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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Revisionists
Treaty of Tilsit
Louis XIV
Free French
2. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Franco-Prussian War
Seven Weeks' War
Thermidor
3. 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.
Crimean War
Adam Smith
Petition of Rights
Thirty Years' War
4. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Jacobins
Social Democratic Party
The Glorious Revolution
5. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Adam Smith
Daimler and Benz
Battle of the Somme
6. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Berlin Conference
Vladimir Lenin
Committee of Public Safety
Allies
7. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Theodore Herzl
Herbert Spencer
Final Solution
First and Second International
8. Discovered radium.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Bishop Bossuet
Final Solution
Marie Curie
9. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Battle of the Somme
Louis XIV
Kulaks
10. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Absolutism
Louis Philippe I
Legislative Assembly
Nikita Khrushchev
11. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Lateran Pact
soviets
Easter Rising
12. Founded the Salvation Army
William and Catherine Booth
Reform Bill
Directory
Sir Francis Bacon
13. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Fascist Party
Louis XIV
Joseph Stalin
Axis Powers
14. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Francois Voltaire
vanguard
Enigma
15. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Zimmerman telegram
Emelyn Pugachev
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
War of Austrian Succession
X-Ray
Enigma
vanguard
17. 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.
Axis Powers
Thermidorian Reaction
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Blaise Pascal
18. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Austro-Piedmontese War
Secularization
Atlantic Charter
19. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Edict of Nantes
Potsdam
Stalingrad
20. 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
James Watt
Triple Entente
Petition of Rights
21. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Home Rule
Axis Powers
Red Russians
Leipzig
22. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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23. 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).
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Revolution from Above
Georges Jacques Danton
Triple Entente
24. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Revolution from Above
Thomas Malthus
Johannes Kepler
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
25. 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
Spanish-American War
Galileo Galilei
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Boer War
26. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
British East India Company
Secularization
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Nazi
27. 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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28. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Franz Ferdinand
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of London
29. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Seven Year's War
Red Russians
Charles Montesquieu
Whigs
30. A military draft
John Locke
Public Health Act
The Glorious Revolution
conscription
31. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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32. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Axis Powers
Factory Act
Panther
33. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Bishop Bossuet
Dutch Republic
Mary Wollstonecraft
34. 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
Herbert Spencer
Andrew Carnegie
Dual Monarchy
35. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Daimler and Benz
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ptolemy
Paris Commune
36. 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
English Civil War
Potsdam
Johannes Kepler
North German Confederation
37. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Utilitarianism
Vladimir Lenin
Absolutism
38. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
X-Ray
Treaty of Tilsit
Adolf Eichmann
39. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Charles Albert
Benito Mussolini
Whigs
40. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
Ferdinand VII
Frederick the Great
Labour Party
Adam Smith
41. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Russo-Japanese War
Dulce et Decorum Est
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Disraeli
42. 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.
Battle of Adowa
Nikita Khrushchev
Enclosure movement
Social Democratic Party
43. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Triple Alliance
Robert Koch
Herbert Spencer
44. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
James Watt
Thermidor
Fabian Society
Leipzig
45. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Louis XIV
Committee of Public Safety
Johannes Kepler
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
46. 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
Zimmerman telegram
Thermidor
Ptolemy
Potsdam
47. Extermination of the Jews.
Final Solution
John F. Kennedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vichy Regime
48. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Napoleon
Georges Jacques Danton
War of Austrian Succession
49. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Nazi
Johannes Kepler
Herbert Spencer
Joseph II
50. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Frederick the Great
Charles Albert
Giueseppe Garibaldi