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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Lusitania
Herbert Spencer
Paris Commune
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
2. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Central Powers.
Sir Francis Bacon
Petition of Rights
Franz Ferdinand
3. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Edward Gibbon
Brezhnev Doctrine
Count Cavour
Johannes Kepler
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
Marshall plan
Treaty of London
Copernicus
Axis Powers
5. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Franz Ferdinand
Warsaw Pact
Utilitarianism
soviets
6. 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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7. 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.
Girondins
Thomas Malthus
Franz Ferdinand
Vesalius
8. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Lusitania
Ferdinand VII
Russo-Japanese War
John F. Kennedy
9. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Central Powers.
Legislative Assembly
Zimmerman telegram
10. Discovered radium.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Louis XIV
Public Health Act
Marie Curie
11. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Blaise Pascal
Petition of Rights
Louis Philippe I
12. 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.'
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Mary Wollstonecraft
Concert of Europe
Free French
13. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Malthus
Allies
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
14. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Chartist Movement
'Turnip' Townsend
Sergei Witte
Public Health Act
15. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Edward Gibbon
Treaty of Paris
Russian Revolution
White Russians
16. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Legislative Assembly
ultraroyalists
Rene Descartes
Dual Monarchy
17. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Louis Philippe I
Jacobins
Eastern Question
Austro-Piedmontese War
18. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
North German Confederation
Andrew Carnegie
Dulce et Decorum Est
Treaty of London
19. 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)
Robert Koch
Jean Paul Marat
Edward Gibbon
Benito Mussolini
20. 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
Treaty of London
Battle of Adowa
Black Shirt March
21. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Social Democratic Party
William and Catherine Booth
Treaty of London
Continental System
22. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Emelyn Pugachev
Atlantic Charter
Oliver Cromwell
Directory
23. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Fabian Society
Denis Diderot
Galileo Galilei
Franco-Prussian War
24. Republican form of government. United Provinces of the Netherlands; tolerant of all religions. 1st half of 17th century was golden age-govt. consisted of organized confederation of 7 provinces each w/ rep. govt. It established the Bank of Amsterdam a
Continental System
Dutch Republic
Thermidorian Reaction
Georges Jacques Danton
25. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Emmeline Prankhurst
Franco-Prussian War
Marshall plan
Whigs
26. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Copernicus
Charles Montesquieu
Napoleon
Ptolemy
27. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Eastern Question
North German Confederation
White Russians
Battle of Adowa
28. Founded the Salvation Army
Dual Monarchy
William and Catherine Booth
Theodore Herzl
Transcendentalists
29. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Potsdam
Vichy Regime
Robert Koch
Copernicus
30. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Factory Act
fire at the Reichstag
Peter the Great
31. 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
Dulce et Decorum Est
Franz Ferdinand
The Glorious Revolution
Utilitarianism
32. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Greek Revolution
Giuseppe Mazzini
Assembly of Notables
Absolutism
33. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Tories
Axis Powers
soviets
Mary Wollstonecraft
34. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Tories
John Rockefeller
Treaty of Frankfurt
Ottoman empire dissolved
35. 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.
Emelyn Pugachev
Adam Smith
Joseph II
Steel
36. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Red Russians
Spanish-American War
Continental System
37. 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.
Triple Alliance
Bradenburg-Prussia
The Glorious Revolution
Charles X
38. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Vichy Regime
Austro-Piedmontese War
conscription
Blaise Pascal
39. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Enigma
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Galileo Galilei
40. Invented CROP ROTATION.
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41. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Denis Diderot
Isaac Newton
Continental System
42. In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans - Socialists - and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the gov
Joseph Stalin
Denis Diderot
Austro-Piedmontese War
Spanish Civil War
43. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Kulaks
Heinrich Himmler
Gottfried Leibniz
Giuseppe Mazzini
44. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Edmund Burke
Atlantic Charter
45. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Social Democratic Party
North German Confederation
Andrew Carnegie
46. 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.
Charles Albert
Eastern Question
Adolf Eichmann
Petition of Rights
47. 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
Cecil Rhodes.
Zimmerman telegram
John Stuart Mill
48. 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.
Heinrich Himmler
Greek Revolution
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Sir Francis Bacon
49. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Franco-Prussian War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Secularization
Greek Revolution
50. 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
English Civil War
Nikita Khrushchev
John Rockefeller