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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Count Cavour
fire at the Reichstag
John F. Kennedy
'Turnip' Townsend
2. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Battle of Adowa
Legislative Assembly
Quadruple Alliance
fire at the Reichstag
3. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Vladimir Lenin
Home Rule
Red Russians
conscription
4. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Seven Year's War
James Watt
Secularization
Congress of Vienna
5. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
North German Confederation
Isaac Newton
Russo-Japanese War
6. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Treaty of Tilsit
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Berlin Conference
Peter the Great
7. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Lenin and Trotsky
Andrew Carnegie
First and Second International
Bishop Bossuet
8. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Adolf Eichmann
Directory
James Watt
John Stuart Mill
9. 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
Fascist Party
Jean Paul Marat
Enclosure movement
10. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Chartist Movement
conscription
ancien regime
Giuseppe Mazzini
11. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Tories
Seven Weeks' War
Rene Descartes
Lenin and Trotsky
12. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Utilitarianism
Final Solution
Austria-Hungary
Fabian Society
13. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Soviet-Afghan War
The Glorious Revolution
Edict of Nantes
Gottfried Leibniz
14. Tsar who - in the late 17th and early 18th century - turned to the western model to 'modernize' Russia.
Peter the Great
Seven Year's War
ultraroyalists
Thomas Malthus
15. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Isaac Newton
John Rockefeller
Spanish Civil War
Quadruple Alliance
16. (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
War of Austrian Succession
Jean Paul Marat
Herbert Spencer
James Watt
17. 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).
Spanish-American War
Georges Jacques Danton
Robert Koch
Sir Francis Bacon
18. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
X-Ray
Edward Gibbon
Gottfried Leibniz
19. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Atlantic Charter
Austria-Hungary
Seven Weeks' War
Thermidor
20. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Frederick the Great
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Triple Alliance
21. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Thirty Years' War
Fascist Party
Daimler and Benz
ultraroyalists
22. 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.
British East India Company
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dulce et Decorum Est
Louis XIV
23. Britain and America
Charles X
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Allied Powers
Lenin and Trotsky
24. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Catherine the Great
French Revolution of 1848
Louis XIV
Public Health Act
25. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790). His LAISSEZ-FAIRE economics maintains that governments should let the economy run on it's own and natural laws will keep it afloat. This is capitalism.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
French Revolution of 1848
Adam Smith
Emelyn Pugachev
26. 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
William and Catherine Booth
Directory
Charles Montesquieu
27. 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.
Girondins
Nikita Khrushchev
Paracelsus
Benjamin Disraeli
28. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Edmund Burke
Absolutism
Brezhnev Doctrine
Stalingrad
29. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Dutch Republic
Charles Albert
Gottfried Leibniz
ultraroyalists
30. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
North German Confederation
Ptolemy
Benito Mussolini
Revisionists
31. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Dual Monarchy
Ferdinand VII
Congress of Vienna
Transcendentalists
32. The English Parliament drove out an Catholic absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's WILLIAM III OF ORANGE and MARY - his wife - both Protestants. This Revolution was bloodless - and the new monarch's assented to a BILL OF
Legislative Assembly
James Watt
The Glorious Revolution
Allied Powers
33. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Emmeline Prankhurst
conscription
Crimean War
34. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Enigma
Leipzig
Franco-Prussian War
Austro-Piedmontese War
35. English philosopher who advocated the idea of a 'social contract' in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to LIFE - LIBERTY AND PROPER
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Labour Party
John Locke
Bradenburg-Prussia
36. 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.
conscription
Assembly of Notables
Bradenburg-Prussia
Bishop Bossuet
37. 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.
Treaty of Tilsit
Seven Weeks' War
'Turnip' Townsend
Free French
38. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Napoleon
Benjamin Disraeli
39. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Jacobins
British East India Company
Giuseppe Mazzini
Absolutism
40. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Lenin and Trotsky
Petition of Rights
Continental System
41. Conflict between the Russian and Ottoman Empires over Christian shrines and territory fought primarily in the Crimean Peninsula. To prevent Russian expansion - Britain and France sent troops to support the Ottomans.
Crimean War
Johannes Kepler
Emmeline Prankhurst
John Stuart Mill
42. Founded the Salvation Army
John Rockefeller
The Glorious Revolution
Thomas Malthus
William and Catherine Booth
43. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Battle of the Somme
'Turnip' Townsend
Third International
vanguard
44. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Directory
Soviet-Afghan War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Kronstadt
45. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Edinburgh
Final Solution
46. 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.
Fascist Party
John Rockefeller
Reform Bill
Allies
47. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Francois Voltaire
Peter the Great
Triple Entente
Dulce et Decorum Est
48. 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.
Battle of the Somme
Transcendentalists
Franco-Prussian War
Nikita Khrushchev
49. 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
Red Russians
Absolutism
Isaac Newton
Axis Powers
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.
Louis Philippe I
Marshall plan
Zimmerman telegram
Revisionists