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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Blaise Pascal
Marie Curie
Robert Koch
Soviet-Afghan War
2. The machine German's encrypted their battle plan codes on - which British broke and could foresee German battle plans.
Enigma
Peter the Great
Reform Bill
Holy Alliance
3. Puritan Leader of the Roundheads (parliamentarians) in the English Civil War. He was declared 'protector' of England - Ireland - and Scotland (like a king). After his death - the monarchy was restored.
Benito Mussolini
Battle of the Somme
Oliver Cromwell
Declaration of Pillnitz
4. First loss of a European power to an ASIAN COUNTRY.
Thermidorian Reaction
Russo-Japanese War
Potsdam
Holy Alliance
5. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Oliver Cromwell
Reform Bill
Continental System
6. 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.
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Leipzig
Fascist Party
'Turnip' Townsend
7. 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.
Adolf Eichmann
Panther
Napoleon
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
8. 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
Napoleon
Kronstadt
Central Powers.
9. 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
Emmanuel Sieyes
Boer War
Edmund Burke
Isaac Newton
10. 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
Paracelsus
Johannes Kepler
William and Catherine Booth
Joseph Stalin
11. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Continental System
Rene Descartes
Kulaks
Marshall plan
12. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
White Russians
Labour Party
Edmund Burke
Social Democratic Party
13. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
Friedrich Nietzsche
Easter Rising
14. Lasting from 1899 to 1902 - DUTCH colonists and the BRITISH competed for control of territory in South Africa.
Boer War
vanguard
Charles Albert
Benjamin Disraeli
15. Passed in 1832 - this controversial law gave the VOTE to middle class men in industrial cities - and gave them the right to be represented in PARLIAMENT. It abolished 'rotten boroughs -' sparsely populated areas that had representation.
Louis XIV
Reform Bill
Revolution from Above
Paracelsus
16. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
French Revolution of 1848
Andrew Carnegie
Absolutism
Bradenburg-Prussia
17. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Charles X
Bradenburg-Prussia
Emmeline Prankhurst
Paris Commune
18. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Triple Entente
Cecil Rhodes.
Petition of Rights
19. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Committee of Public Safety
Seven Weeks' War
Utilitarianism
Heinrich Himmler
20. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Pillnitz
Atlantic Charter
Rene Descartes
21. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. He dissected human cadavers. (1514-1564)
Marshall plan
Vesalius
Paris Commune
Benito Mussolini
22. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Dutch Republic
Adolf Eichmann
soviets
Sergei Witte
23. Peace treaty between Russia and Central Powers. Marked Russia's exit from war. Its harsh terms intensified the Allies' determination for victory.
Transcendentalists
Johannes Kepler
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Spanish-American War
24. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Vladimir Lenin
ancien regime
Congress of Vienna
Spanish Civil War
25. Britain and America
Emmanuel Sieyes
William and Catherine Booth
Catherine the Great
Allied Powers
26. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Red Russians
Emmeline Prankhurst
Thirty Years' War
27. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Georges Jacques Danton
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Nazi
Concert of Europe
28. French liberals who wanted the absolute monarchy; supported Charles X - wanted the ANCIEN REGIME
Stalingrad
ultraroyalists
Girondins
Emmanuel Sieyes
29. Idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the GREATEST NUMBER of people. Associated with JEREMY BENTHAM.
Galileo Galilei
Boer War
Utilitarianism
Directory
30. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Emelyn Pugachev
Revisionists
Zimmerman telegram
Eastern Question
31. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Gottfried Leibniz
Declaration of Pillnitz
Continental System
Warsaw Pact
32. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Easter Rising
Georges Jacques Danton
Robert Koch
Edict of Nantes
33. 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.
Volksgeist
Central Powers.
Third International
John Locke
34. 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.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Transcendentalists
Charles X
Louis Philippe I
35. A religious war between the Catholics and Protestants - which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states - the Dutch Republic - the Swiss Confederacy - the Austro-Hungarian Empire; granted religious freedom
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36. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
William and Catherine Booth
Kulaks
Black Shirt March
War of Austrian Succession
37. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Leipzig
Isaac Newton
John Rockefeller
Third International
38. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Thomas Malthus
Benjamin Disraeli
Warsaw Pact
Peter the Great
39. Wrote 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS' - advocated separation of powers with the three BRANCHES of legislative - judicial - and executive - plus checks and balances.
Committee of Public Safety
Declaration of Pillnitz
Charles Montesquieu
Emmanuel Sieyes
40. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
William and Catherine Booth
Quadruple Alliance
Gottfried Leibniz
41. 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
Easter Rising
Spanish Civil War
Gottfried Leibniz
Thomas Malthus
42. Finance minister who INDUSTRIALIZED Russia.
New Economic Policy
Boer War
Sergei Witte
Charles Montesquieu
43. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Atlantic Charter
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Marie Curie
Easter Rising
44. 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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Easter Rising
Seven Weeks' War
Robert Koch
45. French general who became EMPEROR of the French (1769-1821) Subtly became sole ruler of a country trying to become democratic. Claimed the title of FIRST CONSUL. Napoleon waged economic and literal war on England constantly. KING OF ITALY too.
Daimler and Benz
Edward Gibbon
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
Napoleon
46. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Robert Koch
Concert of Europe
Triple Entente
47. 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.
Adam Smith
Easter Rising
Austria-Hungary
Daimler and Benz
48. Perfected the INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - for cars.
Daimler and Benz
Petition of Rights
Paracelsus
Adolf Eichmann
49. 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.
British East India Company
Volksgeist
Frederick the Great
Warsaw Pact
50. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Battle of the Somme
Sir Francis Bacon
Emmeline Prankhurst
Frederick the Great