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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Fascist Party
'Turnip' Townsend
Treaty of London
Vichy Regime
2. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Thirty Years' War
Red Russians
Thermidor
3. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Black Shirt March
Easter Rising
Brezhnev Doctrine
Fabian Society
4. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Quadruple Alliance
Continental System
Reform Bill
5. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
X-Ray
Thermidorian Reaction
Treaty of Frankfurt
Isaac Newton
6. 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)
Benito Mussolini
Edmund Burke
Robert Koch
Kronstadt
7. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Triple Alliance
Atlantic Charter
Social Democratic Party
Free French
8. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Copernicus
Paris Commune
Gottfried Leibniz
Legislative Assembly
9. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Lusitania
Axis Powers
Panther
Rene Descartes
10. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Quadruple Alliance
Count Cavour
Ottoman empire dissolved
11. 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
Francois Voltaire
Sergei Witte
Zimmerman telegram
Charles Montesquieu
12. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Lenin and Trotsky
Peter the Great
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Ferdinand VII
13. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Soviet-Afghan War
vanguard
Easter Rising
Cecil Rhodes.
14. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Committee of Public Safety
Factory Act
Thermidor
Sergei Witte
15. 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.
English Civil War
Austro-Hungarian Empire
'Turnip' Townsend
Enclosure movement
16. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Jacobins
The Glorious Revolution
Black Shirt March
Petition of Rights
17. 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.
Louis XIV
Potsdam
Whigs
Andrew Carnegie
18. 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
Joseph Stalin
Johannes Kepler
Vesalius
19. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
John F. Kennedy
Ottoman empire dissolved
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Boer War
20. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Potsdam
Enclosure movement
Stalingrad
21. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Lenin and Trotsky
Thermidorian Reaction
Committee of Public Safety
First and Second International
22. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
ancien regime
Count Cavour
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bishop Bossuet
23. A military draft
conscription
Zimmerman telegram
New Economic Policy
Giueseppe Garibaldi
24. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Catherine the Great
vanguard
Holy Alliance
Cecil Rhodes.
25. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Fabian Society
Louis Philippe I
Johannes Kepler
26. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Seven Year's War
Thermidorian Reaction
Charles Montesquieu
Labour Party
27. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Continental System
Whigs
Jean Paul Marat
Panther
28. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Cecil Rhodes.
Isaac Newton
Heinrich Himmler
Absolutism
29. 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.
Jacobins
Blaise Pascal
soviets
Dutch Republic
30. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
North German Confederation
Warsaw Pact
First and Second International
Robert Koch
31. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Joseph Stalin
Robert Koch
Lusitania
Treaty of Paris
32. 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.
Thomas Malthus
Joseph II
Sir Francis Bacon
John Stuart Mill
33. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Dual Monarchy
The Glorious Revolution
Emmanuel Sieyes
Marshall plan
34. 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.
ancien regime
Franco-Prussian War
Volksgeist
John Stuart Mill
35. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Kronstadt
British East India Company
Denis Diderot
36. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
Andrew Carnegie
Georges Jacques Danton
British East India Company
Charles Montesquieu
37. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Kronstadt
Treaty of London
Vichy Regime
Whigs
38. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Austria-Hungary
Legislative Assembly
Absolutism
Congress of Vienna
39. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Soviet-Afghan War
Louis XIV
Joseph Stalin
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
40. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Ferdinand VII
Axis Powers
Lusitania
Austro-Piedmontese War
41. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Edmund Burke
Allies
Paris Commune
Daimler and Benz
42. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Marie Curie
John Stuart Mill
Count Cavour
Tories
43. 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.
Francois Voltaire
Fascist Party
Marie Curie
Volksgeist
44. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
The Glorious Revolution
Thirty Years' War
45. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
conscription
Steel
Seven Year's War
46. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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47. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Enigma
Giuseppe Mazzini
Louis XIV
James Watt
48. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
British East India Company
First and Second International
Emmeline Prankhurst
49. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Secularization
'Turnip' Townsend
Triple Entente
Treaty of Frankfurt
50. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Bishop Bossuet
Russian Revolution
James Watt
Edict of Nantes