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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Leipzig
Brezhnev Doctrine
Red Russians
2. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Chartist Movement
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Transcendentalists
3. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Triple Alliance
Social Democratic Party
Peter the Great
4. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Austro-Piedmontese War
Whigs
Enclosure movement
5. 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.
Kronstadt
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Continental System
Ottoman empire dissolved
6. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
John F. Kennedy
Herbert Spencer
Thermidor
7. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Daimler and Benz
Austro-Piedmontese War
Central Powers.
8. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Fascist Party
Giueseppe Garibaldi
John F. Kennedy
9. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Berlin Conference
Volksgeist
conscription
10. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Treaty of Tilsit
Greek Revolution
Isaac Newton
11. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Declaration of Pillnitz
John Rockefeller
James Watt
Whigs
12. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Jean Paul Marat
X-Ray
Factory Act
Russo-Japanese War
13. 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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Blaise Pascal
Emmeline Prankhurst
Vladimir Lenin
14. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Peter the Great
Crimean War
Johannes Kepler
Triple Entente
15. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Theodore Herzl
Red Russians
Public Health Act
fire at the Reichstag
16. 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
Lateran Pact
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Spanish-American War
Thermidorian Reaction
17. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Benjamin Disraeli
Holy Alliance
Allies
18. 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
James Watt
Treaty of Frankfurt
Isaac Newton
Third International
19. 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.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Catherine the Great
Giueseppe Garibaldi
John Stuart Mill
20. 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
conscription
John Rockefeller
Revolution from Above
English Civil War
21. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Giuseppe Mazzini
John Rockefeller
Declaration of Pillnitz
22. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Girondins
Home Rule
Whigs
23. Britain and America
Tories
Transcendentalists
Allied Powers
Dutch Republic
24. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Denis Diderot
Charles Albert
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Dulce et Decorum Est
25. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Denis Diderot
Triple Alliance
Revolution from Above
North German Confederation
26. 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.
Third International
Revolution from Above
Korean War
Heinrich Himmler
27. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Berlin Conference
Emmeline Prankhurst
Vichy Regime
Crimean War
28. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Rene Descartes
The Glorious Revolution
ancien regime
Austro-Piedmontese War
29. 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.'
vanguard
Bishop Bossuet
William Gladstone
Public Health Act
30. 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).
Dulce et Decorum Est
Georges Jacques Danton
Frederick the Great
Count Cavour
31. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Revisionists
Home Rule
Edict of Nantes
Triple Entente
32. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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33. 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
Concert of Europe
North German Confederation
Jean Paul Marat
Blaise Pascal
34. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Cecil Rhodes.
Treaty of Tilsit
Mary Wollstonecraft
Nazi
35. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Isaac Newton
Emelyn Pugachev
Korean War
36. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Joseph Stalin
Kulaks
War of Austrian Succession
37. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Girondins
Greek Revolution
Central Powers.
38. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Soviet-Afghan War
Blaise Pascal
Enclosure movement
John F. Kennedy
39. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Joseph Stalin
William and Catherine Booth
Emmanuel Sieyes
Rene Descartes
40. A Jewish British prime minister.
Benito Mussolini
Benjamin Disraeli
Holy Alliance
Enclosure movement
41. 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.
Spanish Civil War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Count Cavour
Treaty of Tilsit
42. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Blaise Pascal
Treaty of Tilsit
Robert Koch
Factory Act
43. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Leipzig
Whigs
Joseph Stalin
William Gladstone
44. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Korean War
Directory
Panther
French Revolution of 1848
45. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Panther
Quadruple Alliance
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Utilitarianism
46. A military draft
conscription
Jean Paul Marat
X-Ray
Daimler and Benz
47. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Brezhnev Doctrine
ancien regime
Central Powers.
Charles X
48. 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.
Sergei Witte
Battle of Adowa
Galileo Galilei
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
49. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Final Solution
Transcendentalists
Ottoman empire dissolved
Charles Albert
50. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
ultraroyalists
Edinburgh
Committee of Public Safety
Greek Revolution