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54 Cards in this Set
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Theodore Herzl
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20th century proponent of zionism
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Bolsheviks
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Russian Communist party
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Shiro Ishi
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Japanese lieutenant, bio warfare during 2nd Sino-japanese war
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Hirohito
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japanese emperor from 1926-1989
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Fritz Haber
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German chemist, synthesized
ammonia father of bio warfare |
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Kim Gu
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Last leader of a unified Korea
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Spanish Republicans
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communists
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Francisco Franco
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Spanish dictator and military general 20th cent.
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Vo Nguyen Giap
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Vietnamese officer in viet. Peoples army Commander in Vietnam war
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Heinrich von Trietschke
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a nationalist German historian and political writer during the time of the German Empire.
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Michael Faraday
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English electromagnetic physicist
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Pres during GDP, ended russo-japanese war, won nobel peace,
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Theodore Morrell
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Fuhrer Hitler’s personal doctor who injected him with amphetamines
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Kamenev
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Bolshevik revolutionary and soviet politician
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Gavrilo Princip
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Serbian who shot Franz Ferdinand to begin ww1 Black hand
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Franz Joseph
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king of Austria 1848 till 1916 accepts blank check, uncle of franz ferdinand
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Gary Powers
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Pilot who was shot down in Russia at 60,000 feet, lived but interrogated by KGB
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Thich Quang Duc
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Vietnamese Mahayana monk who burned himself to death in protest against the diem regime.
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Alexander Kerensky
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Pre lenin Russian leader/politician
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Heinrich Himmler
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leader of the German SS Organized slaughter of jews
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Mao Zedong
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First leader of the prc in 1949communist
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Jiang Jieshi
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Leader of the kuomengdang
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Leon Trotksy
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Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist idealist
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Whittlesey
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major who is lost in Argonne in lost batallion
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Zhang Xueliang
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Chinese warlord and military figure.
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Che Guevara
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Argentinan communist who teamed with castro to overthrow
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Nicholas II
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Last tsar of russia
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Cixi
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woman qing emperor 1861-1908
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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early leader of the american womens rights movement
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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an English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, which helped women win the right to vote.
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Puyi
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the last Emperor of China. He ruled in two periods between 1908 and 1917,
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Yuan Shikai
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an important Chinese general and politician famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the first President of the Republic of China,
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian.
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T.E. Lawrence
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British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-18
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Deng Xiaoping
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a Chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat.[1] As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng became a reformer who led China towards a market economy.
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Winston Churchill
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a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist.
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Sergei Kirov
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a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. 1st of December 1934, Kirov was shot and killed by a gunman at his offices in the Smolny Institute
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Sun Yat-sen
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a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the Father of the Nation. Sun played an instrumental role in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty in October 1911, the last imperial dynasty of China.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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led the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
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Mustapha Kemal
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a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first president.
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Nelson Mandela
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President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.
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black hand
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a military secret society founded in the Kingdom of Serbia on May 9, 1911. linked to assasination if franz ferdinand to begin wwi
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arthur harris
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british air commander during wwii
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Benito Mussolini
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an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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Wilhelm II
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the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 18 November 1918.
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was Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
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was Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
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William Westmoreland
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an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968, with the Tet Offensive. He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army.
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wild bill donovan
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was an American soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
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Claire Chennault
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an American military aviator. A contentious officer, he was a fierce advocate of "pursuit" or fight-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the U.S. Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment.
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Kulak
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category of relatively affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union
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Edward Teller
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Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb,"
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Frank kellogg
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American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Fidel Castro
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a Cuban politician. One of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then as the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008.
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Douglas MacArthur
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an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.
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