean Paul Marat
Ferdinand VII
9. 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.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Panther
Battle of Adowa
Lateran Pact
10. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Whigs
Kulaks
Giuseppe Mazzini
Easter Rising
11. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
North German Confederation
Spanish-American War
Johannes Kepler
Napoleon
12. 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.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Count Cavour
Black Shirt March
Rene Descartes
13. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Factory Act
Third International
Mary Wollstonecraft
14. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Charles X
Battle of the Bulge
Charles Albert
Herbert Spencer
15. 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
English Civil War
Franco-Prussian War
Concert of Europe
16. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Adolf Eichmann
Leipzig
Spanish-American War
Lenin and Trotsky
17. 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.
Directory
North German Confederation
Sergei Witte
Black Shirt March
18. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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19. 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.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Seven Weeks' War
Transcendentalists
Bishop Bossuet
20. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Greek Revolution
Berlin Conference
Continental System
Ptolemy
21. 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
Berlin Conference
Warsaw Pact
Sergei Witte
English Civil War
22. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Potsdam
Johannes Kepler
Allies
Vladimir Lenin
23. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Treaty of Paris
Labour Party
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Revisionists
24. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Thermidor
Joseph II
Crimean War
25. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Charles Albert
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Sergei Witte
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
26. 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
White Russians
Zimmerman telegram
Quadruple Alliance
Bradenburg-Prussia
27. 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
Steel
Public Health Act
Treaty of Frankfurt
28. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Easter Rising
John Rockefeller
New Economic Policy
Adolf Eichmann
29. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
British East India Company
Potsdam
Bishop Bossuet
Battle of Adowa
30. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
John F. Kennedy
Treaty of Paris
John Rockefeller
Quadruple Alliance
31. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Jean Paul Marat
Revisionists
Rene Descartes
Austro-Piedmontese War
32. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Home Rule
Treaty of London
Austria-Hungary
Andrew Carnegie
33. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Labour Party
Stalingrad
French Revolution of 1848
Revolution from Above
34. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Quadruple Alliance
Cecil Rhodes.
Bishop Bossuet
35. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Allied Powers
Jacobins
First and Second International
Axis Powers
36. 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.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Adolf Eichmann
Sergei Witte
Petition of Rights
37. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Francois Voltaire
Petition of Rights
Bradenburg-Prussia
38. 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.
English Civil War
British East India Company
Marshall plan
Benjamin Disraeli
39. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Lateran Pact
Vichy Regime
Korean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
40. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Enclosure movement
Soviet-Afghan War
Kulaks
Directory
41. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Black Shirt March
Quadruple Alliance
Herbert Spencer
Ottoman empire dissolved
42. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Dutch Republic
Jean Paul Marat
Social Democratic Party
Emmeline Prankhurst
43. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Atlantic Charter
British East India Company
Bishop Bossuet
Kulaks
44. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Boer War
Frederick the Great
soviets
Ottoman empire dissolved
45. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Napoleon
Thermidor
Red Russians
46. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
fire at the Reichstag
Labour Party
47. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Treaty of Paris
Jacobins
conscription
48. 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
ultraroyalists
Labour Party
Whigs
49. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Adam Smith
Cecil Rhodes.
Thirty Years' War
Ferdinand VII
50. 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
Labour Party
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Battle of the Somme
Isaac Newton