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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Isaac Newton
French Revolution of 1848
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. 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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3. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Zimmerman telegram
Sir Francis Bacon
Warsaw Pact
Third International
4. 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.
Triple Alliance
Austro-Piedmontese War
Lusitania
Fascist Party
5. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Thirty Years' War
'Turnip' Townsend
Red Russians
Benjamin Disraeli
6. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Zimmerman telegram
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Girondins
Francois Voltaire
7. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Stalingrad
Brezhnev Doctrine
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
8. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Axis Powers
Copernicus
fire at the Reichstag
Sergei Witte
9. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Vesalius
Social Democratic Party
Joseph II
Vladimir Lenin
10. Important ZIONIST.
Allied Powers
Fabian Society
Vesalius
Theodore Herzl
11. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Lusitania
Charles X
Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Stalin
12. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
War of Austrian Succession
Emmanuel Sieyes
French Revolution of 1848
Spanish Civil War
13. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Allied Powers
Social Democratic Party
Kronstadt
Steel
14. Extermination of the Jews.
William Gladstone
Tories
Vichy Regime
Final Solution
15. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Social Democratic Party
Thermidorian Reaction
Daimler and Benz
James Watt
16. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Triple Alliance
Legislative Assembly
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Secularization
17. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Congress of Vienna
Ottoman empire dissolved
Central Powers.
18. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Legislative Assembly
John Stuart Mill
English Civil War
Ptolemy
19. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Georges Jacques Danton
fire at the Reichstag
Catherine the Great
Legislative Assembly
20. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Treaty of London
Thirty Years' War
Assembly of Notables
Enigma
21. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Home Rule
Vladimir Lenin
John Locke
22. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Thomas Malthus
Committee of Public Safety
Ferdinand VII
Boer War
23. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Third International
Joseph Stalin
Denis Diderot
Edinburgh
24. Discovered radium.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Eastern Question
Marie Curie
Kronstadt
25. 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
Dutch Republic
Thermidor
conscription
The War of Jenkin's Ear
26. 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.
Dual Monarchy
Holy Alliance
Revolution from Above
North German Confederation
27. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Battle of Adowa
Dual Monarchy
Boer War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
28. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Joseph Stalin
War of Austrian Succession
Lenin and Trotsky
ultraroyalists
29. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
William and Catherine Booth
Mary Wollstonecraft
Berlin Conference
30. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Rene Descartes
Herbert Spencer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Revolution from Above
31. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Bishop Bossuet
Revolution from Above
Gottfried Leibniz
32. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Congress of Vienna
Fabian Society
Daimler and Benz
Vichy Regime
33. 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.
Galileo Galilei
French Revolution of 1848
Emmeline Prankhurst
Seven Weeks' War
34. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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35. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Battle of the Somme
Seven Weeks' War
John F. Kennedy
Secularization
36. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Tories
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
37. 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.
Crimean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Theodore Herzl
38. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Battle of the Bulge
White Russians
Axis Powers
Easter Rising
39. 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.
Quadruple Alliance
James Watt
John Stuart Mill
Oliver Cromwell
40. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Benjamin Disraeli
Battle of Adowa
Franco-Prussian War
James Watt
41. 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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Isaac Newton
Enclosure movement
Petition of Rights
42. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
French Revolution of 1848
Daimler and Benz
White Russians
Denis Diderot
43. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Treaty of Frankfurt
Leipzig
Secularization
Emelyn Pugachev
44. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
John Stuart Mill
Emmeline Prankhurst
Crimean War
Allies
45. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Galileo Galilei
Panther
Marshall plan
William and Catherine Booth
46. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Battle of Adowa
Boer War
Revolution from Above
Home Rule
47. 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
Absolutism
Volksgeist
Kulaks
48. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
Francois Voltaire
Adolf Eichmann
Battle of Adowa
49. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Nikita Khrushchev
Austria-Hungary
Benjamin Disraeli
50. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Final Solution
Thermidor
Declaration of Pillnitz