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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Important ZIONIST.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Theodore Herzl
Final Solution
Treaty of Tilsit
2. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Bishop Bossuet
Revisionists
3. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Emelyn Pugachev
Georges Jacques Danton
Legislative Assembly
Giueseppe Garibaldi
4. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Utilitarianism
Committee of Public Safety
Easter Rising
Vladimir Lenin
5. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Third International
Bishop Bossuet
Vichy Regime
Nazi
6. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Free French
Red Russians
Edict of Nantes
Ptolemy
7. 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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8. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Sir Francis Bacon
Bradenburg-Prussia
Count Cavour
Absolutism
9. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Edict of Nantes
Joseph Stalin
Lateran Pact
Quadruple Alliance
10. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Copernicus
Andrew Carnegie
Fascist Party
Ferdinand VII
11. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Tories
Zimmerman telegram
Warsaw Pact
Absolutism
12. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Transcendentalists
Herbert Spencer
Treaty of London
Holy Alliance
13. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Battle of the Somme
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Mary Wollstonecraft
14. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Gottfried Leibniz
Free French
Robert Koch
15. (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
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Vladimir Lenin
War of Austrian Succession
Frederick the Great
16. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Kulaks
Spanish Civil War
Edmund Burke
Battle of the Somme
17. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Berlin Conference
Emmanuel Sieyes
Black Shirt March
Kulaks
18. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Bishop Bossuet
Austria-Hungary
North German Confederation
19. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Battle of Adowa
Dual Monarchy
Home Rule
20. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
White Russians
Ptolemy
Triple Entente
Holy Alliance
21. 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.
Frederick the Great
Enigma
Dulce et Decorum Est
Francois Voltaire
22. 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.
John Locke
Jean Paul Marat
Treaty of Frankfurt
Petition of Rights
23. 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.
Zimmerman telegram
Warsaw Pact
Gottfried Leibniz
Oliver Cromwell
24. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Gottfried Leibniz
Emmanuel Sieyes
Seven Weeks' War
Directory
25. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
English Civil War
Louis XIV
Benjamin Disraeli
26. Founded the Salvation Army
vanguard
Benito Mussolini
Battle of Adowa
William and Catherine Booth
27. 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 X
Central Powers.
Allies
Secularization
28. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
The Glorious Revolution
conscription
Daimler and Benz
Kulaks
29. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Seven Weeks' War
North German Confederation
Daimler and Benz
Kaiser Wilhelm I
30. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Secularization
X-Ray
31. 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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Transcendentalists
Frederick the Great
English Civil War
32. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
soviets
Ptolemy
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
33. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
X-Ray
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Crimean War
34. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Labour Party
Louis XIV
Seven Weeks' War
Daimler and Benz
35. 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
Concert of Europe
Public Health Act
Red Russians
36. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Edict of Nantes
ancien regime
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Charles Albert
37. 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
Home Rule
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Free French
Austro-Hungarian Empire
38. 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.
French Revolution of 1848
Sergei Witte
Tories
X-Ray
39. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Final Solution
Volksgeist
Directory
40. Britain and America
Lusitania
Public Health Act
Quadruple Alliance
Allied Powers
41. 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.
New Economic Policy
Peter the Great
Francois Voltaire
Cecil Rhodes.
42. 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.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
Lateran Pact
Red Russians
43. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Francois Voltaire
Labour Party
44. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
John F. Kennedy
French Revolution of 1848
First and Second International
Franz Ferdinand
45. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Sergei Witte
Joseph Stalin
Andrew Carnegie
Free French
46. Soviet counterpart to NATO
James Watt
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Dual Monarchy
Warsaw Pact
47. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Lateran Pact
Triple Alliance
Black Shirt March
Battle of Adowa
48. 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.
Triple Alliance
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Adam Smith
War of Austrian Succession
49. 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).
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Volksgeist
Georges Jacques Danton
Robert Koch
50. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Thermidorian Reaction
Legislative Assembly
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Benjamin Disraeli