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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Limited the power of Charles I of England. a) could not declare martial law; b) could not collect taxes; c) could not imprison people without cause; d) soldiers could not be housed without consent. First Parliamentary limit on the power of a king.
Petition of Rights
John Stuart Mill
Austro-Piedmontese War
Francois Voltaire
2. 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
Treaty of Frankfurt
Spanish Civil War
Daimler and Benz
Andrew Carnegie
3. 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
Korean War
Fascist Party
Battle of the Somme
4. OLD ORDER of kings who ruled absolutely.
fire at the Reichstag
Kronstadt
Cecil Rhodes.
ancien regime
5. NATIONAL SOCIALIST party in GERMANY.
White Russians
Girondins
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Nazi
6. 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
Edward Gibbon
Tories
Axis Powers
7. Declared GREECE independent and mandated a monarchy there.
Franz Ferdinand
Adam Smith
Treaty of London
Chartist Movement
8. Thousands of Russians marched on the Winter Palace. Nicholas II gave up power. A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT was set up - and immediately social reforms took place.
Charles Montesquieu
Franco-Prussian War
Seven Year's War
Russian Revolution
9. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Dual Monarchy
Social Democratic Party
Emmanuel Sieyes
Edward Gibbon
10. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revisionists
Absolutism
Black Shirt March
11. 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.
British East India Company
New Economic Policy
French Revolution of 1848
Tories
12. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Triple Alliance
Charles Montesquieu
Cecil Rhodes.
Directory
13. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Volksgeist
Quadruple Alliance
Holy Alliance
14. The Soviets invade Afghanistan - many people support Afghanistan through the context of the Cold War and to prevent the spread of Communism.
Vesalius
Soviet-Afghan War
New Economic Policy
Frederick the Great
15. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
First and Second International
Sir Francis Bacon
Continental System
Axis Powers
16. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
White Russians
Nikita Khrushchev
Dual Monarchy
Spanish-American War
17. This was the empress of Russia who continued Peter's goal to Westernizing Russia - created a new law code - and greatly expanded Russia. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT who wrote to Voltaire and Diderot and questioned capital punishment and serfdom.
Catherine the Great
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Lusitania
Edict of Nantes
18. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Lateran Pact
Paris Commune
Holy Alliance
19. 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.'
Spanish Civil War
Bishop Bossuet
Thirty Years' War
Revisionists
20. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
soviets
Allies
Lenin and Trotsky
William Gladstone
21. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
White Russians
William and Catherine Booth
Dual Monarchy
Ottoman empire dissolved
22. A Jewish British prime minister.
Sir Francis Bacon
Red Russians
Benjamin Disraeli
X-Ray
23. Stalin's successor - wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev - France and Great Britain in Geneva - Switzerland in July - 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved.
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet-Afghan War
Francois Voltaire
Congress of Vienna
24. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Ferdinand VII
Final Solution
Isaac Newton
25. A member of a British political party - founded in 1689 - that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. Fond of kings and against revolution.
Tories
Holy Alliance
Utilitarianism
Daimler and Benz
26. Mutiny of Russia's fleet took place here.
Louis Philippe I
Committee of Public Safety
Kronstadt
Adam Smith
27. The place at which the three allied leaders - Truman - Stalin - and Atlee - met to discuss the distribution of Germany and the ultimatum that they would issue to Japan demanding thier immediate surrender
Potsdam
Edinburgh
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Jacobins
28. A military draft
Oliver Cromwell
conscription
French Revolution of 1848
John Stuart Mill
29. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Nikita Khrushchev
Third International
Legislative Assembly
Secularization
30. LIBERALS and Monarchists. All those opposed to the Russian Revolution.
Reform Bill
White Russians
Edward Gibbon
Ferdinand VII
31. Invented the STEAM ENGINE - which led to steam powered cotton mills - and the railroad.
Franz Ferdinand
James Watt
Assembly of Notables
Georges Jacques Danton
32. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
Whigs
Third International
Zimmerman telegram
33. 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
Battle of the Somme
Francois Voltaire
Adolf Eichmann
James Watt
34. GOD IS DEAD. Hated self sacrifice - emphasized a 'will to power.' A minority of the strongest should rule.
Adolf Eichmann
Friedrich Nietzsche
Giueseppe Garibaldi
British East India Company
35. Ship sunk by GERMAN UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE on all ships headed for Britain. This caused Americans to enter the war.
Dutch Republic
Allies
Lusitania
Edinburgh
36. Monopolized more than 75% of U.S. oil.
John Rockefeller
Axis Powers
Revisionists
Dutch Republic
37. 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.
Fabian Society
Concert of Europe
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Third International
38. Developed CALCULUS dependently and at the same time as Pascal.
Vladimir Lenin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gottfried Leibniz
Berlin Conference
39. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Chartist Movement
Steel
Triple Alliance
Joseph Stalin
40. Document that helped create the UNITED NATIONS.
Atlantic Charter
Battle of the Bulge
Legislative Assembly
Sergei Witte
41. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
The Glorious Revolution
Continental System
Heinrich Himmler
Spanish-American War
42. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Revolution from Above
Allies
William Gladstone
Joseph Stalin
43. Discovered radium.
Marie Curie
James Watt
Absolutism
Copernicus
44. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Robert Koch
Utilitarianism
Johannes Kepler
Seven Weeks' War
45. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Giuseppe Mazzini
James Watt
Revisionists
Dual Monarchy
46. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Seven Year's War
Treaty of London
Treaty of Frankfurt
Absolutism
47. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Joseph II
Leipzig
The Glorious Revolution
John Stuart Mill
48. Germany - Italy - and Japan
Battle of the Somme
Axis Powers
Emelyn Pugachev
Russo-Japanese War
49. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Frederick the Great
Heinrich Himmler
Panther
Triple Alliance
50. 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.
Directory
Cecil Rhodes.
Lenin and Trotsky
Oliver Cromwell