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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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
William and Catherine Booth
White Russians
Copernicus
Bradenburg-Prussia
2. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Korean War
Panther
Dutch Republic
3. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Continental System
Transcendentalists
soviets
White Russians
4. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Concert of Europe
Fascist Party
5. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Leipzig
Jacobins
John F. Kennedy
Benito Mussolini
6. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Axis Powers
First and Second International
Transcendentalists
Home Rule
7. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Jean Paul Marat
Directory
Sir Francis Bacon
8. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Charles X
Blaise Pascal
Edict of Nantes
Third International
9. 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
Frederick the Great
Robert Koch
Jean Paul Marat
Dual Monarchy
10. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Treaty of Tilsit
Seven Year's War
New Economic Policy
Paris Commune
11. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Marie Curie
Russo-Japanese War
Kulaks
Sir Francis Bacon
12. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Central Powers.
Spanish-American War
Revisionists
13. English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal GRAVITY - a theory about the nature of light - and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation - presented in Principia Mathematica (1
Enigma
Isaac Newton
Crimean War
Concert of Europe
14. 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.
Greek Revolution
Cecil Rhodes.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Charles X
15. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Greek Revolution
Edward Gibbon
Free French
16. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Ferdinand VII
James Watt
Girondins
Secularization
17. 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.
Revisionists
Treaty of Tilsit
Central Powers.
Lateran Pact
18. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Public Health Act
Vladimir Lenin
Secularization
War of Austrian Succession
19. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Frederick the Great
Spanish-American War
John Locke
Home Rule
20. 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
Dutch Republic
Seven Year's War
Herbert Spencer
John Stuart Mill
21. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
James Watt
Fabian Society
Georges Jacques Danton
Edmund Burke
22. 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.
Enigma
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Legislative Assembly
Franco-Prussian War
23. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Enclosure movement
Treaty of Tilsit
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Eastern Question
24. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Napoleon
Dulce et Decorum Est
Easter Rising
25. 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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26. Discovered radium.
Battle of the Somme
Marie Curie
Red Russians
Secularization
27. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Revolution from Above
Seven Weeks' War
Gottfried Leibniz
Committee of Public Safety
28. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Leipzig
Thermidor
Potsdam
Franz Ferdinand
29. 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.
Joseph II
Adam Smith
Adolf Eichmann
John Stuart Mill
30. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Berlin Conference
'Turnip' Townsend
Jacobins
Giuseppe Mazzini
31. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Secularization
Emmeline Prankhurst
Emelyn Pugachev
Whigs
32. British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women's equality with men - even in voting - in her 1792 'Vindication of the Rights of Women.'
Frederick the Great
Mary Wollstonecraft
Committee of Public Safety
British East India Company
33. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Andrew Carnegie
Revolution from Above
Seven Year's War
Charles X
34. 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.
Whigs
North German Confederation
Nikita Khrushchev
Edict of Nantes
35. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Andrew Carnegie
Count Cavour
Lenin and Trotsky
36. 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.
Fabian Society
Battle of the Somme
British East India Company
Benjamin Disraeli
37. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Benito Mussolini
Thermidor
Thomas Malthus
Lenin and Trotsky
38. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Sir Francis Bacon
North German Confederation
Emelyn Pugachev
James Watt
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.
Stalingrad
Reform Bill
Ptolemy
Vladimir Lenin
40. 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
Catherine the Great
Emelyn Pugachev
Emmanuel Sieyes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
41. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whigs
Charles Albert
Heinrich Himmler
42. 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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43. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Allied Powers
Franco-Prussian War
Seven Year's War
Secularization
44. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Concert of Europe
Johannes Kepler
Ferdinand VII
Easter Rising
45. First ruled by the Great Elector - Frederick William. Formed after Thirty Year's War. Prussia's nobles - JUNKERS - were given exemption from taxes to give loyalty to the Fredericks. Built an enormous army. Would become Germany.
Bishop Bossuet
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bradenburg-Prussia
Labour Party
46. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Directory
Oliver Cromwell
John Stuart Mill
James Watt
47. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Soviet-Afghan War
Eastern Question
Herbert Spencer
Revisionists
48. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Congress of Vienna
Marshall plan
Revolution from Above
Franco-Prussian War
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.
Joseph II
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Leipzig
50. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Adam Smith
Russo-Japanese War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
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