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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Third International
Sir Francis Bacon
White Russians
Continental System
2. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Allied Powers
Jean Paul Marat
Social Democratic Party
3. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Francois Voltaire
Quadruple Alliance
Committee of Public Safety
Panther
4. 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.
Edmund Burke
Quadruple Alliance
Austria-Hungary
Tories
5. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Austro-Piedmontese War
New Economic Policy
Brezhnev Doctrine
Thermidor
6. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Dutch Republic
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of Paris
Ptolemy
7. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
John Locke
Isaac Newton
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
8. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
fire at the Reichstag
John Locke
First and Second International
Battle of the Bulge
9. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of Tilsit
Treaty of London
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Dutch Republic
10. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Triple Alliance
Greek Revolution
Dulce et Decorum Est
Social Democratic Party
11. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Robert Koch
Secularization
Joseph Stalin
Herbert Spencer
12. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Secularization
Eastern Question
Dual Monarchy
Battle of the Somme
13. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
William and Catherine Booth
Red Russians
Treaty of Frankfurt
14. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Franz Ferdinand
Triple Alliance
Concert of Europe
Marshall plan
15. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Enigma
Concert of Europe
Brezhnev Doctrine
Boer War
16. 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.'
Thirty Years' War
Russo-Japanese War
Tories
Bishop Bossuet
17. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Nikita Khrushchev
Edinburgh
Marie Curie
Sergei Witte
18. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Ptolemy
Legislative Assembly
Congress of Vienna
Gottfried Leibniz
19. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Charles X
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Benjamin Disraeli
Kaiser Wilhelm I
20. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Russo-Japanese War
Edict of Nantes
Lateran Pact
21. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Treaty of Tilsit
First and Second International
Russo-Japanese War
22. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Joseph II
Robert Koch
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean Paul Marat
23. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Holy Alliance
Louis Philippe I
Treaty of Paris
Edict of Nantes
24. 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.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Triple Entente
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
John Stuart Mill
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
Isaac Newton
Dutch Republic
Franz Ferdinand
Francois Voltaire
26. 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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27. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Treaty of London
Louis XIV
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Continental System
28. 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.
Concert of Europe
War of Austrian Succession
Panther
Dulce et Decorum Est
29. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Third International
Isaac Newton
White Russians
30. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Denis Diderot
Battle of Adowa
White Russians
North German Confederation
31. 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.
Johannes Kepler
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Jean Paul Marat
Franco-Prussian War
32. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Black Shirt March
Charles X
Utilitarianism
Charles Albert
33. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Easter Rising
Secularization
Spanish Civil War
Count Cavour
34. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Third International
Jacobins
Eastern Question
Johannes Kepler
35. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Robert Koch
Continental System
Daimler and Benz
Russo-Japanese War
36. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Declaration of Pillnitz
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
37. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Georges Jacques Danton
Legislative Assembly
Edinburgh
Triple Entente
38. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Bishop Bossuet
Spanish-American War
Congress of Vienna
Crimean War
39. The French King who built the palace at Versailles - The longest standing King of France 'SUN KING' - - One of the most powerful monarchs of Europe - ruling 72 years. He was famous for his quote -'I AM THE STATE.' Executed by furious revolutionaries.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Louis XIV
Daimler and Benz
Crimean War
40. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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41. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Treaty of Paris
Daimler and Benz
Franz Ferdinand
Austro-Piedmontese War
42. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Kulaks
Red Russians
Thomas Malthus
Nazi
43. 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.
Absolutism
Lenin and Trotsky
Girondins
James Watt
44. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Charles X
Emmeline Prankhurst
ancien regime
John F. Kennedy
45. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Thirty Years' War
Robert Koch
Fascist Party
46. 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.
Johannes Kepler
'Turnip' Townsend
Lateran Pact
French Revolution of 1848
47. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reform Bill
Public Health Act
48. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Robert Koch
Seven Weeks' War
Friedrich Nietzsche
Easter Rising
49. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Panther
Secularization
John Rockefeller
Berlin Conference
50. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Enigma
Emelyn Pugachev
Franz Ferdinand
Bradenburg-Prussia