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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Labour Party
Bradenburg-Prussia
Thermidorian Reaction
Stalingrad
2. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Berlin Conference
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Friedrich Nietzsche
Holy Alliance
3. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Rene Descartes
Dutch Republic
Charles Albert
4. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Ptolemy
Edward Gibbon
Adam Smith
Triple Entente
5. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Paris Commune
Battle of the Bulge
Heinrich Himmler
Utilitarianism
6. Passed in 1833 by the SADLER COMMITTEE - this helped prevent exploitation of children factory workers.
Louis Philippe I
Factory Act
Directory
Zimmerman telegram
7. Ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe
'Turnip' Townsend
Ptolemy
Heinrich Himmler
Copernicus
8. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Home Rule
Chartist Movement
Paris Commune
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
9. 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.
Jacobins
Third International
Kronstadt
Leipzig
10. 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.
Sergei Witte
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Blaise Pascal
Galileo Galilei
11. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Battle of the Bulge
Eastern Question
Easter Rising
Ferdinand VII
12. 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.
'Turnip' Townsend
Holy Alliance
First and Second International
Revolution from Above
13. 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.
John F. Kennedy
Gottfried Leibniz
Transcendentalists
vanguard
14. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Chartist Movement
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Easter Rising
Ferdinand VII
15. 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.
Louis XIV
Gottfried Leibniz
Revisionists
Battle of the Somme
16. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Kronstadt
English Civil War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Austria-Hungary
17. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Herbert Spencer
Isaac Newton
Spanish-American War
fire at the Reichstag
18. 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.
William Gladstone
Zimmerman telegram
Peter the Great
Crimean War
19. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Copernicus
Final Solution
20. Government set up in Sourthern France by the Nazis.
Louis XIV
Vichy Regime
Louis Philippe I
Marie Curie
21. Very RADICAL French revolutionary party responsible for Reign of Terror and execution of king
Boer War
Final Solution
Frederick the Great
Jacobins
22. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Potsdam
New Economic Policy
Dutch Republic
Petition of Rights
23. 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
Rene Descartes
Legislative Assembly
Joseph Stalin
fire at the Reichstag
24. Father of modern CONSERVATISM. noted for his emphasis on tradition. Wrote 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.'
Bishop Bossuet
Daimler and Benz
Public Health Act
Edmund Burke
25. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Fascist Party
James Watt
Fabian Society
Robert Koch
26. 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.
The Glorious Revolution
Blaise Pascal
Emelyn Pugachev
Lenin and Trotsky
27. Passed in 1848 - this encouraged local towns to pass SANITATION laws.
Secularization
Public Health Act
Robert Koch
Absolutism
28. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Joseph II
Giuseppe Mazzini
Assembly of Notables
Paris Commune
29. King of PIEDMONT-SARDINIA - part of Italy.
Charles Albert
First and Second International
Absolutism
English Civil War
30. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Central Powers.
'Turnip' Townsend
Treaty of Tilsit
Transcendentalists
31. CONSERVATIVE KING succeeded his brother Louis XVIII. His desire to restore France to a Pre-1789 world led to the Revolution of 1830 and the ascent of Louis Philippe.
Third International
Charles X
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Brezhnev Doctrine
32. An alliance between Great Britain - France and Russia in the years before WWI.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Triple Entente
Robert Koch
Third International
33. Euphemism used to justify DICTATORSHIP in the name of freedom.
Spanish-American War
Utilitarianism
Revolution from Above
The Glorious Revolution
34. The violent backlash in France against the rule of Robspierre that began with his arrest and execution in July 1794 - or 9 Thermidor in the French revolutionary calendar. Most of the instruments of Terror were dismantled - Jacobins were purged from p
Treaty of Frankfurt
Thomas Malthus
Blaise Pascal
Thermidorian Reaction
35. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Continental System
Jean Paul Marat
Treaty of Frankfurt
Russo-Japanese War
36. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Lusitania
Rene Descartes
Allies
Catherine the Great
37. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Whigs
Public Health Act
Allies
The War of Jenkin's Ear
38. Britain political party devoted to the interests of the LABOR UNION movement.
Emelyn Pugachev
Charles Albert
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Labour Party
39. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Peter the Great
soviets
Greek Revolution
Emelyn Pugachev
40. The British government took land from owners - FENCED it off - and used it to raise sheep. Benefitted the economy - but hurt small farmers.
Enclosure movement
Rene Descartes
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Spanish-American War
41. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Eastern Question
Reform Bill
Lusitania
Axis Powers
42. 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
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Zimmerman telegram
Absolutism
Vichy Regime
43. 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
John Stuart Mill
Edmund Burke
Committee of Public Safety
Copernicus
44. 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.
Concert of Europe
Fascist Party
John Stuart Mill
Petition of Rights
45. 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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Austro-Piedmontese War
Galileo Galilei
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
46. Important ZIONIST.
Theodore Herzl
Black Shirt March
Blaise Pascal
ultraroyalists
47. Discovered radium.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Marie Curie
North German Confederation
Peter the Great
48. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Vichy Regime
Louis XIV
Gottfried Leibniz
Kulaks
49. A city Hitler wanted because it was a center of rail transportation and provide access to oil fields.
Count Cavour
Stalingrad
Adam Smith
Joseph II
50. 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
Charles Albert
Joseph II
Red Russians
John Locke