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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Charles Montesquieu
Seven Year's War
Lusitania
Free French
2. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Treaty of London
Eastern Question
X-Ray
Black Shirt March
3. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Assembly of Notables
Zimmerman telegram
Andrew Carnegie
The War of Jenkin's Ear
4. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Lateran Pact
Paracelsus
Theodore Herzl
5. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
'Turnip' Townsend
Free French
Kulaks
The Glorious Revolution
6. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
William Gladstone
William and Catherine Booth
Heinrich Himmler
7. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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8. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Battle of Adowa
Sir Francis Bacon
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lateran Pact
9. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Bishop Bossuet
Dutch Republic
Stalingrad
Austro-Piedmontese War
10. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Leipzig
Zimmerman telegram
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
11. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Franco-Prussian War
Rene Descartes
Louis XIV
Spanish Civil War
12. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Heinrich Himmler
Sir Francis Bacon
Black Shirt March
Free French
13. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Holy Alliance
John Stuart Mill
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
14. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
Joseph Stalin
Enigma
Vesalius
15. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
conscription
Spanish-American War
Adolf Eichmann
16. 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).
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Concert of Europe
Brezhnev Doctrine
Georges Jacques Danton
17. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Stalingrad
Central Powers.
Kronstadt
Treaty of London
18. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Korean War
Russian Revolution
Emmanuel Sieyes
Brezhnev Doctrine
19. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Assembly of Notables
Dual Monarchy
Charles X
Volksgeist
20. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Gottfried Leibniz
Lenin and Trotsky
John F. Kennedy
Fascist Party
21. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
William and Catherine Booth
Crimean War
22. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Potsdam
Boer War
James Watt
Tories
23. 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
Allies
Francois Voltaire
Herbert Spencer
Bradenburg-Prussia
24. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Joseph Stalin
Lusitania
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
Charles Montesquieu
Copernicus
Robert Koch
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
26. 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.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Soviet-Afghan War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Blaise Pascal
27. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Ottoman empire dissolved
Ptolemy
Charles Montesquieu
Free French
28. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nikita Khrushchev
New Economic Policy
Benito Mussolini
29. 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
English Civil War
The Glorious Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Legislative Assembly
30. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Joseph II
Benito Mussolini
Battle of the Bulge
Public Health Act
31. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Treaty of Frankfurt
Triple Entente
Adolf Eichmann
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.
Thermidorian Reaction
Black Shirt March
William and Catherine Booth
Declaration of Pillnitz
33. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of Adowa
Enigma
Revisionists
Battle of the Somme
34. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Joseph II
Directory
35. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Seven Year's War
Leipzig
Napoleon
Johannes Kepler
36. 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.
Reform Bill
Louis Philippe I
Cecil Rhodes.
Mary Wollstonecraft
37. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
War of Austrian Succession
Leipzig
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Russian Revolution
38. 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.'
Atlantic Charter
Joseph Stalin
'Turnip' Townsend
Bishop Bossuet
39. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Assembly of Notables
Steel
ancien regime
Easter Rising
40. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Greek Revolution
Home Rule
Declaration of Pillnitz
Concert of Europe
41. Founded the Salvation Army
Jean Paul Marat
Gottfried Leibniz
Central Powers.
William and Catherine Booth
42. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Herbert Spencer
James Watt
fire at the Reichstag
Dulce et Decorum Est
43. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Franz Ferdinand
John Locke
Spanish Civil War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
44. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Public Health Act
Louis Philippe I
Treaty of Paris
Lenin and Trotsky
45. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Volksgeist
Denis Diderot
Spanish-American War
46. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Sir Francis Bacon
vanguard
Crimean War
Oliver Cromwell
47. 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.
Joseph II
Spanish Civil War
Whigs
Austro-Piedmontese War
48. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Crimean War
Stalingrad
Peter the Great
Reform Bill
49. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
ultraroyalists
Panther
Whigs
Revolution from Above
50. 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.
Labour Party
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Jacobins
Catherine the Great