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54 Cards in this Set

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Theodore Herzl
20th century proponent of zionism
Bolsheviks
Russian Communist party
Shiro Ishi
Japanese lieutenant, bio warfare during 2nd Sino-japanese war
Hirohito
japanese emperor from 1926-1989
Fritz Haber
German chemist, synthesized
ammonia father of bio warfare
Kim Gu
Last leader of a unified Korea
Spanish Republicans
communists
Francisco Franco
Spanish dictator and military general 20th cent.
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnamese officer in viet. Peoples army Commander in Vietnam war
Heinrich von Trietschke
a nationalist German historian and political writer during the time of the German Empire.
Michael Faraday
English electromagnetic physicist
Theodore Roosevelt
Pres during GDP, ended russo-japanese war, won nobel peace,
Theodore Morrell
Fuhrer Hitler’s personal doctor who injected him with amphetamines
Kamenev
Bolshevik revolutionary and soviet politician
Gavrilo Princip
Serbian who shot Franz Ferdinand to begin ww1 Black hand
Franz Joseph
king of Austria 1848 till 1916 accepts blank check, uncle of franz ferdinand
Gary Powers
Pilot who was shot down in Russia at 60,000 feet, lived but interrogated by KGB
Thich Quang Duc
Vietnamese Mahayana monk who burned himself to death in protest against the diem regime.
Alexander Kerensky
Pre lenin Russian leader/politician
Heinrich Himmler
leader of the German SS Organized slaughter of jews
Mao Zedong
First leader of the prc in 1949communist
Jiang Jieshi
Leader of the kuomengdang
Leon Trotksy
Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist idealist
Whittlesey
major who is lost in Argonne in lost batallion
Zhang Xueliang
Chinese warlord and military figure.
Che Guevara
Argentinan communist who teamed with castro to overthrow
cuba
Nicholas II
Last tsar of russia
Cixi
woman qing emperor 1861-1908
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
early leader of the american womens rights movement
Emmeline Pankhurst
an English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, which helped women win the right to vote.
Puyi
the last Emperor of China. He ruled in two periods between 1908 and 1917,
Yuan Shikai
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,
Henry Cabot Lodge
was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian.
T.E. Lawrence
British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-18
Deng Xiaoping
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.
Winston Churchill
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.
Sergei Kirov
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
Sun Yat-sen
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.
Nikita Khrushchev
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.
Mustapha Kemal
a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first president.
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.
black hand
a military secret society founded in the Kingdom of Serbia on May 9, 1911. linked to assasination if franz ferdinand to begin wwi
arthur harris
british air commander during wwii
Benito Mussolini
an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
Wilhelm II
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.
was Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
was Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II
William Westmoreland
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.
wild bill donovan
was an American soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Claire Chennault
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.
Kulak
category of relatively affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb,"
Frank kellogg
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
Fidel Castro
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.
Douglas MacArthur
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.