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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Charles Albert
Edmund Burke
Napoleon
Theodore Herzl
2. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Warsaw Pact
Spanish-American War
Denis Diderot
John Stuart Mill
3. 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.
Panther
Giuseppe Mazzini
Labour Party
Berlin Conference
4. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Labour Party
fire at the Reichstag
Louis XIV
Kulaks
5. A military draft
Cecil Rhodes.
conscription
Thirty Years' War
William and Catherine Booth
6. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
Louis Philippe I
Georges Jacques Danton
Battle of the Bulge
7. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Charles Albert
Bishop Bossuet
Seven Year's War
Paracelsus
8. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Copernicus
Absolutism
French Revolution of 1848
9. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Dual Monarchy
Stalingrad
Marshall plan
Daimler and Benz
10. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Charles Albert
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Adolf Eichmann
Charles X
11. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
Volksgeist
Catherine the Great
X-Ray
fire at the Reichstag
12. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Catherine the Great
Dulce et Decorum Est
Austro-Piedmontese War
Gottfried Leibniz
13. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
First and Second International
Catherine the Great
John F. Kennedy
Petition of Rights
14. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
New Economic Policy
Nikita Khrushchev
Reform Bill
Treaty of Paris
15. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Absolutism
Dulce et Decorum Est
Austro-Piedmontese War
Central Powers.
16. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Crimean War
conscription
Soviet-Afghan War
17. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
vanguard
Mary Wollstonecraft
Adam Smith
Absolutism
18. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Giuseppe Mazzini
Adam Smith
Austro-Hungarian Empire
19. 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.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Austria-Hungary
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
20. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
Jacobins
Panther
Zimmerman telegram
21. Important ZIONIST.
ultraroyalists
Tories
Theodore Herzl
fire at the Reichstag
22. Discovered radium.
Copernicus
Triple Alliance
Nikita Khrushchev
Marie Curie
23. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Gottfried Leibniz
Volksgeist
Petition of Rights
24. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Kronstadt
Easter Rising
First and Second International
Heinrich Himmler
25. 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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26. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
Greek Revolution
William Gladstone
Warsaw Pact
27. 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.
Seven Weeks' War
Dual Monarchy
Petition of Rights
Herbert Spencer
28. 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
North German Confederation
Jean Paul Marat
Edinburgh
Dual Monarchy
29. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Lenin and Trotsky
Directory
Volksgeist
Thermidor
30. 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
Easter Rising
Franz Ferdinand
Edinburgh
31. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Seven Weeks' War
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Franz Ferdinand
32. 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
Enclosure movement
Frederick the Great
Oliver Cromwell
33. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Treaty of Frankfurt
Korean War
34. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Emmeline Prankhurst
English Civil War
Austro-Piedmontese War
35. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Petition of Rights
Free French
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Austro-Hungarian Empire
36. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vesalius
Triple Alliance
Ottoman empire dissolved
37. 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.
Joseph II
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Potsdam
38. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Georges Jacques Danton
Final Solution
Red Russians
Steel
39. 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.
Seven Year's War
Edmund Burke
Home Rule
Bradenburg-Prussia
40. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Vichy Regime
Korean War
Spanish-American War
41. 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.
Assembly of Notables
Jacobins
Charles Albert
Oliver Cromwell
42. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Factory Act
Kulaks
Emmeline Prankhurst
William Gladstone
43. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Blaise Pascal
Kronstadt
White Russians
Congress of Vienna
44. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Volksgeist
Whigs
Home Rule
Committee of Public Safety
45. 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
Franz Ferdinand
Committee of Public Safety
Isaac Newton
North German Confederation
46. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Boer War
Stalingrad
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thermidor
47. 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.
Boer War
French Revolution of 1848
soviets
Utilitarianism
48. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Black Shirt March
Vesalius
Korean War
49. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Treaty of Paris
Joseph II
Spanish Civil War
Franz Ferdinand
50. 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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