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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. Prime minister of Sardinia (northern Italy) who vowed to drive out the Austrians and worked towards a united Italy.
Louis XIV
Heinrich Himmler
Jacobins
Count Cavour
2. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Vladimir Lenin
Jacobins
Red Russians
Herbert Spencer
3. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Napoleon
Nazi
Assembly of Notables
4. Prussian king of the 18th century; attempted to introduce Enlightenment reforms into Germany; built on military and BUREAUCRATIC foundations of his predecessors; introduced freedom of religion; increased state control of economy. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Frederick the Great
Austro-Hungarian Empire
vanguard
Committee of Public Safety
5. Forefront - cutting edge - trailblazers of the revolution.
Charles Albert
'Turnip' Townsend
vanguard
Denis Diderot
6. Mussolini's rise to power. Thousands of followers marched on Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini prime minister. Then Fascists made all other political parties illegal.
Labour Party
Directory
Dulce et Decorum Est
Black Shirt March
7. Wrote THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. First ever history book to refer to history in strictly SECULAR terms. No God involved.
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Robert Koch
British East India Company
Edward Gibbon
8. 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.
John Locke
Charles Montesquieu
Bradenburg-Prussia
Marshall plan
9. Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
Assembly of Notables
Ottoman empire dissolved
White Russians
10. Alliance between Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary before WWI
Utilitarianism
Triple Alliance
Franz Ferdinand
The War of Jenkin's Ear
11. 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
Jacobins
Isaac Newton
Triple Alliance
Enclosure movement
12. 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.
Leipzig
Ptolemy
Battle of Adowa
Nikita Khrushchev
13. Lenin was forced to institute this policy - which allowed PEASANTS to SELL some of what they produced.
Legislative Assembly
New Economic Policy
Absolutism
Franco-Prussian War
14. Aka AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN War (1866) This war resulted from Bismarck wanting to isolate Austria from German affairs
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15. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Denis Diderot
Easter Rising
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Berlin Conference
16. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Factory Act
Francois Voltaire
Battle of Adowa
Committee of Public Safety
17. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Edict of Nantes
Thermidorian Reaction
Axis Powers
Directory
18. Weakness of instability of OTTOMAN rule in the Mediterranean region.
Eastern Question
Heinrich Himmler
Kulaks
Reform Bill
19. British political party. Liberals. Against the king.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Dual Monarchy
Whigs
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
20. 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
Frederick the Great
Joseph Stalin
'Turnip' Townsend
Enigma
21. JACOBIN French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794).
New Economic Policy
Kulaks
Georges Jacques Danton
Lusitania
22. Germany supported this country in keeping control of it's Slavic nationalistics - which put GERMANY at odds with RUSSIA - because they wanted Slavs free.
Third International
Austria-Hungary
James Watt
Denis Diderot
23. Divided AFRICA among the Europeans and contributed greatly to the SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Berlin Conference
Boer War
Copernicus
Ottoman empire dissolved
24. Napoleon waged economic war on Britain by preventing trade with it and providing for trade with France.
Ottoman empire dissolved
Dutch Republic
British East India Company
Continental System
25. From it emerged Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia - Hungary - and Austria.
Dual Monarchy
Marshall plan
Charles Albert
Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved
26. Agreement between Napoleon and Czar Alexander I in which Russia became an ally of France and Napoleon took over the lands of Prussia west of the Elbe as well as the Polish provinces.
Paris Commune
Edinburgh
Treaty of Tilsit
Fabian Society
27. Illiterate Cossack who started a mass REVOLT of serfs and peasants. Eventually captured - tortured - then executed
Triple Alliance
Seven Year's War
Vesalius
Emelyn Pugachev
28. Discovered in 1895 and led to questions about the nature of matter.
X-Ray
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
Kaiser Wilhelm I
29. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
Franco-Prussian War
Edinburgh
Axis Powers
Kulaks
30. Disastrous battle during which the British suffered 60 -000 casualties and had nothing to show for it.
Battle of the Somme
Allies
Potsdam
The War of Jenkin's Ear
31. 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.
Warsaw Pact
Thermidorian Reaction
Spanish Civil War
Transcendentalists
32. Greater freedom for Ireland.
Russian Revolution
Home Rule
Friedrich Nietzsche
Fabian Society
33. The end of the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN War. Alsace and Lorraine given to Germany.
Red Russians
Theodore Herzl
Treaty of Frankfurt
Crimean War
34. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Triple Entente
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Georges Jacques Danton
Johannes Kepler
35. New 'SECULAR' name for a month in summer.
Thermidor
fire at the Reichstag
Paracelsus
British East India Company
36. Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need to PROTECT COMMUNISM.
Red Russians
Brezhnev Doctrine
Daimler and Benz
Factory Act
37. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). Implemented by the ORGANIZATION FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Marshall plan
soviets
Free French
Seven Year's War
38. Important ZIONIST.
Blaise Pascal
Theodore Herzl
Final Solution
John F. Kennedy
39. Last German offensive on the Western Front in World War II. Its failure hastened German defeat.
Marie Curie
Battle of the Bulge
John F. Kennedy
Napoleon
40. The GREEKS revolted against the OTTOMANS for their independence.The Concert of Europe generally opposed to this.
Greek Revolution
Potsdam
Andrew Carnegie
Social Democratic Party
41. 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.
Spanish-American War
Bradenburg-Prussia
Nikita Khrushchev
Oliver Cromwell
42. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Third International
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Friedrich Nietzsche
Central Powers.
43. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
White Russians
Triple Alliance
Nazi
Leipzig
44. Founded the famous British RHODES SCHOLARS program for study in Oxford - England. He wanted students from colonies to study in England - then return and help the empire. RHODESIA (Zimbabwe) named after him.
Cecil Rhodes.
Boer War
William Gladstone
Austro-Piedmontese War
45. Head of the SS - in charge of extermination.
Heinrich Himmler
Bishop Bossuet
Oliver Cromwell
Allies
46. 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
Transcendentalists
Thermidorian Reaction
Kulaks
47. BOLSHEVIKS. Revolutionaries and communists.
Friedrich Nietzsche
James Watt
Red Russians
Directory
48. Austrian archduke who was assasinated by SERBIAN NATIONALISTS as the trigger of the FIRST WORLD WAR in 1914.
Adolf Eichmann
Marie Curie
Franz Ferdinand
Tories
49. Anti-Nazi - Anti-Vichy Regime French fighters who were led by CHARLES de GAULLE.
Free French
John Stuart Mill
Bradenburg-Prussia
Giuseppe Mazzini
50. 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.
Jacobins
Brezhnev Doctrine
Catherine the Great
Third International