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Winston Churchill (Who, what, when, where,)

British politician, Prime minister of Great Britain from 1940-45, and 1951-55.

Charles de Gaul (Who, what, when, where,)

French General, writer, statesman.head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–46). In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th President of France, until his resignation in 1969. Dominant figure of France during cold war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) (Who, what, when, where,)

34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army duringWorld War II

Franco, Francisco (Who, what, when, where,)

Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.

Paul von Hindenburg (Who, what, when, where,)

Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany (1925-34).

Adolf Hitler (Who, what, when, where,)

He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As effective dictator of Nazi Germany, Hitler was at the center of World War II in Europe, and the Holocaust.

Ho Chi Minh (Who, what, when, where,)

Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–55) and president (1945–69) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam(North Vietnam).

Kennedy, John F. (Who, what, when, where,)

American politician who served as the 35th President of the United Statesfrom January 1961 until his assassinationin November 1963. Notable events that occurred during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Nikita Khrushchev (Who, what, when, where,)

leader of the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Placed Nuclear missiles in Cuba, instigating the Cuban missile crisis.

V.I. Lenin

Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924.

DavidLloyd George

British Liberal politician and statesman. Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22) His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the First World War.

Nelson Mandella

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

Mao Zedong

Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Benito Mussolini

Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship

Nicholas II

The last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. Like other Russian Emperors he is commonly known by the monarchical title Tsar (though Russia formally ended the Tsardom in 1721). Nicholas II ruled from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917.

Gavrilo Princip

Bosnian Serb Nationalist (member of black hand) who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.leading Austria-Hungary to issue a démarche to Serbia known as the July Ultimatum. This was used as pretext for Austria-Hungary's invasion of Serbia, which then led to World War I.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the New Deal, involved the great expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy.

Joseph Stalin

The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920's until his death in 1953.

Leon Trotsky

Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR In office: 8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918

Harry S. Truman

33rd President of the United States (1945–53). As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the Allies successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.

Woodrow Wilson

28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and leader of the Progressive Movement.

“In laboring according to true principles for our Country we are laboring for Humanity” was the romantic and idealistic sentiment of:

Giuseppe Mazzini

The idea that the “sacrifice of different internal nationalities to the great nationality which embraces them all” would result in strengthening Europe’s greater nations was the optimistic and perhaps short-sighted view of:

Jules Michelet

Imperial competition among the European powers during the late 1800's was intensely and sometimes ruthlessly expressed in what is known as the:

Scramble for Africa.

Which of the following “-isms” steadily increased through the 1800s and became a major factor in precipitating the Great War?

Nationalism

The Dual Alliance of 1879 was a Prussian attempt to minimize or offset the threat of war with:

Russia

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 concerning the conduct of war were:

Fearfully aware of the destructiveness of modern war.

The Triple Entente that developed during the first decade of the 1900s was an alliance of:

Britain, France, Russia.

The lead-up to the Great War included a series of nationalist uprisings and unresolved military aggression in the:

Balkans.

The precipitating event that triggered the Great War was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand, by a:

Serb nationalist.

Britain entered the Great War in 1914 specifically because

Prussia had violated Belgian neutrality.

Adolph Hitler, along with most Germans of his time, believed the Versailles Treaty to have been

profoundly unjust.

Hitler’s attempt to imitate Mussolini’s “March on Rome” with his own march from Munich to Berlin in 1923 resulted in his

arrest and incarceration.

The Nazis were very effective in using

mass media propaganda.

According to historian Robert G. Moeller in Document #101, the large event that gave the Nazis their most powerful criticism of the democratic Weimar government was the

world economic crisis that began in 1929.

9 November 1938, “The Night of Broken Glass,” was the first open, public, and large-scale

Nazi persecution of Jews.

German military invasions of Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 provoked __________ from Britain and France.

little apparent opposition

The Potsdam Conference, of July-August 1945, divided defeated Germany into zones to be administered by the

four victorious Allied powers.

According to President Harry Truman in 1947, the United States was obligated to assist Greece become a

self-supporting democracy.

Andrei Vyshinsky criticized the Marshall Plan on the grounds that it was a

plan for American expansion in Europe.