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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
William Gladstone
Lateran Pact
Congress of Vienna
ultraroyalists
2. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Franz Ferdinand
Girondins
Transcendentalists
James Watt
3. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Legislative Assembly
White Russians
vanguard
Giueseppe Garibaldi
4. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Emelyn Pugachev
Frederick the Great
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
5. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Isaac Newton
New Economic Policy
Seven Year's War
6. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Soviet-Afghan War
Crimean War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Denis Diderot
7. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
James Watt
Emmeline Prankhurst
Free French
Jacobins
8. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Warsaw Pact
Labour Party
Johannes Kepler
9. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
War of Austrian Succession
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Enigma
White Russians
10. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Zimmerman telegram
Korean War
Atlantic Charter
Theodore Herzl
11. 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.
Isaac Newton
Spanish Civil War
English Civil War
Nikita Khrushchev
12. 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.
Marshall plan
Catherine the Great
Petition of Rights
Warsaw Pact
13. 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
Emelyn Pugachev
Revolution from Above
Home Rule
14. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sergei Witte
Rene Descartes
Paracelsus
15. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Dual Monarchy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Copernicus
Easter Rising
16. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Francois Voltaire
Steel
Korean War
Friedrich Nietzsche
17. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
John Locke
Concert of Europe
Austro-Piedmontese War
Social Democratic Party
18. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Galileo Galilei
Ottoman empire dissolved
Giuseppe Mazzini
19. 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.
ultraroyalists
Boer War
English Civil War
Panther
20. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Spanish-American War
Blaise Pascal
Battle of Adowa
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
21. 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.
Ferdinand VII
Catherine the Great
Assembly of Notables
Andrew Carnegie
22. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Vladimir Lenin
Edinburgh
Andrew Carnegie
23. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Committee of Public Safety
Absolutism
Copernicus
Dual Monarchy
24. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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25. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Louis Philippe I
Daimler and Benz
Ottoman empire dissolved
Benito Mussolini
26. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Potsdam
Charles Albert
Zimmerman telegram
Giueseppe Garibaldi
27. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Directory
Charles Montesquieu
Ottoman empire dissolved
Adolf Eichmann
28. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Benito Mussolini
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Easter Rising
ultraroyalists
29. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of the Bulge
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Whigs
30. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Benjamin Disraeli
Ptolemy
X-Ray
Warsaw Pact
31. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Petition of Rights
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Enigma
32. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Paris Commune
William and Catherine Booth
Fabian Society
33. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charles Albert
Soviet-Afghan War
Assembly of Notables
34. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Boer War
Paracelsus
Blaise Pascal
35. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Seven Weeks' War
Battle of Adowa
Greek Revolution
Allies
36. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Benjamin Disraeli
John Rockefeller
Seven Year's War
Leipzig
37. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Whigs
Home Rule
Declaration of Pillnitz
North German Confederation
38. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Battle of the Somme
Public Health Act
Sir Francis Bacon
Continental System
39. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Ottoman empire dissolved
Emelyn Pugachev
Stalingrad
Revisionists
40. Extermination of the Jews.
Directory
Friedrich Nietzsche
Final Solution
Treaty of Paris
41. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Lenin and Trotsky
Committee of Public Safety
Robert Koch
Soviet-Afghan War
42. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Petition of Rights
Austria-Hungary
Russian Revolution
X-Ray
43. 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.
Treaty of London
Frederick the Great
Adolf Eichmann
Public Health Act
44. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Andrew Carnegie
Emmeline Prankhurst
Gottfried Leibniz
Triple Alliance
45. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Panther
Edinburgh
Francois Voltaire
ultraroyalists
46. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Nikita Khrushchev
Denis Diderot
Cecil Rhodes.
Napoleon
47. 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
Absolutism
John Locke
Thermidorian Reaction
Allied Powers
48. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Count Cavour
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Catherine the Great
Emmanuel Sieyes
49. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Russo-Japanese War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Holy Alliance
50. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Atlantic Charter
Eastern Question
Edinburgh