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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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).
Georges Jacques Danton
Third International
Edmund Burke
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Absolutism
Nikita Khrushchev
Public Health Act
Emelyn Pugachev
3. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Triple Entente
Georges Jacques Danton
Boer War
Third International
4. Discovered radium.
John Locke
Marie Curie
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Louis Philippe I
5. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Free French
Vladimir Lenin
Greek Revolution
Quadruple Alliance
6. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
Battle of Adowa
Seven Year's War
Steel
Oliver Cromwell
7. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Spanish Civil War
vanguard
Count Cavour
8. (1740-48) Conflict caused by the rival claims for the dominions of the Habsburg family. Before the death of Charles VI - Holy Roman emperor and archduke of Austria - many of the European powers had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa wou
Joseph II
Emmanuel Sieyes
Vladimir Lenin
War of Austrian Succession
9. 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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10. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
Utilitarianism
Revisionists
ancien regime
John F. Kennedy
11. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Paracelsus
Free French
Thermidorian Reaction
12. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
North German Confederation
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Georges Jacques Danton
13. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Petition of Rights
Potsdam
'Turnip' Townsend
14. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
conscription
White Russians
Lateran Pact
Paracelsus
15. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Fascist Party
Giuseppe Mazzini
Soviet-Afghan War
Treaty of London
16. A military draft
conscription
The Glorious Revolution
Absolutism
Legislative Assembly
17. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Ottoman empire dissolved
Eastern Question
John Stuart Mill
18. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Greek Revolution
Girondins
Robert Koch
Declaration of Pillnitz
19. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Frederick the Great
Russian Revolution
Oliver Cromwell
20. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Thirty Years' War
ultraroyalists
War of Austrian Succession
Free French
21. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Public Health Act
Andrew Carnegie
Dutch Republic
English Civil War
22. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Soviet-Afghan War
Transcendentalists
The Glorious Revolution
Fabian Society
23. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Battle of the Bulge
Soviet-Afghan War
Enclosure movement
Home Rule
24. 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
Allied Powers
Berlin Conference
Daimler and Benz
Copernicus
25. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Denis Diderot
Factory Act
Battle of the Bulge
Herbert Spencer
26. 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.'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treaty of Paris
Absolutism
ultraroyalists
27. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Andrew Carnegie
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Utilitarianism
Warsaw Pact
28. Radical SUFFRAGETTE who led the WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION - which led large - noisy - and sometimes violent demonstrations.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Soviet-Afghan War
Enclosure movement
Fabian Society
29. An economic advisor to Louis XIV; he supported mercantilism and tried to make France economically self-sufficient. Louis ruined it by his multiple expensive wars and lavish lifestyle.
Panther
French Revolution of 1848
Cecil Rhodes.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
30. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Potsdam
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
vanguard
Charles Albert
31. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Adolf Eichmann
Vichy Regime
Edmund Burke
Louis Philippe I
32. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Allied Powers
Revolution from Above
Red Russians
Treaty of Paris
33. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Utilitarianism
Joseph II
Brezhnev Doctrine
John Stuart Mill
34. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Sergei Witte
Austro-Piedmontese War
Dutch Republic
35. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Revisionists
Marie Curie
Thirty Years' War
Charles Albert
36. 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
Nikita Khrushchev
The Glorious Revolution
Potsdam
Kronstadt
37. Founded the Salvation Army
Catherine the Great
William and Catherine Booth
Austro-Hungarian Empire
fire at the Reichstag
38. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Austria-Hungary
Paris Commune
Jean Paul Marat
Soviet-Afghan War
39. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Triple Entente
First and Second International
Public Health Act
40. 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.
Cecil Rhodes.
James Watt
Fascist Party
Dual Monarchy
41. 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.
North German Confederation
Andrew Carnegie
Thermidorian Reaction
Battle of the Bulge
42. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Theodore Herzl
Lenin and Trotsky
Concert of Europe
43. 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.
Blaise Pascal
Louis XIV
Vichy Regime
Franz Ferdinand
44. 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.
Russian Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
Soviet-Afghan War
Ferdinand VII
45. Extermination of the Jews.
Lusitania
Final Solution
Absolutism
Theodore Herzl
46. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Marie Curie
Seven Weeks' War
Allies
Ptolemy
47. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
British East India Company
Congress of Vienna
Austria-Hungary
48. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Adam Smith
Continental System
Vesalius
Transcendentalists
49. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Potsdam
Treaty of Paris
Seven Year's War
Paris Commune
50. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Battle of Adowa
First and Second International