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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Lateran Pact
Fascist Party
Charles Albert
Edict of Nantes
2. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Whigs
vanguard
The Glorious Revolution
3. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Utilitarianism
fire at the Reichstag
Zimmerman telegram
Isaac Newton
4. A military draft
Potsdam
Denis Diderot
conscription
John Rockefeller
5. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
William and Catherine Booth
Dutch Republic
6. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Seven Weeks' War
Stalingrad
Leipzig
Panther
7. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Nikita Khrushchev
Robert Koch
Jacobins
Vladimir Lenin
8. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Oliver Cromwell
Black Shirt March
Public Health Act
'Turnip' Townsend
9. ELECTED president of France following general election. Won 70% of the votes because of his name. Bonaparte later changed the government to an empire w/himself as emperor just like his uncle - the original Napoleon. Took the title of EMPEROR NAPOLEON
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Johannes Kepler
Berlin Conference
Napoleon
10. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Warsaw Pact
Ottoman empire dissolved
Stalingrad
Vesalius
11. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Revolution from Above
Benito Mussolini
conscription
Central Powers.
12. 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
North German Confederation
Axis Powers
Denis Diderot
13. 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
Ptolemy
Thomas Malthus
Girondins
Dutch Republic
14. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Franco-Prussian War
Thermidor
Fascist Party
Marie Curie
15. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
John Stuart Mill
Absolutism
Brezhnev Doctrine
Oliver Cromwell
16. 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.
Transcendentalists
Austro-Piedmontese War
Battle of Adowa
Enigma
17. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Spanish Civil War
Kronstadt
Secularization
Robert Koch
18. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Russo-Japanese War
Congress of Vienna
Edmund Burke
Directory
19. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
Paris Commune
Treaty of Frankfurt
20. 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.
Lusitania
Oliver Cromwell
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Lateran Pact
21. SOCIALISTIC political party in Germany. SDP
Fabian Society
Social Democratic Party
Continental System
French Revolution of 1848
22. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Black Shirt March
Committee of Public Safety
Thermidor
Marshall plan
23. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Thirty Years' War
Atlantic Charter
Factory Act
24. 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
The Glorious Revolution
English Civil War
Vesalius
Jean Paul Marat
25. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Panther
Red Russians
Boer War
Catherine the Great
26. 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.
Theodore Herzl
Franco-Prussian War
Thermidorian Reaction
Mary Wollstonecraft
27. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
French Revolution of 1848
Stalingrad
English Civil War
Marie Curie
28. 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
Austria-Hungary
Spanish Civil War
Triple Entente
Robert Koch
29. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Copernicus
Sergei Witte
Paracelsus
Joseph II
30. 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.
Austro-Piedmontese War
John Rockefeller
Bradenburg-Prussia
Atlantic Charter
31. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Easter Rising
Paracelsus
conscription
Frederick the Great
32. 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.
Gottfried Leibniz
Oliver Cromwell
Galileo Galilei
Russian Revolution
33. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
John Stuart Mill
Herbert Spencer
Public Health Act
soviets
34. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Catherine the Great
Korean War
White Russians
Emmeline Prankhurst
35. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Volksgeist
Thirty Years' War
Louis Philippe I
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
Assembly of Notables
Sergei Witte
Potsdam
Easter Rising
37. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Seven Year's War
Kaiser Wilhelm I
New Economic Policy
William Gladstone
38. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Marshall plan
Eastern Question
Social Democratic Party
39. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Directory
Russian Revolution
40. 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
'Turnip' Townsend
Denis Diderot
Seven Weeks' War
41. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Bradenburg-Prussia
Fabian Society
Holy Alliance
Adolf Eichmann
42. Tutor of Louis XIV who taught about the DIVINE RIGHT of the monarchy - which helped secure Louis' ideal of absolute monarchy. Conservative. Wrote 'Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Scripture.'
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Bishop Bossuet
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Volksgeist
43. A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. This company controlled the political - social - and economic life in India for more than 200 years.
Sergei Witte
Adolf Eichmann
British East India Company
Revisionists
44. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Enclosure movement
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Theodore Herzl
45. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
First and Second International
Giuseppe Mazzini
Jean Paul Marat
Crimean War
46. Louis XVI called nobles and clergy to ask for money and the wealthy refused. The nobles refused to pay taxes. This group was made up of people selected by the king and was made up primarily of nobles.
Franco-Prussian War
Russo-Japanese War
Ptolemy
Assembly of Notables
47. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Labour Party
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Concert of Europe
48. Discovered radium.
Marie Curie
conscription
Friedrich Nietzsche
British East India Company
49. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Napoleon
Transcendentalists
Herbert Spencer
ultraroyalists
50. 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.
Berlin Conference
Steel
Fabian Society
Louis Philippe I