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CLEP Western Civilization II
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1. 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.
Joseph II
Blaise Pascal
Andrew Carnegie
First and Second International
2. Russia - France - and Britain during WWI.
Franco-Prussian War
Allies
Robert Koch
Galileo Galilei
3. (1807-1882) Soldier of fortune who amassed his 'RED SHIRT' army to bring Naples and Sicily into a unified Italy.
Austria-Hungary
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treaty of Frankfurt
Giueseppe Garibaldi
4. Hitler blamed this event on communists and gave himself an excuse to take COMPLETE POWER of Germany.
Vesalius
fire at the Reichstag
Cecil Rhodes.
Herbert Spencer
5. Discovered radium.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Marie Curie
Kulaks
Allies
6. The Quadruple Alliance - Russia - Prussia - Austria - and Britain...plus France - to prevent France's resentment towards the victors.
Edict of Nantes
Concert of Europe
Ottoman empire dissolved
John Stuart Mill
7. From it emerged Turkey - Syria - Iran - and Iraq.
Emmanuel Sieyes
Ottoman empire dissolved
soviets
Benito Mussolini
8. A military draft
Volksgeist
conscription
Thermidorian Reaction
Spanish-American War
9. In 1884 - this British prime minister passed the REFORM ACT - which gave the vote to 60 percent of British men.
Ptolemy
North German Confederation
Ottoman empire dissolved
William Gladstone
10. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Axis Powers
Third International
Enigma
Absolutism
11. The leaders under Robespierre who organized the defenses of France - conducted foreign policy - and centralized authority during the period 1792-1795. REIGN OF TERROR.
Transcendentalists
Charles Albert
Committee of Public Safety
Austro-Hungarian Empire
12. Overthrew the provisional government in Russia in 1917 - made null the democratic reforms - and established a dictatorship.
Lenin and Trotsky
Berlin Conference
Reform Bill
Count Cavour
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.
Treaty of Paris
Adolf Eichmann
Declaration of Pillnitz
Transcendentalists
14. Important Russian radical who was a member of secret - exiled - SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTIES in Russia - which was ruled by a tsar.
Ferdinand VII
New Economic Policy
Public Health Act
Vladimir Lenin
15. Nazi war criminal who lived in hiding in Argentina for years before her was captured. HANNAH ARENDT argued in her book - 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' that he seemed hardly demonic.
Denis Diderot
Adolf Eichmann
Emmeline Prankhurst
Lusitania
16. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charles X
Absolutism
Directory
17. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I THINK THEREFORE I AM'). Wrote about concept of dualism.
Franco-Prussian War
Whigs
Sir Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
18. Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872) YOUNG ITALY - and RISORGIMENTO movements.
Axis Powers
Giuseppe Mazzini
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Napoleon
19. 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.
Denis Diderot
Gottfried Leibniz
Volksgeist
Thomas Malthus
20. 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.
Stalingrad
Reform Bill
Benito Mussolini
Enigma
21. Conservative king who was revolted against in SPAIN. He ignored Spain's constitution and disbanded the parliament.
Ferdinand VII
Lenin and Trotsky
John Locke
Girondins
22. LIBERAL who wrote the popular work 'ON LIBERTY'
Robert Koch
Absolutism
John Stuart Mill
Franz Ferdinand
23. 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).
Lateran Pact
Thirty Years' War
Austro-Piedmontese War
Georges Jacques Danton
24. 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
Count Cavour
Zimmerman telegram
John Stuart Mill
Transcendentalists
25. Developed the SCIENTIFIC METHOD through the INDUCTIVE method (specific to general) - wrote Novum Organum.
Soviet-Afghan War
William and Catherine Booth
Sir Francis Bacon
Austro-Piedmontese War
26. Edited and published the first edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA. It was a ENLIGHTENED PERSON's BIBLE. He also attacked religion and conservatives.
Crimean War
Denis Diderot
Boer War
Declaration of Pillnitz
27. Austrian and Prussian emperor declared that they would declare war on France if the ROYAL FAMILY was harmed.
Rene Descartes
Korean War
Giuseppe Mazzini
Declaration of Pillnitz
28. 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
Edict of Nantes
Joseph Stalin
Stalingrad
Directory
29. Civil conflict caused by Irish nationalists in the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY against the British Empire - led by EAMON de VALERA.
British East India Company
Volksgeist
Easter Rising
Public Health Act
30. People - such as EDUARD BERNSTEIN - who believed that COMMUNISM could be achieved slowly and through democratic means.
Assembly of Notables
Revisionists
Francois Voltaire
Red Russians
31. Local communist councils established throughout Russia.
Tories
soviets
Transcendentalists
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
32. Treaty of non-aggression between Russian and Germany during WW2 to keep it a one front war for Germany. Also called the NAZI-SOVIET PACT.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
John Rockefeller
Congress of Vienna
Dulce et Decorum Est
33. An association of British socialists who advocate gradual evolutionary reforms within the law leading to democratic SOCIALISM.
Sergei Witte
Fabian Society
Seven Weeks' War
Blaise Pascal
34. Farmers who resisted COLLECTIVIZATION and were labeled enemies of Stalin. All were executed.
New Economic Policy
Kulaks
William and Catherine Booth
Edict of Nantes
35. In 1898 - a conflict between the United States and Spain - in which the U.S. supported the CUBANS' fight for INDEPENDENCE.
Spanish-American War
First and Second International
Crimean War
Theodore Herzl
36. Led by Danton - a temporary government set up by SANS-CULOTTES that began executing anti-revolutionaries.
Paris Commune
Bradenburg-Prussia
X-Ray
Frederick the Great
37. Isolated the TUBERCULOSIS bacillus.
Cecil Rhodes.
Vladimir Lenin
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Koch
38. ETHIOPIA beat off Italy's invasion of their country in this battle. Italy was the only European nation to have been defeated by Africans in war.
Battle of Adowa
Continental System
James Watt
Legislative Assembly
39. 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.'
ancien regime
Thermidor
Allies
Bishop Bossuet
40. German Lutheran astronomer - discovered that the paths of the planets around the sun are ELLIPTICAL rather that circular.
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Seven Weeks' War
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
41. Emperor of the Austrian Empire who controlled the Catholic Church closely - granted religious toleration and civic rights to Protestants and Jews - and abolished serfdom. ENLIGHTENED DESPOT.
Joseph II
Giueseppe Garibaldi
Tories
Dutch Republic
42. Germany - Austria-Hungary - Bulgaria - and Ottoman Empire ALLIED during WWI
Eastern Question
Central Powers.
Whigs
Jacobins
43. Legislative body of 5 men after Thermidorian Reaction - UNSTABLE.
Vladimir Lenin
Eastern Question
Directory
Austro-Hungarian Empire
44. 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
William Gladstone
The Glorious Revolution
Brezhnev Doctrine
Easter Rising
45. RUSSIA - PRUSSIA - AUSTRIA - AND BRITAIN banded together to defeat the tyrant Napoleon.
Treaty of Tilsit
Committee of Public Safety
Quadruple Alliance
Catherine the Great
46. Where Napoleon eventually met his defeat. He then was exiled to Elba.
Joseph Stalin
Leipzig
Louis XIV
Declaration of Pillnitz
47. Formulated SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Spanish Civil War
Utilitarianism
James Watt
Herbert Spencer
48. The process by which religious beliefs - practices - and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture.
Treaty of Tilsit
conscription
Fabian Society
Secularization
49. 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of worship. Revoked by Louis XIV in 1658. He chased the HUGUENOTS out of the country.
Stalingrad
Edict of Nantes
ultraroyalists
Zimmerman telegram
50. AUSTRIA and HUNGARY. Ruled by Francis Joseph of the Hapsburg empire from 1848 to 1916.
Adolf Eichmann
Dual Monarchy
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Legislative Assembly