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25 Cards in this Set
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Bosnian Rebel who starts WWI by assassination |
Gavrilo Peincip |
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English officer who convinced the Arabs to rebel against the Ottoman Empire during WWI
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Thomas Edward Lawrence |
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Led the Irish Republican Army and forced England to give up 3/4 of Ireland in 1921 |
Michael Collins |
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Fascist leader of Italy during WWII |
Benito Mussolini |
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Nazi leader of Germany |
Adolf Hitler |
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Leader of red army during Russian revolution & civil war |
Leon Trotsky |
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Brutal dictator of Soviet union through World War II through Cold War (killed 20 million of his own people) |
Joseph Stalin |
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Hindu warrior who uses civil disobedience (sitting in a diaper and starving himself) to protest against Britain being in India |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Bessemer process |
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Invented first functional steam engine |
James Watt |
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Invented process to cheaply turn iron into steel railroad tracks |
Henry Bessemer |
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Came up with interchangeable parts |
Eli Whitney |
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Iron chancellor of Germany who forces German countries to doing Prussia |
Otto Von Bismarck |
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English missionary to Africa and sent information about Africa back (butt loads of new information) |
David Livingston |
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Invented first printing press |
Johannes Gutenberg |
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Started Protestant reform nation with 95 thesis |
Martin Luther |
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Entrepreneur that pays for navigators to explore the world |
Henry the navigator |
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First to say America was a continent |
Amerigo Vespucci |
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First to circumnavigate the world |
Ferdinand Magellan |
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English enlightenment thinker who came up with the three big ideas about natural rights |
John Locke |
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French enlightenment thinker who thought of separation of powers |
Charles de Montesquieu |
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Invented freedom of speech and religion |
Voltaire |
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Swiss in lighten meant thinker who believed in the common good (giving up your natural rights to help the nation) |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Military dictator of England for 30 years who overthrew the king during the English Civil War |
Oliver Cromwell |
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King of England during the American Revolution |
King George III |
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Dictator of France during the American Revolution, in charge during Reign of terror |
Maximilien Robespierre |
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