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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Greek Revolution
Transcendentalists
Catherine the Great
Black Shirt March
2. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Battle of the Somme
Committee of Public Safety
British East India Company
Emmeline Prankhurst
3. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Blaise Pascal
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Glorious Revolution
Secularization
4. A military draft
Committee of Public Safety
Secularization
conscription
Andrew Carnegie
5. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Treaty of Frankfurt
Andrew Carnegie
Vichy Regime
6. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Catherine the Great
Isaac Newton
Heinrich Himmler
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
7. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Legislative Assembly
Lateran Pact
Lenin and Trotsky
Paracelsus
8. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
Boer War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Fascist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
9. 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.
Lateran Pact
Concert of Europe
Home Rule
Russo-Japanese War
10. 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.
Edward Gibbon
Edinburgh
Panther
Utilitarianism
11. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
ancien regime
Dual Monarchy
Revisionists
12. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Continental System
Declaration of Pillnitz
Third International
Edward Gibbon
13. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Catherine the Great
Continental System
Jean Paul Marat
vanguard
14. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
James Watt
Battle of the Somme
Labour Party
Emelyn Pugachev
15. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Allied Powers
Triple Entente
Battle of the Somme
Rene Descartes
16. 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.
Russian Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Louis Philippe I
Thirty Years' War
17. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Bradenburg-Prussia
Public Health Act
James Watt
18. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Holy Alliance
Public Health Act
Seven Weeks' War
Battle of the Bulge
19. 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
Jean Paul Marat
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of London
Thermidor
20. 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.
Vesalius
Enclosure movement
Oliver Cromwell
Tories
21. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Revisionists
William Gladstone
Edict of Nantes
Spanish-American War
22. 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.
Committee of Public Safety
Andrew Carnegie
Treaty of Tilsit
Continental System
23. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Franz Ferdinand
Jean Paul Marat
Charles X
Leipzig
24. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Isaac Newton
Congress of Vienna
Spanish Civil War
Central Powers.
25. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
James Watt
ultraroyalists
Legislative Assembly
26. 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.
Marie Curie
Third International
Cecil Rhodes.
conscription
27. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Daimler and Benz
Paris Commune
Benito Mussolini
Allied Powers
28. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Thirty Years' War
Crimean War
New Economic Policy
Triple Alliance
29. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Seven Year's War
Oliver Cromwell
Free French
First and Second International
30. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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31. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Seven Year's War
Concert of Europe
Declaration of Pillnitz
32. 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).
First and Second International
Russian Revolution
Georges Jacques Danton
John Rockefeller
33. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Triple Entente
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Enclosure movement
34. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Enclosure movement
Berlin Conference
Russian Revolution
Joseph Stalin
35. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Triple Entente
Mary Wollstonecraft
Franz Ferdinand
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
36. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lusitania
Korean War
Emelyn Pugachev
37. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Treaty of Paris
Ptolemy
Dutch Republic
Paracelsus
38. 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.
Central Powers.
Spanish-American War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Girondins
39. 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.
Napoleon
Reform Bill
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Crimean War
40. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Assembly of Notables
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
North German Confederation
41. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Steel
Enigma
Mary Wollstonecraft
Warsaw Pact
42. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Crimean War
Treaty of Frankfurt
Treaty of Paris
Friedrich Nietzsche
43. 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
Francois Voltaire
Quadruple Alliance
Charles Albert
Spanish-American War
44. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Theodore Herzl
Mary Wollstonecraft
Enigma
Blaise Pascal
45. 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.
Louis XIV
Nikita Khrushchev
Transcendentalists
Charles Albert
46. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
ancien regime
Revisionists
Berlin Conference
Vladimir Lenin
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
Assembly of Notables
Paracelsus
Thermidorian Reaction
Paris Commune
48. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Greek Revolution
Atlantic Charter
Austria-Hungary
The War of Jenkin's Ear
49. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Blaise Pascal
Battle of the Somme
Adolf Eichmann
Giueseppe Garibaldi
50. 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
Directory
The Glorious Revolution
Quadruple Alliance
Dulce et Decorum Est