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| About the Author | |
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| About Research & Education Association | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note from the Author | |
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| Passing the CLEP College Western Civilization II Exam | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| The REA Study Center | |
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| An Overview of the Exam | |
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| All About the CLEP Program | |
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| Options for Military Personnel and Veterans | |
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| SSD Accommodations for Candidates with Disabilities | |
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| 6-Week Study Plan | |
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| Test-Taking Tips | |
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| The Day of the Exam | |
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| Online Diagnostic Test | |
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| Absolutism, Constitutionalism, the Dutch Republic, and Russia | |
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| Absolutism: Philosophical Background | |
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| France and the Reign of Louis XIV | |
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| England: The Road to Constitutional Government | |
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| England's Civil War | |
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| Charles II, James II, and the Glorious Revolution | |
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| The Dutch Republic | |
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| Peter the Great and the West | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| Empires and Conflicts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Global Wars | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Hall of Fame: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton | |
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| Faith and Science: Bacon, Descartes, Pascal, and Leibniz | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| "Enlightened Despots": Catherine the Great, Frederick II, and Joseph II | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| Industry | |
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| Industrialization's Human Impact | |
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| Reform | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background | |
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| The Coming of Revolution | |
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| Revolution: Part I | |
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| Revolution: Part II | |
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| Secularization | |
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| The End of Revolution | |
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| The Rise of Napoleon | |
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| International Consequences of the Revolution | |
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| Napoleon the General and Napoleonic Europe | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| Conservatism, Liberalism, and Revolution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defeating Napoleon | |
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| The Rise of Conservatism and Liberalism | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Revolutions | |
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| France: Revolution, Empire, and Defeat | |
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| Nation Building: Italy | |
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| Nation Building: Germany | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The Second Industrial Revolution and Shifting Worldviews | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Triumph of Industry | |
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| Urbanization | |
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| Modernization | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| Imperialism, Nationalism, and Socialism | |
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| Imperialism | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Setting the Stage for War | |
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| The Hapsburg Empire | |
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| Socialism | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The First World War | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins of War | |
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| German Strategy and the Western Front | |
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| A Troubled Peace | |
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| The War and Social Change | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The Russian Revolution and the Early Soviet Union | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Russian Revolution | |
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| Civil War and Its Aftermath | |
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| Stalin's Regime, 1927-1939 | |
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| Stalin and the Road to War | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Road to War: Mussolini's Italy | |
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| The Road to War: Hitler's Germany | |
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| The First Year | |
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| Anglo-American Alliance | |
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| Strategy, the Russo-German War, and Victory | |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Overview | |
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| Beginnings of the Cold War. 1945-1949 | |
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| Globalization of the Cold War: 1950-1989 | |
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| The Space Race | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| For Your Information | |
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| Western Culture and Politics Since 1945 | |
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| Post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe | |
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| Decolonization | |
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| Social and Political Trends | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Practice Test 1 (also available online at www.rea.com/studycenter) | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Detailed Explanations of Answers | |
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| Practice Test 2 (also available online at www.rea.com/studycenter) | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Detailed Explanations of Answers | |
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| Answer Sheets | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |