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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Spanish Civil War
Volksgeist
Denis Diderot
2. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Thermidor
Atlantic Charter
Free French
Triple Entente
3. 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.
Kulaks
Louis Philippe I
French Revolution of 1848
Frederick the Great
4. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Isaac Newton
Tories
Boer War
Count Cavour
5. 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.
Russo-Japanese War
Blaise Pascal
Assembly of Notables
Count Cavour
6. 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.
Social Democratic Party
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Fabian Society
Enigma
7. Extermination of the Jews.
Absolutism
Heinrich Himmler
Final Solution
Johannes Kepler
8. 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
Copernicus
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
9. 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.
Social Democratic Party
Fascist Party
Denis Diderot
Thermidorian Reaction
10. 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.
Lateran Pact
Francois Voltaire
Adam Smith
The Glorious Revolution
11. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Soviet-Afghan War
Sergei Witte
Whigs
Zimmerman telegram
12. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Nazi
vanguard
Leipzig
Allied Powers
13. 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.
Marie Curie
Ptolemy
Dutch Republic
Congress of Vienna
14. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Charles Montesquieu
Brezhnev Doctrine
15. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Edmund Burke
ancien regime
Louis XIV
Marshall plan
16. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Galileo Galilei
Central Powers.
British East India Company
17. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Copernicus
Andrew Carnegie
Dual Monarchy
18. 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
ancien regime
Seven Weeks' War
Sir Francis Bacon
Spanish Civil War
19. 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
Petition of Rights
Count Cavour
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Francois Voltaire
20. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Factory Act
Francois Voltaire
Directory
Quadruple Alliance
21. Three nations - Austria - Russia - and Prussia - who were nervous about liberal revolts - established the PROTOCOL OF TROPPAU that states they can intervene in the affairs of other countries unable to remain CONSERVATIVE.
Secularization
Benito Mussolini
Holy Alliance
Chartist Movement
22. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Joseph II
Russo-Japanese War
Theodore Herzl
Girondins
23. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Benito Mussolini
Utilitarianism
Dulce et Decorum Est
Thirty Years' War
24. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Committee of Public Safety
fire at the Reichstag
Kulaks
Oliver Cromwell
25. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
John F. Kennedy
Enigma
Catherine the Great
Social Democratic Party
26. 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
Giueseppe Garibaldi
French Revolution of 1848
The Glorious Revolution
Committee of Public Safety
27. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Rene Descartes
Mary Wollstonecraft
Red Russians
Daimler and Benz
28. French philosopher. Scorned all authority - religion - and corrupt government. Extreme CYNIC. Believed in tolerance - reason - and freedom of thought - expression - and religious belief - but not Christianity. Famous quote - 'CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING
Francois Voltaire
soviets
War of Austrian Succession
Blaise Pascal
29. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Tories
Charles Albert
soviets
Rene Descartes
30. Also called the COMINTERN. This institute provided rules for Socialists throughtout Europe to follow. Among it's TWENTYONE CONDITIONS was the rejection of all political forms that called for the institution of communism through gradual means.
Chartist Movement
Third International
conscription
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
31. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
Seven Weeks' War
Edmund Burke
Isaac Newton
32. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Robert Koch
soviets
Declaration of Pillnitz
ultraroyalists
33. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Axis Powers
Greek Revolution
ultraroyalists
John Stuart Mill
34. Robert Jenkins - an English Captain - had his ear cut off by Spanish authorities when trying to smuggle goods into Spain. He preserved his ear in a jar of brandy and seven years later in 1738 - he appeared before the British Parliament and showed the
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35. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Friedrich Nietzsche
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Paracelsus
36. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Quadruple Alliance
Francois Voltaire
Louis Philippe I
Allied Powers
37. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
First and Second International
Seven Weeks' War
Sir Francis Bacon
Leipzig
38. 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.'
Enigma
New Economic Policy
Bishop Bossuet
Lusitania
39. A military draft
Blaise Pascal
Francois Voltaire
conscription
Greek Revolution
40. The King of Prussia who chose Otto Van Bismark to be his Prime Minister. He was eventually crowned Kaiser of Prussia and Germany.
John Stuart Mill
Volksgeist
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Austro-Piedmontese War
41. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Herbert Spencer
Triple Alliance
Allied Powers
Stalingrad
42. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Axis Powers
Kulaks
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Transcendentalists
43. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
The War of Jenkin's Ear
James Watt
Crimean War
Volksgeist
44. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Adam Smith
Spanish-American War
Declaration of Pillnitz
Treaty of Paris
45. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Vladimir Lenin
Revisionists
Emelyn Pugachev
Allies
46. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Franz Ferdinand
Count Cavour
Emmanuel Sieyes
Russian Revolution
47. 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).
John Stuart Mill
Adolf Eichmann
'Turnip' Townsend
Georges Jacques Danton
48. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Black Shirt March
Edward Gibbon
Social Democratic Party
49. Discovered radium.
Cecil Rhodes.
Enclosure movement
Panther
Marie Curie
50. French mathematician who invented CALCULUS - devised a theory of chance and probability. Wrote the 'Pensees.' Argued that religion and science are both true. PASCAL's WAGER said that It is worth the risk believing in God.
Zimmerman telegram
John Locke
Blaise Pascal
Red Russians
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