SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Western Civilization II
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Blaise Pascal
Ferdinand VII
Legislative Assembly
Peter the Great
2. 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
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
3. 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
Potsdam
Adam Smith
Francois Voltaire
Daimler and Benz
4. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
Edinburgh
Frederick the Great
Marshall plan
5. Invented CROP ROTATION.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
6. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Herbert Spencer
English Civil War
Johannes Kepler
Leipzig
7. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
John Stuart Mill
Paracelsus
Labour Party
Zimmerman telegram
8. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Thermidor
Free French
Leipzig
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
9. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Labour Party
Bradenburg-Prussia
Lusitania
Heinrich Himmler
10. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Petition of Rights
Seven Weeks' War
Johannes Kepler
Emmeline Prankhurst
11. 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
Peter the Great
Charles Montesquieu
Copernicus
12. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Battle of the Bulge
Legislative Assembly
Lenin and Trotsky
13. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a TELESCOPE to study the stars. Advocated heliocentric theory. Was tried by the INQUISITION and spent his life under house arrest.
Black Shirt March
Battle of the Bulge
Galileo Galilei
Fascist Party
14. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Potsdam
Axis Powers
Battle of Adowa
Brezhnev Doctrine
15. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
William and Catherine Booth
Treaty of Paris
Kronstadt
16. Britain and America
Edmund Burke
Count Cavour
Allied Powers
Directory
17. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Ptolemy
Concert of Europe
William Gladstone
Thermidorian Reaction
18. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
John F. Kennedy
Marshall plan
Steel
19. 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.
The Glorious Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Adolf Eichmann
20. 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.
Catherine the Great
Tories
Georges Jacques Danton
Treaty of Tilsit
21. 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
Russo-Japanese War
Louis XIV
Isaac Newton
Rene Descartes
22. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Legislative Assembly
fire at the Reichstag
Battle of Adowa
23. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Fabian Society
Fascist Party
Theodore Herzl
Sergei Witte
24. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
25. 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
Benito Mussolini
First and Second International
Battle of the Somme
26. 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.
Transcendentalists
Vesalius
Concert of Europe
Greek Revolution
27. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Count Cavour
Robert Koch
Franz Ferdinand
Enigma
28. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Labour Party
Vladimir Lenin
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Eastern Question
29. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Lusitania
Thermidorian Reaction
Bradenburg-Prussia
Gottfried Leibniz
30. 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
Thermidorian Reaction
Axis Powers
Chartist Movement
Revolution from Above
31. THE ATHENS OF THE NORTH. The Scottish had their own Enlightenment.
Absolutism
Isaac Newton
Denis Diderot
Edinburgh
32. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. INDUSTRIALIZED RUSSIA using FIVE YEAR PLANS which developed economics and emphasizes steel - iron - electricity - and heavy
Warsaw Pact
Charles Montesquieu
Joseph Stalin
Treaty of Paris
33. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
vanguard
Battle of the Bulge
John Locke
34. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Red Russians
fire at the Reichstag
Friedrich Nietzsche
Black Shirt March
35. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Labour Party
Continental System
soviets
36. 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.
Treaty of Paris
Paris Commune
Reform Bill
Joseph II
37. 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.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Easter Rising
Oliver Cromwell
Edict of Nantes
38. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Kronstadt
Edict of Nantes
Mary Wollstonecraft
Battle of the Somme
39. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Triple Entente
Red Russians
ancien regime
40. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
X-Ray
Chartist Movement
Battle of the Bulge
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Central Powers.
Paracelsus
42. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Bradenburg-Prussia
Georges Jacques Danton
Assembly of Notables
43. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Home Rule
Steel
soviets
Napoleon
44. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Secularization
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Ferdinand VII
Free French
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.
Theodore Herzl
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Thermidorian Reaction
North German Confederation
46. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Fabian Society
First and Second International
Fascist Party
Berlin Conference
47. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
ultraroyalists
Steel
Copernicus
Triple Entente
48. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Battle of Adowa
Catherine the Great
Kronstadt
Treaty of Frankfurt
49. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Steel
Kulaks
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enigma
50. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Tories
Secularization
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Daimler and Benz