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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Congress of Vienna
Paracelsus
Thomas Malthus
Cecil Rhodes.
2. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Louis XIV
William Gladstone
Revolution from Above
Benito Mussolini
3. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Benjamin Disraeli
Copernicus
Chartist Movement
Edict of Nantes
4. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Joseph Stalin
Theodore Herzl
Giueseppe Garibaldi
The War of Jenkin's Ear
5. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Brezhnev Doctrine
fire at the Reichstag
Continental System
Concert of Europe
6. 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.
Soviet-Afghan War
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Girondins
Jean Paul Marat
7. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
Peter the Great
John Rockefeller
Atlantic Charter
Nikita Khrushchev
8. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
Easter Rising
Black Shirt March
Copernicus
Frederick the Great
9. 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.
Congress of Vienna
Third International
Brezhnev Doctrine
Zimmerman telegram
10. 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.
Girondins
Louis XIV
Revisionists
Austria-Hungary
11. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Emmeline Prankhurst
Andrew Carnegie
Ottoman empire dissolved
Kronstadt
12. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Central Powers.
Paris Commune
Ptolemy
Tories
13. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Vesalius
Daimler and Benz
Bradenburg-Prussia
Thermidor
14. 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
Treaty of London
Joseph II
Rene Descartes
15. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
John Stuart Mill
Giuseppe Mazzini
Transcendentalists
Warsaw Pact
16. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
William Gladstone
Vichy Regime
Jacobins
Peter the Great
17. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Oliver Cromwell
Directory
Treaty of Paris
Stalingrad
18. 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
John Locke
Johannes Kepler
Benjamin Disraeli
Austro-Hungarian Empire
19. Warship that was sent to the MOROCCAN coast by the GERMANS - to publicly declare they favored Moroccans being free from their colonizers - France. It was a threat to Britain and France.
Charles X
Copernicus
Easter Rising
Panther
20. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Theodore Herzl
'Turnip' Townsend
soviets
21. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Gottfried Leibniz
The War of Jenkin's Ear
New Economic Policy
Boer War
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.
Battle of Adowa
Benjamin Disraeli
Spanish Civil War
Edinburgh
23. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Isaac Newton
Daimler and Benz
Kulaks
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
24. A military draft
Georges Jacques Danton
Louis Philippe I
Joseph Stalin
conscription
25. 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.'
Eastern Question
Paracelsus
John Stuart Mill
Bishop Bossuet
26. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Triple Entente
Korean War
The War of Jenkin's Ear
The Glorious Revolution
27. 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.
Battle of the Bulge
Emelyn Pugachev
Transcendentalists
Emmeline Prankhurst
28. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Quadruple Alliance
fire at the Reichstag
Johannes Kepler
New Economic Policy
29. 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.
Paris Commune
Revolution from Above
Bradenburg-Prussia
Russian Revolution
30. 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.
Frederick the Great
Nikita Khrushchev
Mary Wollstonecraft
Final Solution
31. 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.
Theodore Herzl
Dutch Republic
Cecil Rhodes.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
32. This treaty ended the Seven Years War. Gave Canada and area east of the Mississippi to Britain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enigma
Treaty of Paris
ancien regime
33. 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.
Kronstadt
Heinrich Himmler
Galileo Galilei
Battle of the Bulge
34. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Edinburgh
Theodore Herzl
Austro-Hungarian Empire
35. 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.
Catherine the Great
Sir Francis Bacon
Edinburgh
Reform Bill
36. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Edict of Nantes
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
ancien regime
37. Discovered radium.
French Revolution of 1848
Edinburgh
William and Catherine Booth
Marie Curie
38. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
Public Health Act
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
New Economic Policy
39. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
fire at the Reichstag
Austro-Piedmontese War
Fabian Society
40. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Kulaks
Jacobins
James Watt
Factory Act
41. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Sergei Witte
Charles Montesquieu
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Paracelsus
42. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
John Stuart Mill
Charles Albert
Concert of Europe
Louis Philippe I
43. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
North German Confederation
Bishop Bossuet
Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles Montesquieu
44. 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
Louis Philippe I
Isaac Newton
Charles X
Factory Act
45. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Mary Wollstonecraft
First and Second International
Social Democratic Party
Daimler and Benz
46. 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.
Absolutism
John Locke
Treaty of Tilsit
Vladimir Lenin
47. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
soviets
Frederick the Great
Berlin Conference
Vladimir Lenin
48. 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
English Civil War
Thermidor
Copernicus
Black Shirt March
49. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Home Rule
Greek Revolution
Franz Ferdinand
Peter the Great
50. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Thomas Malthus
Public Health Act
Catherine the Great
Leipzig
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