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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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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2. 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.
Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
Lenin and Trotsky
Francois Voltaire
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.
Edmund Burke
William and Catherine Booth
Peter the Great
Franco-Prussian War
4. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Revolution from Above
Sir Francis Bacon
Johannes Kepler
'Turnip' Townsend
5. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Transcendentalists
Adolf Eichmann
Treaty of Tilsit
6. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
French Revolution of 1848
Quadruple Alliance
Emelyn Pugachev
7. 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.
Isaac Newton
Axis Powers
Crimean War
Ottoman empire dissolved
8. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Louis Philippe I
Charles Albert
Nikita Khrushchev
Kulaks
9. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Quadruple Alliance
Social Democratic Party
ancien regime
10. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Isaac Newton
Vichy Regime
Adolf Eichmann
11. 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)
Secularization
Robert Koch
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
12. 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
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Leipzig
Final Solution
13. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Petition of Rights
Austro-Piedmontese War
Robert Koch
14. 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.
John Rockefeller
Kronstadt
Johannes Kepler
Petition of Rights
15. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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16. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Revolution from Above
Edmund Burke
Nikita Khrushchev
Congress of Vienna
17. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Napoleon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Continental System
Zimmerman telegram
18. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Holy Alliance
X-Ray
Axis Powers
Revolution from Above
19. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Declaration of Pillnitz
Catherine the Great
Peter the Great
20. 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
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Joseph Stalin
Spanish-American War
Daimler and Benz
21. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Jean Paul Marat
conscription
Austro-Piedmontese War
Russo-Japanese War
22. 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.'
Marie Curie
Bishop Bossuet
Peter the Great
soviets
23. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Atlantic Charter
Nikita Khrushchev
Public Health Act
Joseph Stalin
24. 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
Catherine the Great
Atlantic Charter
Spanish Civil War
25. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Whigs
Jacobins
Emmeline Prankhurst
English Civil War
26. 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
William and Catherine Booth
Dulce et Decorum Est
Panther
Dutch Republic
27. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
War of Austrian Succession
French Revolution of 1848
Free French
28. Britain and America
Public Health Act
Soviet-Afghan War
Allied Powers
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
29. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Kronstadt
Charles Montesquieu
Battle of the Bulge
Friedrich Nietzsche
30. 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
Isaac Newton
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Zimmerman telegram
The War of Jenkin's Ear
31. 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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32. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Lenin and Trotsky
Copernicus
Louis XIV
33. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Treaty of Tilsit
Emmeline Prankhurst
North German Confederation
34. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Utilitarianism
Russian Revolution
William and Catherine Booth
35. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
British East India Company
Peter the Great
Marie Curie
36. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
English Civil War
Transcendentalists
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Jacobins
37. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Crimean War
X-Ray
soviets
fire at the Reichstag
38. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Steel
Edinburgh
Vichy Regime
Berlin Conference
39. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Cecil Rhodes.
Austria-Hungary
William Gladstone
40. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Andrew Carnegie
Petition of Rights
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. 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
Vesalius
John Rockefeller
Dulce et Decorum Est
Potsdam
42. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Austria-Hungary
ultraroyalists
Congress of Vienna
43. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Absolutism
Galileo Galilei
James Watt
Axis Powers
44. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Dual Monarchy
Nazi
Treaty of Tilsit
Treaty of Frankfurt
45. 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
Third International
Stalingrad
Revisionists
46. A military draft
Charles Albert
conscription
Seven Weeks' War
Paris Commune
47. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Final Solution
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Triple Entente
Copernicus
48. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Theodore Herzl
French Revolution of 1848
soviets
49. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
ancien regime
Paracelsus
Giuseppe Mazzini
Bradenburg-Prussia
50. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Seven Year's War
Sergei Witte
Warsaw Pact
Whigs