CLEP ULTIMATE Western Civilization II QUESTIONS AND CORRECT CERTIFIED ANSWERS 2023/2024

CLEP ULTIMATE Western Civilization II QUESTIONS AND CORRECT CERTIFIED ANSWERS 2023/2024 Treaty of Westphalia - correct answer -Ended the Thirty Years' Wars -Set stage for development of Modern Europe -rules given authority to determine the faith of the regions they ruled. -signaled decline of papacy influence -paved way for secularization. -recognized independence of Swiss Confederecy. Enlightened Despots - correct answer -Joseph II, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great -embraced principles of enlightenment, especially rationality, religious toleration, freedom of speech,private property. Robert Owen - correct answer -founder of Utopian socialism. -"no one was responsible for his will and his own actions because his whole character is formed independently of himself" -religion= ridiculous imagination. -yes to putting out system, no to factory system. What treaty did the Big Four of WWI negotiate? - correct answer Versailles Treaty was negotiated by_______. Before Napoleon became emperor he was... - correct answer ______ was first consul before he was emperor. Edmund Burke - correct answer -wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France. Conservatism originated from_______ _____'s writing. -believed society was a contract: temporary agreement between gov't and its citizens. Denounced French Revolution. New Economic Policy - correct answer allowed peasants to sell some of what they produced. Soviet-Afghan War - correct answer -Afghan fighters were provided with weapons by the US and China, Soviets withdrew completely from Afghan in 1989 -helped bring end of the Soviet Union. Countries formed after WW2 - correct answer Israel, by the United Nations. Sputnik - correct answer Soviet's first to launch a satellite in, 1956, called______ went into space. America panicked and built a spaceship. Reform Act of 1832 - correct answer favored industries. liberals - correct answer -did not support universal suffrage. -believed all people entitled to civil rights, did not support equal political rights. -did not want to share power with lower classes. -limit right to those who own property. Jeremy Bentham - correct answer -developed philosophy of utilitarianism. French Revolution - correct answer -Started from Tennis Court Oath in 1789 through Napolean giving up his throne in 1814 -Legal equality and justice brought to all social classes. -french society began to view people based on skill rather than family/birth. -many revolutionary ideals ended. -Ended feudalism and manorialism. -but, monarchy eventually restored. United Nations - correct answer -replaced League of Nations. -authorized a conflict against communist forces from N. Korea and China. -main purpose: pick up where the League left off. -origin of UN - Atlantic Charter.