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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Daimler and Benz
ultraroyalists
Social Democratic Party
Battle of the Somme
2. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
X-Ray
Kronstadt
Charles Montesquieu
Home Rule
3. 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.
Black Shirt March
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Ferdinand VII
Benito Mussolini
4. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Copernicus
Oliver Cromwell
Fascist Party
5. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Robert Koch
Labour Party
Emmanuel Sieyes
6. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Warsaw Pact
Charles X
Boer War
Paracelsus
7. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
French Revolution of 1848
soviets
Edict of Nantes
Herbert Spencer
8. 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.
Frederick the Great
Lateran Pact
Rene Descartes
Emmanuel Sieyes
9. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Directory
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Franco-Prussian War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
10. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Petition of Rights
Robert Koch
Austro-Piedmontese War
Easter Rising
11. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Russian Revolution
Austria-Hungary
'Turnip' Townsend
Lusitania
12. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Stalingrad
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Leipzig
13. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
Stalingrad
Count Cavour
Congress of Vienna
14. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Frederick the Great
soviets
15. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
James Watt
Spanish-American War
Emelyn Pugachev
Daimler and Benz
16. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Treaty of Frankfurt
Seven Year's War
Charles Montesquieu
17. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Franz Ferdinand
Ptolemy
Russian Revolution
18. 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.
Nikita Khrushchev
Committee of Public Safety
Eastern Question
Francois Voltaire
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.
Battle of Adowa
Joseph II
William Gladstone
Bishop Bossuet
20. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Steel
Quadruple Alliance
Daimler and Benz
Battle of Adowa
21. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Stalingrad
Edict of Nantes
Dutch Republic
Factory Act
22. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Isaac Newton
Dual Monarchy
Rene Descartes
Sir Francis Bacon
23. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Public Health Act
Crimean War
Blaise Pascal
Treaty of London
24. 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
Marie Curie
Greek Revolution
Axis Powers
English Civil War
25. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treaty of Tilsit
Easter Rising
Factory Act
26. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Edward Gibbon
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Jean Paul Marat
Sir Francis Bacon
27. 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
Andrew Carnegie
Francois Voltaire
fire at the Reichstag
Greek Revolution
28. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Legislative Assembly
conscription
Frederick the Great
29. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Triple Entente
Andrew Carnegie
Vladimir Lenin
William and Catherine Booth
30. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Free French
Volksgeist
Giuseppe Mazzini
Berlin Conference
31. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Allied Powers
Louis Philippe I
Edmund Burke
Bradenburg-Prussia
32. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Utilitarianism
Treaty of Frankfurt
Stalingrad
33. (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
Spanish Civil War
White Russians
War of Austrian Succession
Brezhnev Doctrine
34. 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
John Locke
Peter the Great
Cecil Rhodes.
Triple Alliance
35. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Revolution from Above
Paris Commune
Edward Gibbon
36. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Paracelsus
Eastern Question
Labour Party
First and Second International
37. 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.
Catherine the Great
Gottfried Leibniz
Emelyn Pugachev
Girondins
38. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Quadruple Alliance
Whigs
Thermidorian Reaction
Revolution from Above
39. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Francois Voltaire
Joseph II
Quadruple Alliance
40. 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.
vanguard
Free French
Oliver Cromwell
Thermidorian Reaction
41. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Central Powers.
Louis XIV
Robert Koch
42. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
Isaac Newton
Ptolemy
Edward Gibbon
New Economic Policy
43. 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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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
Bishop Bossuet
Heinrich Himmler
Tories
Jean Paul Marat
45. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Red Russians
Battle of the Bulge
Thirty Years' War
Social Democratic Party
46. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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47. 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.'
Ottoman empire dissolved
Mary Wollstonecraft
Giuseppe Mazzini
Cecil Rhodes.
48. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Georges Jacques Danton
Social Democratic Party
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
49. 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
Legislative Assembly
Johannes Kepler
ancien regime
50. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
Benjamin Disraeli
Holy Alliance
Georges Jacques Danton