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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Enigma
Ottoman empire dissolved
Reform Bill
Joseph Stalin
2. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Allied Powers
Ptolemy
Triple Entente
3. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Daimler and Benz
conscription
Heinrich Himmler
4. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
William Gladstone
Secularization
Concert of Europe
5. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Denis Diderot
New Economic Policy
Fabian Society
6. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Zimmerman telegram
Denis Diderot
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marshall plan
7. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Bishop Bossuet
Emelyn Pugachev
Dual Monarchy
Adam Smith
8. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Lateran Pact
ultraroyalists
Home Rule
Triple Entente
9. Italian POLITICAL party created by Benito Mussolini during World War I. It emphasized aggressive nationalism and was Mussolini's instrument for the creation of a dictatorship in Italy. Didn't believe in democracy.
English Civil War
Treaty of Paris
Georges Jacques Danton
Fascist Party
10. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Ferdinand VII
Revolution from Above
Peter the Great
11. (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
Social Democratic Party
War of Austrian Succession
Secularization
Blaise Pascal
12. Fascist dictator of ITALY (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia - joined Germany in the Axis pact - and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.Called IL DUCE (the leader)
Assembly of Notables
Benito Mussolini
vanguard
Absolutism
13. 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
Directory
Jean Paul Marat
Thomas Malthus
Daimler and Benz
14. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Potsdam
William Gladstone
Revisionists
William and Catherine Booth
15. 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.
Louis Philippe I
Congress of Vienna
Berlin Conference
War of Austrian Succession
16. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Vesalius
Enigma
Utilitarianism
Brezhnev Doctrine
17. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Allies
Nikita Khrushchev
James Watt
Triple Entente
18. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Austria-Hungary
Louis XIV
Eastern Question
Paris Commune
19. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Utilitarianism
Copernicus
Russo-Japanese War
20. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Charles X
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Tilsit
21. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edward Gibbon
Paris Commune
Treaty of Tilsit
22. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Crimean War
Enigma
Assembly of Notables
Johannes Kepler
23. 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.
Axis Powers
Girondins
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Petition of Rights
24. 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.
Red Russians
Thermidorian Reaction
Austria-Hungary
Black Shirt March
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.
Enigma
Louis XIV
Count Cavour
Emelyn Pugachev
26. 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
Petition of Rights
Potsdam
Vladimir Lenin
Red Russians
27. 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.
Allies
Fabian Society
British East India Company
Home Rule
28. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
John F. Kennedy
Revisionists
Boer War
French Revolution of 1848
29. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Oliver Cromwell
Treaty of Paris
Russian Revolution
30. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lenin and Trotsky
Factory Act
Adam Smith
31. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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32. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
The Glorious Revolution
Holy Alliance
John F. Kennedy
Franco-Prussian War
33. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Thirty Years' War
Girondins
Franco-Prussian War
Factory Act
34. Extermination of the Jews.
Edward Gibbon
Final Solution
Fabian Society
Adolf Eichmann
35. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
fire at the Reichstag
Andrew Carnegie
Lateran Pact
36. 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.
Jacobins
New Economic Policy
Catherine the Great
ultraroyalists
37. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Utilitarianism
Final Solution
conscription
soviets
38. 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.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Battle of the Bulge
Third International
Secularization
39. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Nazi
fire at the Reichstag
Utilitarianism
Axis Powers
40. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Enigma
fire at the Reichstag
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Fascist Party
41. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Red Russians
Secularization
ancien regime
Emelyn Pugachev
42. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Zimmerman telegram
Leipzig
Thomas Malthus
Boer War
43. 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
Daimler and Benz
Franco-Prussian War
Emelyn Pugachev
44. 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.
Russian Revolution
Panther
Blaise Pascal
Girondins
45. 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.'
Bishop Bossuet
Vichy Regime
Mary Wollstonecraft
Congress of Vienna
46. 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.
fire at the Reichstag
Treaty of London
French Revolution of 1848
Final Solution
47. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
'Turnip' Townsend
Central Powers.
Absolutism
Ferdinand VII
48. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Dutch Republic
Ptolemy
Emmanuel Sieyes
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
49. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Frederick the Great
Marie Curie
fire at the Reichstag
50. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Battle of the Bulge
John Rockefeller
Home Rule
Continental System