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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
conscription
Jean Paul Marat
Catherine the Great
Nazi
2. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Potsdam
Marie Curie
Herbert Spencer
3. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bishop Bossuet
British East India Company
4. 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
Marie Curie
Lenin and Trotsky
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
5. 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.
Holy Alliance
Fabian Society
Ottoman empire dissolved
Lenin and Trotsky
6. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edward Gibbon
Allied Powers
War of Austrian Succession
7. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Vichy Regime
Home Rule
War of Austrian Succession
Russo-Japanese War
8. Large Empire ruled by Habsburgs. Created after Thirty Year's War. Unstable due to ethnic - linguistic - cultural and political differences in it's people. Sided with Germany during WWI. It split up following the end of the war.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Franz Ferdinand
Concert of Europe
Frederick the Great
9. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Giuseppe Mazzini
Battle of Adowa
Lenin and Trotsky
10. 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
Seven Weeks' War
Committee of Public Safety
Marshall plan
English Civil War
11. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Kulaks
Vesalius
Oliver Cromwell
conscription
12. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Joseph Stalin
Easter Rising
Treaty of Frankfurt
Galileo Galilei
13. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Treaty of Frankfurt
Utilitarianism
Spanish Civil War
Boer War
14. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Rene Descartes
Battle of the Somme
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
15. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Legislative Assembly
Georges Jacques Danton
Free French
William and Catherine Booth
16. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Lusitania
Treaty of Tilsit
Ottoman empire dissolved
Chartist Movement
17. 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.
New Economic Policy
William Gladstone
Chartist Movement
British East India Company
18. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Franco-Prussian War
Francois Voltaire
Red Russians
Triple Entente
19. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Denis Diderot
Dual Monarchy
Atlantic Charter
Steel
20. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Kronstadt
Franz Ferdinand
Vladimir Lenin
Soviet-Afghan War
21. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Charles Montesquieu
The Glorious Revolution
22. 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
Soviet-Afghan War
Boer War
Emelyn Pugachev
23. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Directory
Treaty of Frankfurt
James Watt
Battle of the Bulge
24. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Thomas Malthus
Ottoman empire dissolved
Potsdam
Home Rule
25. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Copernicus
Red Russians
Thermidor
First and Second International
26. 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.
Labour Party
Black Shirt March
Adolf Eichmann
Social Democratic Party
27. Founded the Salvation Army
First and Second International
Mary Wollstonecraft
Franz Ferdinand
William and Catherine Booth
28. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
John Locke
Spanish Civil War
Adolf Eichmann
29. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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30. 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
John Locke
Joseph II
Robert Koch
Vesalius
31. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Galileo Galilei
Central Powers.
Battle of the Somme
32. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Francois Voltaire
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Marshall plan
Red Russians
33. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Sergei Witte
Potsdam
Battle of Adowa
34. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
Benjamin Disraeli
Triple Alliance
Vladimir Lenin
35. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Social Democratic Party
Labour Party
Daimler and Benz
Emelyn Pugachev
36. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Robert Koch
Treaty of Frankfurt
Assembly of Notables
Austro-Piedmontese War
37. 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
ancien regime
Copernicus
Vesalius
Petition of Rights
38. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Austria-Hungary
John Stuart Mill
Dulce et Decorum Est
Sir Francis Bacon
39. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Fascist Party
Axis Powers
Charles Montesquieu
Johannes Kepler
40. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Blaise Pascal
Triple Entente
Austro-Piedmontese War
Seven Weeks' War
41. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Eastern Question
Vladimir Lenin
Social Democratic Party
Chartist Movement
42. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Stalingrad
Nikita Khrushchev
Free French
Triple Entente
43. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Edmund Burke
X-Ray
Charles X
John Rockefeller
44. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Edinburgh
Allied Powers
Easter Rising
Herbert Spencer
45. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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46. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Charles X
British East India Company
Herbert Spencer
Congress of Vienna
47. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Thermidor
Adolf Eichmann
Home Rule
48. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Greek Revolution
Galileo Galilei
New Economic Policy
Assembly of Notables
49. 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
Emmeline Prankhurst
New Economic Policy
Dutch Republic
Napoleon
50. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Easter Rising
Louis XIV
Concert of Europe
Peter the Great