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70 Cards in this Set
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Jethro Tull invented the steel plow. |
seed drill
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Who led Arab revolts against Turkish rule in the Arabian Peninsula?
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T.E. Lawrence
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Who founded the Fabian Society?
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George Bernard Shaw
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What area was colonized by Dutch farmers known as Boers?
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South Africa
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What battle forced the German fleet to return to its home ports and remain there for the duration of the war?
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Battle of Jutland
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Who invented the spinning mule?
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Samuel Crompton
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Who developed the germ theory of disease?
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Louis Pasteur
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Whose death caused the beginning of WW I?
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Archduke Ferdinand
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What was the largest British offensive in the East during WW I?
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Gallipoli Campaign
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Who was Britain's longest reigning monarch?
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Victoria
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What country was NOT represented by the Big Four at the Versailles Peace Conference?
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Germany
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What was the uprising of native Indian soldiers against the British East India company?
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Sepoy Rebellion
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"Father of Nuclear Science"
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Ernest Rutherford
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In what year did the French Revolution begin?
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1789
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Who invented the first practical steamship?
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Robert Fulton
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Which war gave the United States control of Cuba and the Philippines?
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Spanish-American War
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Who created the modern nursing profession?
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Florence Nightingale
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Who formed the Soviet Union in 1922?
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Vladimir Lenin
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Name one of the two American army doctors who worked to eliminate yellow fever?
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Walter Reed, William Gorgas
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What act made Canada a self-governing commonwealth?
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British North America Act
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Who was the president of the United States during WW I?
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Woodrow Wilson
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designed the dirigible
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Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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American "ace" pilot
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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missionary to India
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Amy Carmichael
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French Field Marshal
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Ferdinand Foch
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missionary to Africa
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David Livingstone
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commander of the American Expeditionary Forc
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John J. Pershing
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developed the quantum theory of matter and energy
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Max Planck
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made the first successful airplane flight
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Wilbur Wright
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supreme commander of all Central Powers forces
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Paul von Hindenburg
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theorized that a mosquito carries yellow fever
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Carlos Finlay
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Peter the Great was the first Russian czar. |
Ivan the Terrible
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Josephine was Napoleon's second wife. |
Marie Louise
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The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. |
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Armistice Day is now celebrated as Veteran's Day in the United States. |
True
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The word Proletariat refers to the middle class. |
bourgeoisie
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The American pastor D.L. Moody preached "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God." |
Jonathan Edwards
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Sir Humphrey Davy invented the miner's safety lamps. |
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Vancouver was the first permanent French settlement in North America. |
Quebec
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G.W.F. Hegel introduced the idea of dialectical reasoning. |
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prime minister known as "The Grand Old Man"
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William Gladstone
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taught the philosophy of idealism
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Immanuel Kant
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English philosopher who promoted empiricism
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John Locke
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defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
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Duke of Wellington
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French minister of finance
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
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world's greatest naval hero
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Lord Nelson
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responsible for the Reign of Terror
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Maximilien Robespierre
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"Father of French Romanticism"
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Who founded the London police force?
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Robert Peel
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Who was the editor of the Encyclopedia?
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Denis Diderot
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Name three countries which formed the Triple Entente.
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France, Great Britain, Russia
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Who established the Moravian settlement of Herrnhut?
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Count von Zinzendorf
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Who invented the assembly-line process?
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Henry Ford
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Who was Karl Marx's close friend and co-author of the Communist Manifesto?
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Friedrich Engels
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What radio station was the first commercial broadcasting station to go on the air?
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KDKA
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Who was the Russian empress who embraced Western ideas?
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Catherine the Great
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Who was the most famous evangelist of the Great Awakening?
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George Whitefield
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Who developed the theories of relativity?
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Albert Einstein
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What was the name of the secret police organization created by Lenin?
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Cheka
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Who is the best remembered agricultural scientist in America?
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George Washington Carver
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What was NOT part of Stalin's Five-Year plan?
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form of state capitalism to strengthen the economy
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Which war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht?
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War of Spanish Succession
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Who wrote The Gulag Archipelago?
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Which king was executed during the French Revolution?
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Louis XVI
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Which king said "After me the deluge"?
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Louis XV
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Who is called the "Father of New France"?
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Samuel de Champlain
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Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat?
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Battle of Waterloo
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Who succeeded James I as ruler of England?
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Charles I
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Who came to the English throne by the Glorious Revolution?
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William III
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The Bolshevik Revolution began when?
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November 25, 1917
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