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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Ptolemy
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jacobins
2. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
John Rockefeller
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Utilitarianism
Committee of Public Safety
3. 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
Jacobins
Kronstadt
Daimler and Benz
The Glorious Revolution
4. 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.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Volksgeist
Joseph II
Oliver Cromwell
5. Discovered radium.
Franco-Prussian War
Marie Curie
Third International
Austro-Piedmontese War
6. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
Battle of the Somme
Paracelsus
Edward Gibbon
7. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Spanish Civil War
Count Cavour
ancien regime
Tories
8. Promoted a GOSPEL of WEALTH - creating a heaven on earth by helping the poor to help themselves.
Third International
soviets
Edict of Nantes
Andrew Carnegie
9. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Marie Curie
Steel
Bradenburg-Prussia
10. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Black Shirt March
Rene Descartes
Thomas Malthus
Russian Revolution
11. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Treaty of Tilsit
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Franz Ferdinand
12. 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.
Edmund Burke
Thermidor
Red Russians
Adam Smith
13. 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.
Atlantic Charter
Assembly of Notables
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Crimean War
14. 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.
Panther
Stalingrad
Paris Commune
William Gladstone
15. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Gottfried Leibniz
Andrew Carnegie
Directory
Battle of the Somme
16. 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.
Easter Rising
Treaty of Frankfurt
Volksgeist
Lateran Pact
17. 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.
Utilitarianism
Soviet-Afghan War
Revisionists
Third International
18. The most important commodity of the SECOND Industrial Revolution. Used for building ships - trains - bridges - and weapons of war.
'Turnip' Townsend
Benjamin Disraeli
Steel
New Economic Policy
19. 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
Copernicus
Transcendentalists
Whigs
Adam Smith
20. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Home Rule
Kronstadt
French Revolution of 1848
Adam Smith
21. Powerful poem by WILFRED OWEN about the horrors of WWI.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Kulaks
Continental System
White Russians
22. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Assembly of Notables
Whigs
Seven Weeks' War
Fabian Society
23. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Easter Rising
Vladimir Lenin
Herbert Spencer
Crimean War
24. Extermination of the Jews.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Final Solution
Triple Entente
Charles Albert
25. A war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of modern Germany; 1870-1871Declared by OTTO VON BISMARK. Humiliating for the French.
Russo-Japanese War
Benjamin Disraeli
Lenin and Trotsky
Franco-Prussian War
26. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Seven Weeks' War
Kulaks
French Revolution of 1848
Dutch Republic
27. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Franco-Prussian War
Emmanuel Sieyes
Revisionists
Petition of Rights
28. 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
Herbert Spencer
Daimler and Benz
Emmanuel Sieyes
29. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Louis Philippe I
Treaty of London
Kulaks
Red Russians
30. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Triple Entente
Edinburgh
ancien regime
Ottoman empire dissolved
31. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
X-Ray
Lenin and Trotsky
Copernicus
Sergei Witte
32. Advanced the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Thought that diseases were caused by chemical imbalances.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nikita Khrushchev
Paracelsus
Bradenburg-Prussia
33. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Peter the Great
Declaration of Pillnitz
Edward Gibbon
Bishop Bossuet
34. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Declaration of Pillnitz
Bishop Bossuet
Dual Monarchy
Friedrich Nietzsche
35. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Emelyn Pugachev
Joseph Stalin
Georges Jacques Danton
Treaty of London
36. Wrote the pamphlet 'What is the THIRD ESTATE' concerning the plight of France's lower class.
Daimler and Benz
Volksgeist
Catherine the Great
Emmanuel Sieyes
37. 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
Russian Revolution
Frederick the Great
Jean Paul Marat
38. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Chartist Movement
John Stuart Mill
Heinrich Himmler
Lusitania
39. 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.
White Russians
Battle of Adowa
Fascist Party
Eastern Question
40. 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
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Count Cavour
Dutch Republic
41. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Louis XIV
William Gladstone
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Assembly of Notables
42. Greater freedom for Ireland.
French Revolution of 1848
Home Rule
Denis Diderot
Edict of Nantes
43. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Panther
Friedrich Nietzsche
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
44. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Theodore Herzl
Benjamin Disraeli
Edict of Nantes
45. Influential to Darwin's theory - he thought that everything - including humans - produce MORE OFFSPRING than can survive due to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus
Marshall plan
Atlantic Charter
Red Russians
46. Germany - Italy - and Japan
X-Ray
Dual Monarchy
James Watt
Axis Powers
47. Organizations devoted to revolution. Created by radical COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS - including Marx.
Public Health Act
Giuseppe Mazzini
First and Second International
Greek Revolution
48. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
Sergei Witte
Edward Gibbon
Louis XIV
Panther
49. Worldwide struggle between France and Great Britain for power and control of land. Known in America as the French and Indian War.
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50. Piedmont - Italy defeated Austro-Hungarian empire and won their INDEPENDENCE.
Austro-Piedmontese War
Factory Act
Giuseppe Mazzini
English Civil War
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