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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Charles Albert
Revisionists
'Turnip' Townsend
Friedrich Nietzsche
2. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Charles Montesquieu
ancien regime
Congress of Vienna
William Gladstone
3. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Marie Curie
Transcendentalists
Jacobins
4. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Labour Party
Declaration of Pillnitz
Soviet-Afghan War
Andrew Carnegie
5. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Spanish Civil War
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Jacobins
Blaise Pascal
6. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Assembly of Notables
Crimean War
Daimler and Benz
Edict of Nantes
7. 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
Holy Alliance
vanguard
William and Catherine Booth
Jean Paul Marat
8. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Edinburgh
soviets
Easter Rising
Kulaks
9. 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.
Jacobins
Heinrich Himmler
Triple Alliance
Girondins
10. 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
Dual Monarchy
Dulce et Decorum Est
Thermidorian Reaction
Absolutism
11. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Third International
Friedrich Nietzsche
War of Austrian Succession
12. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Marie Curie
The Glorious Revolution
fire at the Reichstag
13. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Whigs
Committee of Public Safety
Berlin Conference
14. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Fabian Society
Continental System
Charles Montesquieu
Seven Weeks' War
15. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Tories
Nikita Khrushchev
Herbert Spencer
16. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Thomas Malthus
Gottfried Leibniz
Spanish Civil War
17. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Thirty Years' War
Central Powers.
Stalingrad
Soviet-Afghan War
18. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Thermidorian Reaction
Ottoman empire dissolved
Stalingrad
Brezhnev Doctrine
19. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Congress of Vienna
Korean War
ultraroyalists
John F. Kennedy
20. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Fascist Party
Bishop Bossuet
Battle of the Bulge
Kaiser Wilhelm I
21. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Marshall plan
Tories
Copernicus
Red Russians
22. Extermination of the Jews.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
William and Catherine Booth
Triple Entente
Final Solution
23. 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.
ancien regime
Directory
Whigs
Fascist Party
24. 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
Copernicus
Allied Powers
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Korean War
25. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
War of Austrian Succession
Galileo Galilei
Seven Year's War
Vichy Regime
26. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Enigma
Battle of the Somme
Edward Gibbon
Lenin and Trotsky
27. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Final Solution
Ferdinand VII
Robert Koch
Friedrich Nietzsche
28. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Stalingrad
Kulaks
Battle of the Bulge
Galileo Galilei
29. 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)
Treaty of Tilsit
Edmund Burke
Easter Rising
Benito Mussolini
30. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Dual Monarchy
Eastern Question
Treaty of Paris
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
31. Founded the Salvation Army
Vesalius
Jean Paul Marat
William and Catherine Booth
Edict of Nantes
32. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Enigma
Utilitarianism
Russian Revolution
33. 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.
Jacobins
Thomas Malthus
Petition of Rights
Bradenburg-Prussia
34. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Nazi
John Locke
John F. Kennedy
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
35. Important ZIONIST.
Panther
Committee of Public Safety
Ferdinand VII
Theodore Herzl
36. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Steel
Concert of Europe
Sergei Witte
Sir Francis Bacon
37. 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
Treaty of London
Paris Commune
Dutch Republic
John Locke
38. 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.
Crimean War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Black Shirt March
Emmanuel Sieyes
39. 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.
ultraroyalists
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Assembly of Notables
John F. Kennedy
40. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Committee of Public Safety
Charles Albert
James Watt
British East India Company
41. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Free French
vanguard
Berlin Conference
Thirty Years' War
42. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Louis Philippe I
conscription
Marshall plan
Stalingrad
43. 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.
Girondins
Volksgeist
Ferdinand VII
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
44. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
British East India Company
ultraroyalists
Social Democratic Party
Panther
45. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Denis Diderot
Public Health Act
Louis XIV
Declaration of Pillnitz
46. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Isaac Newton
Dual Monarchy
X-Ray
47. 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
Joseph Stalin
Isaac Newton
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gottfried Leibniz
48. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Louis XIV
British East India Company
Revolution from Above
White Russians
49. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Seven Year's War
soviets
Kulaks
50. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Jean Paul Marat
Edmund Burke
ultraroyalists
Charles Albert