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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Peter the Great
Congress of Vienna
Edmund Burke
Giueseppe Garibaldi
2. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Charles Albert
The Glorious Revolution
Franco-Prussian War
3. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Whigs
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Seven Year's War
Greek Revolution
4. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Third International
Georges Jacques Danton
Denis Diderot
Congress of Vienna
5. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Denis Diderot
Vesalius
Charles Albert
Korean War
6. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Frederick the Great
Adolf Eichmann
Rene Descartes
ancien regime
7. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Girondins
Steel
Edward Gibbon
Directory
8. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Soviet-Afghan War
Russian Revolution
Transcendentalists
9. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Frederick the Great
Ferdinand VII
Johannes Kepler
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)
Edinburgh
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Benito Mussolini
Denis Diderot
11. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Secularization
Dutch Republic
Herbert Spencer
Free French
12. 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.
Fascist Party
Panther
Marshall plan
Andrew Carnegie
13. 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.
Utilitarianism
Third International
Lenin and Trotsky
Triple Entente
14. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Seven Weeks' War
Spanish-American War
Treaty of Paris
Giuseppe Mazzini
15. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Allies
Francois Voltaire
Sergei Witte
Catherine the Great
16. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Paracelsus
North German Confederation
Louis Philippe I
17. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Factory Act
Axis Powers
Mary Wollstonecraft
18. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
John Locke
Volksgeist
Joseph Stalin
19. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Lateran Pact
Catherine the Great
Revolution from Above
20. 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
Triple Alliance
Atlantic Charter
John Locke
Gottfried Leibniz
21. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Petition of Rights
Legislative Assembly
Fascist Party
22. 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.
Social Democratic Party
Oliver Cromwell
Seven Year's War
Isaac Newton
23. 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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24. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Glorious Revolution
Emmanuel Sieyes
Adam Smith
25. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Warsaw Pact
Factory Act
Jean Paul Marat
Ptolemy
26. 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.
Tories
Edmund Burke
Blaise Pascal
Transcendentalists
27. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Emelyn Pugachev
ancien regime
John Rockefeller
28. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Thermidorian Reaction
Adolf Eichmann
Leipzig
Brezhnev Doctrine
29. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Louis Philippe I
Triple Alliance
Allies
30. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Ptolemy
Thermidorian Reaction
Triple Alliance
31. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Battle of the Somme
Labour Party
Charles X
32. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Triple Entente
Treaty of Frankfurt
Andrew Carnegie
Red Russians
33. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
fire at the Reichstag
William and Catherine Booth
Utilitarianism
Austria-Hungary
34. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Count Cavour
Leipzig
Emelyn Pugachev
Labour Party
35. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Charles Albert
Quadruple Alliance
Allies
Ferdinand VII
36. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Panther
Count Cavour
Lateran Pact
37. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Revolution from Above
Georges Jacques Danton
vanguard
conscription
38. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Declaration of Pillnitz
Utilitarianism
Charles Albert
39. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Revisionists
Factory Act
Social Democratic Party
X-Ray
40. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Benjamin Disraeli
Emelyn Pugachev
Marshall plan
41. (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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Austria-Hungary
War of Austrian Succession
James Watt
42. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Sergei Witte
Spanish-American War
Blaise Pascal
43. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Reform Bill
Robert Koch
Sir Francis Bacon
Triple Alliance
44. 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
Joseph Stalin
Enclosure movement
Triple Entente
Count Cavour
45. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
War of Austrian Succession
Treaty of Tilsit
North German Confederation
Brezhnev Doctrine
46. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Galileo Galilei
Battle of the Somme
Sir Francis Bacon
Boer War
47. 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.
Lusitania
Continental System
Easter Rising
French Revolution of 1848
48. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Congress of Vienna
Stalingrad
Blaise Pascal
49. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jacobins
New Economic Policy
Revisionists
50. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Panther
Treaty of Tilsit
Easter Rising
White Russians
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