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CLEP Western Civilization II

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1. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.






2. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.






3. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)






7. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.






8. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.






9. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.






10. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.






11. 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.






12. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.






13. Germany - Italy - and Japan






14. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.






15. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.






16. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. Greater freedom for Ireland.






20. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.






21. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.






22. 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.






23. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.






24. 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.






25. 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.






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.






27. Soviet counterpart to NATO






28. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.






29. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.






30. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.






31. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.






32. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.






33. 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






34. (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






35. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.






36. 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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37. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.






38. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.






39. 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.'






40. 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






41. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.






46. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'






47. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs

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48. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.






49. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king






50. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.