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Independent Study Schedule: CLEP Western Civilization II --xiii -- Installing REA's TEST ware -- xiv -- Passing the CLEP Western Civilization II Exam -- xv -- About this Book and TEST ware -- xvii -- About the Exam -- xvii -- Format and Content of the CLEP -- xix -- About Our Course Review -- xx -- Scoring Your Practice Tests -- xx -- Practice-Test Raw Score Conversion Table -- xxi -- Studying for the CLEP -- xxii -- Day of the Exam -- xxiii -- Chapter 1 Absolutism, Constitutionalism, the Dutch Republic, and Russia -- 1 -- Absolutism: Philosophical Background -- 4 -- France and the Reign of Louis XIV -- 5 -- England: The Road to Constitutional Government -- 6 -- England's Civil War -- 7 -- Charles II, James II, and the Glorious Revolution -- 8 -- Dutch Republic -- 8 -- Peter the Great and the West -- 9 -- For Your Information -- 9 -- Chapter 2 Empires and Conflicts -- 11 -- First Global Wars -- 14 -- American Revolution -- 16 -- For Your Information -- 17 -- Chapter 3 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment -- 19 -- A Hall of Fame: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton -- 22 -- Faith and Science: Bacon, Descartes, Pascal, and Leibniz -- 23 -- Enlightenment -- 25 -- "Enlightened Despots": Catherine the Great, Frederick II, and Joseph II -- 29 -- For Your Information -- 30 -- Chapter 4 Industrial Revolution -- 31 -- Agriculture -- 33 -- Industry -- 34 -- Industrialization's Human Impact -- 35 -- Reform -- 35 -- For Your Information -- 37 -- Chapter 5 French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe -- 39 -- Coming of Revolution -- 43 -- Revolution: Part I -- 45 -- Revolution: Part II -- 46 -- Secularization -- 48 -- End of Revolution -- 48 -- Rise of Napoleon -- 49 -- International Consequences of the Revolution -- 50 -- Napoleon the General and Napoleonic Europe -- 51 -- For Your Information -- 53 -- Chapter 6 Conservatism, Liberalism, and Revolution -- 55 -- Defeating Napoleon -- 57 -- Rise of Conservatism and Liberalism -- 59 -- Nationalism -- 60 -- Revolutions -- 61 -- France: Revolution, Empire, and Defeat -- 62 -- Nation Building: Italy -- 64 -- Nation Building: Germany -- 66 -- For Your Information -- 67 -- Chapter 7 Second Industrial Revolution and Shifting Worldviews -- 69 -- Triumph of Industry -- 72 -- Urbanization -- 73 -- Modernization -- 74 -- For Your Information -- 78 -- Chapter 8 Imperialism, Nationalism, and Socialism -- 79 -- Imperialism -- 81 -- Nationalism -- 82 -- Setting the Stage for War -- 82 -- Hapsburg Empire -- 84 -- Socialism -- 85 -- For Your Information -- 88 -- Chapter 9 First World War -- 89 -- Origins of War -- 91 -- German Strategy and the Western Front -- 93 -- A Troubled Peace -- 94 -- War and Social Change -- 95 -- For Your Information -- 96 -- Chapter 10 Russian Revolution and the Early Soviet Union -- 97 -- Russian Revolution -- 100 -- Civil War and Its Aftermath -- 102 -- Stalin's Regime, 1927-1939 -- 103 -- Stalin and the Road to War -- 105 -- Chapter 11 Second World War -- 107 -- Road to War: Mussolini's Italy -- 110 -- Road to War: Hitler's Germany -- 111 -- First Year -- 113 -- Anglo-American Alliance -- 114 -- Strategy, the Russo-German War, and Victory -- 115 -- Holocaust -- 116 -- For Your Information -- 118 -- Chapter 12 Cold War -- 119 -- Beginnings of the Cold War: 1945-1949 -- 123 -- Globalization of the Cold War: 1950-1989 -- 124 -- Space Race -- 125 -- End of the Cold War -- 126 -- For Your Information -- 128 -- Chapter 13 Western Culture and Politics Since 1945 -- 129 -- Post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe -- 131 -- Decolonization -- 132 -- Social and Political Trends -- 133 -- Practice Test 1 -- 137 -- Test 1 -- 139 -- Practice Test 2 -- 193 -- Test 2 -- 195.