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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Labour Party
Blaise Pascal
John Stuart Mill
Count Cavour
2. 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.
Assembly of Notables
conscription
Legislative Assembly
Chartist Movement
3. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Concert of Europe
Central Powers.
War of Austrian Succession
Directory
4. A military draft
Secularization
Marie Curie
conscription
James Watt
5. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Georges Jacques Danton
Girondins
6. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Third International
Adam Smith
White Russians
7. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Battle of Adowa
William Gladstone
Nazi
Eastern Question
8. 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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Bradenburg-Prussia
Oliver Cromwell
Potsdam
9. 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.
Triple Entente
British East India Company
Oliver Cromwell
Third International
10. 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.
Fabian Society
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Brezhnev Doctrine
11. One of the prominent JACOBIN radical leaders during the revolution. He edited a radical newspaper. He called to rid France of the enemies of the Revolution
Volksgeist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean Paul Marat
Benjamin Disraeli
12. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Congress of Vienna
X-Ray
Giuseppe Mazzini
Treaty of Frankfurt
13. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Public Health Act
Brezhnev Doctrine
John Locke
Benito Mussolini
14. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Catherine the Great
Enclosure movement
Treaty of Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
15. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Committee of Public Safety
Austria-Hungary
Emmeline Prankhurst
Cecil Rhodes.
16. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Napoleon
French Revolution of 1848
Emelyn Pugachev
Kulaks
17. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Franz Ferdinand
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Russo-Japanese War
18. 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
Greek Revolution
Crimean War
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Bishop Bossuet
19. Greater freedom for Ireland.
ancien regime
War of Austrian Succession
Kronstadt
Home Rule
20. 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
Greek Revolution
Edmund Burke
Spanish Civil War
Georges Jacques Danton
21. Meeting among world powers concerning how the world would run after Napoleon. They wanted no country to control another - creating buffer states - Belgium - from France's conquered territory. PEACEKEEPERS.
Assembly of Notables
Transcendentalists
Congress of Vienna
Lateran Pact
22. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Battle of the Bulge
Benito Mussolini
Johannes Kepler
Kronstadt
23. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Vesalius
Tories
Emmeline Prankhurst
Lenin and Trotsky
24. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Treaty of London
Emmeline Prankhurst
Heinrich Himmler
Revolution from Above
25. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
Nazi
Thermidor
Lenin and Trotsky
Mary Wollstonecraft
26. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Dutch Republic
Directory
Sir Francis Bacon
Francois Voltaire
27. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Reform Bill
Austro-Piedmontese War
Theodore Herzl
John Locke
28. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Whigs
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Spanish-American War
Girondins
29. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Secularization
Tories
Revisionists
Thermidorian Reaction
30. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Galileo Galilei
Edmund Burke
Charles Albert
Ottoman empire dissolved
31. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Labour Party
Battle of the Somme
Absolutism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32. 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.
Charles Montesquieu
Dual Monarchy
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Final Solution
33. 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
Petition of Rights
Legislative Assembly
Joseph Stalin
Franz Ferdinand
34. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Francois Voltaire
Marshall plan
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fabian Society
35. 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
English Civil War
Thomas Malthus
Emmeline Prankhurst
First and Second International
36. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
War of Austrian Succession
Charles Albert
Vichy Regime
Committee of Public Safety
37. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Lusitania
ultraroyalists
Copernicus
Paris Commune
38. 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
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Treaty of Tilsit
Eastern Question
39. A highly influential French philosopher who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good - and be a democracy. Wrote 'SOCIAL CONTRACT -' and advocated the general w
Charles Albert
Bradenburg-Prussia
X-Ray
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
40. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
Axis Powers
Emmanuel Sieyes
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Seven Year's War
41. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Marshall plan
Central Powers.
Girondins
Enclosure movement
42. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Red Russians
Georges Jacques Danton
Enclosure movement
Congress of Vienna
43. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Treaty of Tilsit
Vladimir Lenin
Zimmerman telegram
Theodore Herzl
44. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Treaty of Paris
Dulce et Decorum Est
Volksgeist
Free French
45. Important ZIONIST.
Andrew Carnegie
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jacobins
Theodore Herzl
46. 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.
Legislative Assembly
New Economic Policy
North German Confederation
Battle of Adowa
47. 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
William Gladstone
X-Ray
Edmund Burke
48. (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
Benjamin Disraeli
Vladimir Lenin
War of Austrian Succession
Dulce et Decorum Est
49. 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.
Spanish-American War
Edmund Burke
Austro-Hungarian Empire
First and Second International
50. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Legislative Assembly
Sir Francis Bacon
Fascist Party