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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Thomas Malthus
Paris Commune
Francois Voltaire
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
2. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Franz Ferdinand
Soviet-Afghan War
William Gladstone
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Gottfried Leibniz
Tories
Fascist Party
Labour Party
4. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Labour Party
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Concert of Europe
fire at the Reichstag
5. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Edward Gibbon
Allied Powers
Nikita Khrushchev
6. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Soviet-Afghan War
Boer War
French Revolution of 1848
Final Solution
7. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Free French
Austria-Hungary
Giueseppe Garibaldi
8. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Louis Philippe I
Jacobins
Boer War
9. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Edict of Nantes
Louis Philippe I
Giuseppe Mazzini
10. 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.
Catherine the Great
Blaise Pascal
Triple Alliance
Final Solution
11. 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.
Free French
Black Shirt March
Lateran Pact
John Stuart Mill
12. 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
Sergei Witte
British East India Company
Home Rule
Zimmerman telegram
13. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Revisionists
Adam Smith
Seven Weeks' War
Declaration of Pillnitz
14. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Bradenburg-Prussia
Kronstadt
John F. Kennedy
15. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Stalingrad
William Gladstone
Warsaw Pact
Denis Diderot
16. 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.
Steel
Transcendentalists
Daimler and Benz
Johannes Kepler
17. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Volksgeist
Bishop Bossuet
Vichy Regime
18. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Benito Mussolini
Paracelsus
White Russians
Austro-Hungarian Empire
19. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Eastern Question
Legislative Assembly
British East India Company
Soviet-Afghan War
20. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Andrew Carnegie
Spanish Civil War
Dutch Republic
Charles Albert
21. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Chartist Movement
Whigs
Catherine the Great
Edict of Nantes
22. 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
Copernicus
Congress of Vienna
Brezhnev Doctrine
Nazi
23. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
James Watt
Continental System
Easter Rising
24. 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
John Locke
Home Rule
Atlantic Charter
Petition of Rights
25. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Austria-Hungary
Herbert Spencer
Kronstadt
26. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Easter Rising
John Rockefeller
Warsaw Pact
English Civil War
27. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Assembly of Notables
White Russians
Gottfried Leibniz
Benjamin Disraeli
28. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Legislative Assembly
John Stuart Mill
William and Catherine Booth
29. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Frederick the Great
Joseph Stalin
Lusitania
Greek Revolution
30. 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.
Catherine the Great
Seven Weeks' War
Black Shirt March
Napoleon
31. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Joseph Stalin
Eastern Question
Whigs
Secularization
32. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Tilsit
Petition of Rights
Atlantic Charter
33. 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)
Nazi
Benito Mussolini
Eastern Question
Stalingrad
34. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Thirty Years' War
Johannes Kepler
Absolutism
Frederick the Great
35. 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.
North German Confederation
Home Rule
Franco-Prussian War
Cecil Rhodes.
36. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Enigma
Warsaw Pact
Easter Rising
Treaty of Tilsit
37. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Crimean War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enclosure movement
38. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Galileo Galilei
Secularization
Petition of Rights
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
39. 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.
Factory Act
Lenin and Trotsky
Utilitarianism
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
40. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Korean War
Russo-Japanese War
Spanish Civil War
41. 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.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Black Shirt March
Vladimir Lenin
Napoleon
42. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Adolf Eichmann
Eastern Question
John Rockefeller
43. Discovered radium.
Atlantic Charter
Rene Descartes
Marie Curie
John F. Kennedy
44. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Kulaks
Edict of Nantes
Kaiser Wilhelm I
X-Ray
45. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Red Russians
Whigs
Sir Francis Bacon
Leipzig
46. Founded the Salvation Army
Quadruple Alliance
William and Catherine Booth
Jacobins
Charles X
47. 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.
Catherine the Great
Francois Voltaire
Triple Entente
Transcendentalists
48. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Johannes Kepler
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Edmund Burke
Russo-Japanese War
49. 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.
Tories
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Thermidorian Reaction
John Stuart Mill
50. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
William Gladstone
Utilitarianism
Treaty of Tilsit
Dulce et Decorum Est