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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Emelyn Pugachev
Galileo Galilei
Factory Act
James Watt
2. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Benito Mussolini
Directory
Kulaks
Cecil Rhodes.
3. A Jewish British prime minister.
Kronstadt
Social Democratic Party
Benjamin Disraeli
Labour Party
4. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Steel
Theodore Herzl
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
5. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Kronstadt
Volksgeist
Axis Powers
Dual Monarchy
6. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Easter Rising
Edict of Nantes
English Civil War
ancien regime
7. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Adolf Eichmann
Theodore Herzl
White Russians
Third International
8. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Triple Alliance
Stalingrad
Third International
Thomas Malthus
9. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Girondins
ancien regime
Battle of Adowa
10. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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11. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Absolutism
Louis XIV
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Heinrich Himmler
12. 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.
Triple Alliance
French Revolution of 1848
Benito Mussolini
Panther
13. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Leipzig
Emmeline Prankhurst
Tories
Rene Descartes
14. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Battle of the Bulge
Marshall plan
Robert Koch
William Gladstone
15. 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
fire at the Reichstag
William Gladstone
Warsaw Pact
16. 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.
Lateran Pact
Holy Alliance
Ptolemy
Berlin Conference
17. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
White Russians
Ptolemy
Allied Powers
Directory
18. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Gottfried Leibniz
First and Second International
Edinburgh
Louis Philippe I
19. 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
Declaration of Pillnitz
Marshall plan
Allies
20. 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.
Joseph II
Vladimir Lenin
Oliver Cromwell
Catherine the Great
21. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Chartist Movement
Whigs
Paris Commune
Russo-Japanese War
22. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of Paris
Atlantic Charter
Spanish Civil War
23. 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
Potsdam
Thirty Years' War
Continental System
Edward Gibbon
24. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Gottfried Leibniz
Triple Entente
Thermidor
Third International
25. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Jean Paul Marat
Spanish-American War
Benito Mussolini
Free French
26. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Seven Year's War
Allied Powers
Concert of Europe
Revolution from Above
27. 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.
Legislative Assembly
Theodore Herzl
Georges Jacques Danton
Battle of Adowa
28. 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.
Fabian Society
Rene Descartes
Frederick the Great
John F. Kennedy
29. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Public Health Act
Thermidor
Central Powers.
Whigs
30. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Allies
Factory Act
John Locke
31. 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.
Free French
First and Second International
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Benjamin Disraeli
32. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Vladimir Lenin
Triple Entente
Marie Curie
33. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
conscription
Whigs
Peter the Great
X-Ray
34. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Joseph Stalin
English Civil War
Paracelsus
Adam Smith
35. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Tories
Spanish-American War
Vesalius
36. 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
English Civil War
Bishop Bossuet
Boer War
Treaty of London
37. 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.
Whigs
Count Cavour
Lateran Pact
Potsdam
38. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Georges Jacques Danton
Warsaw Pact
Zimmerman telegram
Red Russians
39. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Seven Weeks' War
Benjamin Disraeli
Paris Commune
Revisionists
40. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Warsaw Pact
Soviet-Afghan War
Leipzig
fire at the Reichstag
41. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Axis Powers
Enigma
Reform Bill
42. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Steel
Social Democratic Party
Vichy Regime
Daimler and Benz
43. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Allies
Korean War
Lenin and Trotsky
Fascist Party
44. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Social Democratic Party
Girondins
Edinburgh
vanguard
45. Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance - self- culture - self-discipline - and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.
Thermidor
Battle of Adowa
Transcendentalists
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
46. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
soviets
Thirty Years' War
John Locke
Central Powers.
47. 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.
Russian Revolution
Isaac Newton
Boer War
Treaty of Tilsit
48. 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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49. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Utilitarianism
Tories
'Turnip' Townsend
50. 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
Allies
William Gladstone
Louis Philippe I
Francois Voltaire