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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Battle of the Bulge
Ottoman empire dissolved
Frederick the Great
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.
Andrew Carnegie
Transcendentalists
Edinburgh
Marie Curie
3. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Treaty of London
Count Cavour
Isaac Newton
4. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
English Civil War
Triple Entente
Crimean War
Edward Gibbon
5. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
Leipzig
Seven Weeks' War
Gottfried Leibniz
6. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Chartist Movement
Austro-Piedmontese War
Mary Wollstonecraft
7. 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
Oliver Cromwell
Russian Revolution
Cecil Rhodes.
8. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Lateran Pact
Benjamin Disraeli
Giuseppe Mazzini
Red Russians
9. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
Petition of Rights
French Revolution of 1848
Count Cavour
British East India Company
10. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Theodore Herzl
Edmund Burke
Rene Descartes
Leipzig
11. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Allies
James Watt
Vladimir Lenin
Battle of the Bulge
12. 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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13. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Edict of Nantes
Central Powers.
William and Catherine Booth
14. Soviet counterpart to NATO
ancien regime
Bishop Bossuet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Warsaw Pact
15. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Volksgeist
Triple Entente
Enclosure movement
Emmanuel Sieyes
16. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Benito Mussolini
Whigs
Marshall plan
Charles Montesquieu
17. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Triple Entente
Russian Revolution
Continental System
Stalingrad
18. 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.
Theodore Herzl
Reform Bill
Franz Ferdinand
Lusitania
19. 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.
Edict of Nantes
Herbert Spencer
Andrew Carnegie
Petition of Rights
20. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Joseph II
Jacobins
Sir Francis Bacon
ultraroyalists
21. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Home Rule
Boer War
Secularization
22. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Eastern Question
Emmeline Prankhurst
Axis Powers
New Economic Policy
23. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Blaise Pascal
Vladimir Lenin
New Economic Policy
Nikita Khrushchev
24. 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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25. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Axis Powers
Triple Alliance
Third International
26. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Andrew Carnegie
Warsaw Pact
Thomas Malthus
27. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Concert of Europe
William Gladstone
Johannes Kepler
28. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Franco-Prussian War
English Civil War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Paracelsus
29. 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.
Committee of Public Safety
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Cecil Rhodes.
Leipzig
30. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Austria-Hungary
Greek Revolution
Edward Gibbon
Herbert Spencer
31. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Easter Rising
Steel
Vesalius
32. 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
Enigma
Charles Montesquieu
Spanish-American War
33. 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
Galileo Galilei
Utilitarianism
Vesalius
Copernicus
34. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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35. 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
Utilitarianism
Quadruple Alliance
Ptolemy
36. 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
Thermidor
Girondins
John Locke
Peter the Great
37. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
War of Austrian Succession
Edinburgh
Leipzig
38. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Russian Revolution
Social Democratic Party
Transcendentalists
39. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Nikita Khrushchev
Napoleon
Central Powers.
Marshall plan
40. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Johannes Kepler
Dutch Republic
Austro-Piedmontese War
vanguard
41. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Final Solution
Central Powers.
Thermidor
James Watt
42. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Isaac Newton
Marshall plan
Utilitarianism
Andrew Carnegie
43. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Holy Alliance
Blaise Pascal
White Russians
Assembly of Notables
44. 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.
Treaty of Paris
Louis XIV
Edward Gibbon
Edinburgh
45. 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.
Marie Curie
Louis Philippe I
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Russian Revolution
46. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Leipzig
Sergei Witte
Emelyn Pugachev
Thirty Years' War
47. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Treaty of Tilsit
soviets
Catherine the Great
48. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Allied Powers
Spanish-American War
ancien regime
French Revolution of 1848
49. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Eastern Question
Treaty of Tilsit
Allied Powers
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
50. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
British East India Company
Ottoman empire dissolved
Robert Koch
Atlantic Charter