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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Louis XIV
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Labour Party
Isaac Newton
2. 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.
Isaac Newton
The Glorious Revolution
Louis Philippe I
Potsdam
3. The CONSERVATIVE side of the National Assembly. They favored having a king and wanted an absolute monarchy like England. They were the first people to control the National Assembly.
Free French
Franco-Prussian War
Girondins
Paris Commune
4. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vladimir Lenin
Absolutism
5. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Frederick the Great
Concert of Europe
Kulaks
Petition of Rights
6. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Frederick the Great
Brezhnev Doctrine
Bishop Bossuet
Absolutism
7. Made by Mussolini with the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Declared catholicism Italy's official religion - made church lands tax exempt - and gave church ability to oversee rules regarding marriage. The church then RECOGNIZED MUSSOLINI's status as ruler of Italy.
Congress of Vienna
Lateran Pact
Whigs
Zimmerman telegram
8. 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.
Transcendentalists
North German Confederation
Seven Weeks' War
Russian Revolution
9. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Treaty of London
Enclosure movement
Easter Rising
Ottoman empire dissolved
10. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Louis Philippe I
Atlantic Charter
Kulaks
Directory
11. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
English Civil War
Committee of Public Safety
Steel
Kaiser Wilhelm I
12. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Triple Alliance
Secularization
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Lusitania
13. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Ottoman empire dissolved
John F. Kennedy
Lusitania
14. 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
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
Theodore Herzl
The Glorious Revolution
15. 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.
Sergei Witte
Revisionists
Fascist Party
Paris Commune
16. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Social Democratic Party
Copernicus
Greek Revolution
17. Idea created by JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERGER about a 'PEOPLE'S SPIRIT' to identify the national character of Germany - but soon passed to other countries. NATIONALISM.
Russian Revolution
Volksgeist
Ottoman empire dissolved
Continental System
18. A Jewish British prime minister.
'Turnip' Townsend
Benjamin Disraeli
Franz Ferdinand
Home Rule
19. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Blaise Pascal
Daimler and Benz
Thermidor
Panther
20. 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
Giuseppe Mazzini
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Volksgeist
Peter the Great
21. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Final Solution
Mary Wollstonecraft
Red Russians
22. 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
ultraroyalists
William and Catherine Booth
Petition of Rights
Dutch Republic
23. 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.
Bishop Bossuet
Adam Smith
British East India Company
Louis Philippe I
24. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
North German Confederation
Isaac Newton
Atlantic Charter
Triple Alliance
25. March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary - addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return - Germany would give back
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Copernicus
Allied Powers
Zimmerman telegram
26. 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.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revisionists
Gottfried Leibniz
Crimean War
27. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Volksgeist
Holy Alliance
Copernicus
Sir Francis Bacon
28. US president who gave a deadline to the Soviet Union to stop building missiles on Cuba.
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Marie Curie
Black Shirt March
John F. Kennedy
29. 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
Catherine the Great
Isaac Newton
War of Austrian Succession
Public Health Act
30. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Vladimir Lenin
Enclosure movement
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Spanish Civil War
31. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Treaty of Frankfurt
Declaration of Pillnitz
Thermidor
Ptolemy
32. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Kronstadt
Declaration of Pillnitz
Transcendentalists
Emmeline Prankhurst
33. Britain and America
Final Solution
Jacobins
Allied Powers
William and Catherine Booth
34. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris Commune
Triple Entente
35. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
John Stuart Mill
Theodore Herzl
Kaiser Wilhelm I
36. 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
Oliver Cromwell
Dual Monarchy
Thermidorian Reaction
37. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Franz Ferdinand
Thermidor
Black Shirt March
Vichy Regime
38. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Louis Philippe I
Treaty of Paris
Austria-Hungary
Galileo Galilei
39. Overthrew the monarchy established in 1830; briefly established a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; failure of the republic led to the reestablishment of the French Empire under NAPOLEON III in 1850.
French Revolution of 1848
Easter Rising
Committee of Public Safety
Franco-Prussian War
40. Were forced by mobs to END the MONARCHY in France.
Steel
Transcendentalists
Legislative Assembly
New Economic Policy
41. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Lusitania
Thirty Years' War
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Axis Powers
42. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
Berlin Conference
Steel
Legislative Assembly
43. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Rene Descartes
Cecil Rhodes.
Charles Albert
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
44. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Korean War
Secularization
French Revolution of 1848
Charles X
45. 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.
Herbert Spencer
Zimmerman telegram
Johannes Kepler
Austro-Hungarian Empire
46. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Vladimir Lenin
Fabian Society
Count Cavour
Treaty of Paris
47. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Fabian Society
Blaise Pascal
Andrew Carnegie
Assembly of Notables
48. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
vanguard
Isaac Newton
William Gladstone
Home Rule
49. 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
Joseph Stalin
Thomas Malthus
Treaty of Paris
Girondins
50. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Battle of the Bulge
Enigma
Congress of Vienna
Boer War