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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Russo-Japanese War
Bradenburg-Prussia
Edward Gibbon
Galileo Galilei
2. 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).
Paris Commune
Vichy Regime
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Georges Jacques Danton
3. 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.
Denis Diderot
Dual Monarchy
Oliver Cromwell
Edict of Nantes
4. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Congress of Vienna
Whigs
Isaac Newton
Potsdam
5. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Soviet-Afghan War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty of Frankfurt
6. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Atlantic Charter
Sergei Witte
Eastern Question
Vesalius
7. 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.
Allies
Revisionists
X-Ray
Bradenburg-Prussia
8. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Berlin Conference
Thermidorian Reaction
Paracelsus
Greek Revolution
9. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Final Solution
Labour Party
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Mazzini
10. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
North German Confederation
Holy Alliance
The Glorious Revolution
Easter Rising
11. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Revisionists
Marshall plan
Franco-Prussian War
Daimler and Benz
12. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Public Health Act
Edmund Burke
Brezhnev Doctrine
Axis Powers
13. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Daimler and Benz
Vesalius
Black Shirt March
14. 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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15. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Jacobins
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Eichmann
Allies
16. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
Zimmerman telegram
Gottfried Leibniz
Quadruple Alliance
Charles X
17. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Triple Entente
Dutch Republic
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Johannes Kepler
18. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Crimean War
Kulaks
Joseph II
French Revolution of 1848
19. 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.
Edward Gibbon
British East India Company
Adam Smith
ultraroyalists
20. 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
Austro-Piedmontese War
Dutch Republic
Isaac Newton
21. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Rene Descartes
Russian Revolution
Catherine the Great
Stalingrad
22. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Andrew Carnegie
Enigma
Quadruple Alliance
Kaiser Wilhelm I
23. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Robert Koch
Girondins
Catherine the Great
Cecil Rhodes.
24. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Edinburgh
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Franco-Prussian War
25. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Axis Powers
Charles Albert
ultraroyalists
Tories
26. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
North German Confederation
soviets
Allied Powers
ancien regime
27. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Franco-Prussian War
Leipzig
Boer War
Russian Revolution
28. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Adolf Eichmann
Battle of Adowa
Austro-Piedmontese War
Thermidor
29. 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.
William and Catherine Booth
The Glorious Revolution
John F. Kennedy
Lateran Pact
30. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Edict of Nantes
Chartist Movement
ancien regime
Theodore Herzl
31. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Assembly of Notables
Berlin Conference
Battle of the Somme
Marie Curie
32. 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
Reform Bill
The Glorious Revolution
Triple Alliance
conscription
33. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Jacobins
Adolf Eichmann
Sir Francis Bacon
Andrew Carnegie
34. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Factory Act
Battle of the Bulge
Labour Party
Louis XIV
35. 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.'
Public Health Act
Directory
Mary Wollstonecraft
Johannes Kepler
36. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Count Cavour
Oliver Cromwell
Charles Montesquieu
37. 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.
John Rockefeller
Chartist Movement
vanguard
Tories
38. A military draft
Mary Wollstonecraft
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Factory Act
conscription
39. 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
War of Austrian Succession
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Marshall plan
40. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Edict of Nantes
Girondins
soviets
41. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Marie Curie
Free French
Mary Wollstonecraft
42. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Social Democratic Party
Chartist Movement
Robert Koch
Gottfried Leibniz
43. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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44. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Battle of the Somme
Final Solution
Charles Montesquieu
Boer War
45. 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.
New Economic Policy
Adolf Eichmann
Spanish-American War
Holy Alliance
46. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
English Civil War
Triple Entente
Girondins
Revisionists
47. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Napoleon
conscription
Blaise Pascal
48. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Transcendentalists
Heinrich Himmler
Emmanuel Sieyes
White Russians
49. Britain and America
Allied Powers
Johannes Kepler
Assembly of Notables
Triple Alliance
50. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Korean War
Emmeline Prankhurst
First and Second International
Dutch Republic