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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Herbert Spencer
Assembly of Notables
Lusitania
Potsdam
2. 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.
Treaty of London
Boer War
Adam Smith
Giueseppe Garibaldi
3. 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)
Georges Jacques Danton
Benito Mussolini
Sir Francis Bacon
soviets
4. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
British East India Company
ancien regime
Thirty Years' War
White Russians
5. 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).
Marshall plan
Theodore Herzl
Georges Jacques Danton
Daimler and Benz
6. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Austro-Piedmontese War
Isaac Newton
'Turnip' Townsend
7. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Chartist Movement
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Francois Voltaire
Home Rule
8. 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.
Daimler and Benz
Herbert Spencer
Treaty of Tilsit
New Economic Policy
9. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Russo-Japanese War
Labour Party
Absolutism
Panther
10. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Battle of the Somme
John Rockefeller
Reform Bill
Petition of Rights
11. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Francois Voltaire
Allied Powers
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
12. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Allied Powers
Friedrich Nietzsche
Factory Act
13. Civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I. Forces of Parliament called 'ROUNDHEADS'. Forces of the King called 'CAVALIERS'. Roundheads won - Puritans (Cromwell's religion) purged Presbyterians from Parliament
Brezhnev Doctrine
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
English Civil War
Paris Commune
14. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Home Rule
Charles X
Battle of Adowa
Petition of Rights
15. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Holy Alliance
fire at the Reichstag
Jean Paul Marat
Labour Party
16. 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.
Reform Bill
The Glorious Revolution
Catherine the Great
British East India Company
17. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Marie Curie
Central Powers.
Blaise Pascal
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
18. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Count Cavour
Emelyn Pugachev
Axis Powers
Benjamin Disraeli
19. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Seven Weeks' War
Edinburgh
North German Confederation
Johannes Kepler
20. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Benjamin Disraeli
Dulce et Decorum Est
Isaac Newton
John Stuart Mill
21. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Vichy Regime
Whigs
Charles Montesquieu
Daimler and Benz
22. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Seven Weeks' War
Gottfried Leibniz
Bishop Bossuet
Sergei Witte
23. 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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Crimean War
Treaty of Paris
Joseph Stalin
24. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
William and Catherine Booth
Paracelsus
Joseph Stalin
Social Democratic Party
25. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Ptolemy
Lenin and Trotsky
Revolution from Above
Russo-Japanese War
26. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Treaty of Tilsit
Labour Party
Revolution from Above
Charles X
27. 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.'
Seven Year's War
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lateran Pact
Catherine the Great
28. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Edinburgh
Francois Voltaire
Holy Alliance
29. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Leipzig
Dual Monarchy
Spanish-American War
Declaration of Pillnitz
30. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Girondins
Count Cavour
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rene Descartes
31. 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
Fabian Society
John Locke
ultraroyalists
Dulce et Decorum Est
32. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Chartist Movement
Austro-Piedmontese War
Quadruple Alliance
Peter the Great
33. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Enclosure movement
Assembly of Notables
Absolutism
34. 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.
Napoleon
Joseph II
Marie Curie
Oliver Cromwell
35. A military draft
Kulaks
Battle of Adowa
conscription
Congress of Vienna
36. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Seven Year's War
ancien regime
Transcendentalists
37. 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.
Napoleon
War of Austrian Succession
Louis XIV
Edmund Burke
38. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Emmeline Prankhurst
Frederick the Great
War of Austrian Succession
Treaty of London
39. 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.
Enclosure movement
Edinburgh
William and Catherine Booth
Nikita Khrushchev
40. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
conscription
Isaac Newton
Brezhnev Doctrine
Gottfried Leibniz
41. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Russian Revolution
Fabian Society
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Lusitania
42. 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.
Ptolemy
ultraroyalists
Assembly of Notables
Vladimir Lenin
43. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Catherine the Great
Lenin and Trotsky
Austro-Piedmontese War
44. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Chartist Movement
John F. Kennedy
Vladimir Lenin
Sergei Witte
45. 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.
Tories
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
James Watt
Charles Albert
46. 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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47. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Legislative Assembly
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Assembly of Notables
48. 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.
Paris Commune
Battle of the Bulge
James Watt
Galileo Galilei
49. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
John Rockefeller
Battle of the Bulge
Herbert Spencer
Treaty of London
50. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Public Health Act
Committee of Public Safety
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Triple Alliance