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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Panther
Dutch Republic
Home Rule
John F. Kennedy
2. Britain and America
Boer War
Allied Powers
Battle of the Somme
Enclosure movement
3. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Directory
James Watt
conscription
4. 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
Isaac Newton
Gottfried Leibniz
Francois Voltaire
Korean War
5. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Girondins
Oliver Cromwell
Giuseppe Mazzini
Panther
6. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Steel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Third International
Boer War
7. 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)
Panther
Benito Mussolini
Francois Voltaire
Greek Revolution
8. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
First and Second International
Social Democratic Party
Dulce et Decorum Est
9. 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.
Greek Revolution
Concert of Europe
Fascist Party
Joseph II
10. 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.
Spanish Civil War
British East India Company
Andrew Carnegie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Oliver Cromwell
Concert of Europe
Volksgeist
Directory
12. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Nikita Khrushchev
Allied Powers
Thomas Malthus
Continental System
13. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Stalingrad
Enclosure movement
Triple Entente
William and Catherine Booth
14. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Marshall plan
Edinburgh
Petition of Rights
15. Result of end of Austria-Prussian War - Austria doesn't get involved in German affairs - North German Confederation made under rulership of Prussia. Major step towards German unification.
Adam Smith
Triple Alliance
John Rockefeller
North German Confederation
16. 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.
soviets
Russian Revolution
William and Catherine Booth
Enigma
17. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Heinrich Himmler
Marshall plan
Volksgeist
Declaration of Pillnitz
18. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Assembly of Notables
Battle of Adowa
Triple Alliance
19. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Panther
Herbert Spencer
John Locke
20. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Francois Voltaire
Edward Gibbon
Franz Ferdinand
21. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Johannes Kepler
Charles Montesquieu
Lusitania
White Russians
22. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Girondins
Utilitarianism
Cecil Rhodes.
Absolutism
23. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
fire at the Reichstag
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Korean War
24. 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.
Adam Smith
Whigs
Fascist Party
Count Cavour
25. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Labour Party
Kronstadt
26. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Adowa
fire at the Reichstag
27. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Louis XIV
Marie Curie
Andrew Carnegie
Legislative Assembly
28. After Charles X is abdicated - this LIBERAL KING is given the throne of France. He is called the 'King of the French -' which meant that he worked for the people. NATIONAL GUARD killed forty rioters.
Louis Philippe I
John Locke
X-Ray
Korean War
29. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Transcendentalists
Austria-Hungary
Spanish Civil War
Vesalius
30. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Russo-Japanese War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Treaty of Tilsit
James Watt
31. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Thomas Malthus
Herbert Spencer
Concert of Europe
32. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Lusitania
Edmund Burke
Joseph II
ultraroyalists
33. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Austria-Hungary
Boer War
Public Health Act
Whigs
34. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Korean War
Public Health Act
Edmund Burke
35. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Franco-Prussian War
Jacobins
Marshall plan
Seven Weeks' War
36. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Andrew Carnegie
Oliver Cromwell
Charles Albert
Berlin Conference
37. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Johannes Kepler
Kronstadt
Ottoman empire dissolved
38. Petition in 19th century Britain where members of the working class demanded reforms in Parliament and in elections - including suffrage for all MEN.
Oliver Cromwell
Chartist Movement
Jacobins
First and Second International
39. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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40. 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.
Charles Albert
Seven Year's War
Francois Voltaire
Frederick the Great
41. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Heinrich Himmler
Atlantic Charter
42. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Count Cavour
Bishop Bossuet
Fabian Society
Korean War
43. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Paracelsus
Treaty of Frankfurt
Petition of Rights
John Stuart Mill
44. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Marie Curie
Robert Koch
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Galileo Galilei
45. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Nikita Khrushchev
Isaac Newton
Austro-Piedmontese War
Bishop Bossuet
46. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Lateran Pact
Dual Monarchy
ultraroyalists
British East India Company
47. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
ancien regime
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Jacobins
Atlantic Charter
48. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Thirty Years' War
Heinrich Himmler
Copernicus
Nikita Khrushchev
49. 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.
Edinburgh
ancien regime
Assembly of Notables
Vladimir Lenin
50. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Nikita Khrushchev
English Civil War
Factory Act
John F. Kennedy