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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Committee of Public Safety
Allied Powers
Vladimir Lenin
Spanish-American War
2. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Vladimir Lenin
Isaac Newton
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Spanish-American War
3. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Potsdam
Adolf Eichmann
English Civil War
4. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Edinburgh
Jacobins
Stalingrad
Treaty of Frankfurt
5. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Johannes Kepler
Treaty of London
Korean War
Gottfried Leibniz
6. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Georges Jacques Danton
Directory
Panther
7. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Soviet-Afghan War
Emelyn Pugachev
conscription
First and Second International
8. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Legislative Assembly
Paracelsus
Jacobins
Quadruple Alliance
9. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
New Economic Policy
Herbert Spencer
Kronstadt
10. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Thermidor
Whigs
Emmeline Prankhurst
Continental System
11. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Battle of the Somme
Stalingrad
Warsaw Pact
12. 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.
Jacobins
Final Solution
French Revolution of 1848
Crimean War
13. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revisionists
Berlin Conference
The Glorious Revolution
14. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Atlantic Charter
Treaty of London
Nazi
15. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Paracelsus
conscription
Charles Albert
Benjamin Disraeli
16. A military draft
Denis Diderot
Fabian Society
Nazi
conscription
17. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Vladimir Lenin
Rene Descartes
Paracelsus
18. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Oliver Cromwell
Emmeline Prankhurst
Russo-Japanese War
Allied Powers
19. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Napoleon
Revolution from Above
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Utilitarianism
20. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Count Cavour
Fascist Party
Frederick the Great
Edict of Nantes
21. 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
Russian Revolution
Social Democratic Party
Andrew Carnegie
Potsdam
22. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Allied Powers
Marshall plan
Gottfried Leibniz
Kaiser Wilhelm I
23. 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.
Lateran Pact
Thomas Malthus
Labour Party
Reform Bill
24. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Public Health Act
Chartist Movement
Fabian Society
Andrew Carnegie
25. 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
Emelyn Pugachev
Potsdam
White Russians
Thermidorian Reaction
26. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Jean Paul Marat
Seven Year's War
John Locke
Home Rule
27. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Jean Paul Marat
Continental System
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Dutch Republic
28. 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
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Tories
Copernicus
Heinrich Himmler
29. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Blaise Pascal
Bishop Bossuet
Emmanuel Sieyes
30. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Edward Gibbon
Louis XIV
Emmanuel Sieyes
31. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
32. 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.
Napoleon
Charles X
Boer War
Bradenburg-Prussia
33. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Cecil Rhodes.
Nazi
Korean War
34. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Warsaw Pact
Theodore Herzl
Leipzig
Dulce et Decorum Est
35. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Heinrich Himmler
Legislative Assembly
Enigma
36. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Herbert Spencer
Vesalius
Jean Paul Marat
Oliver Cromwell
37. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Adam Smith
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Tories
Soviet-Afghan War
38. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Dual Monarchy
Atlantic Charter
X-Ray
Central Powers.
39. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Enigma
Revisionists
Korean War
40. 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.
Volksgeist
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Giuseppe Mazzini
Peter the Great
41. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Lusitania
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Panther
42. 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.'
First and Second International
Treaty of Paris
Bishop Bossuet
'Turnip' Townsend
43. 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).
Thirty Years' War
Benito Mussolini
British East India Company
Georges Jacques Danton
44. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Assembly of Notables
Robert Koch
Absolutism
William Gladstone
45. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Korean War
Thermidorian Reaction
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Dutch Republic
46. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Berlin Conference
Boer War
Declaration of Pillnitz
47. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Reform Bill
Franz Ferdinand
Catherine the Great
Battle of the Somme
48. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Emelyn Pugachev
Secularization
Catherine the Great
Seven Weeks' War
49. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Thomas Malthus
Mary Wollstonecraft
Gottfried Leibniz
Benito Mussolini
50. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Thirty Years' War
Galileo Galilei
Nazi
Soviet-Afghan War