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29 Cards in this Set
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French Revolution
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Late 18th century France.
Peasants storm the Bastille, King and Queen were beheaded as well as hundreds of aristocrats. |
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Battle of Waterloo.
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Napoleon's downfall came in 1815 at the hands of the British near, Brussels, Belgium.
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William Harvey
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Discovered and demonstrated the circulation of blood.
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Peter the Great
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In 1682, he became czar of Russia.
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Juan ponce de leon
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year: 1513
Found : Florida and Mexico. |
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Pearl Harbor
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Dec. 7th 1941, Japan bombed pearl harbor naval base in Hawaii.
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. |
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Benito Mussolini
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1920's , became dictator of Italy. 1938 he invaded Ethiopia.
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Nazi Party
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Grew in strength by blaming the poor economic conditions on the Jews, and blaming others who were Nazi party traitors causing the Holocaust.
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Josef Stalin
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Climbed to power in Russia to try and industrialize the nation. He had a totalitarian government until his death in 1953.
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Hundred Year's War
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1337, King Edward II of England tried to claim the French throne through marriage.
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1400 a.d.
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Renaissance
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Year: 1497
Found: Northeast coast of south america. |
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Golden Age of Greece
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500 b.c. - 300 b.c.
People: Socrates Plato Aristotle |
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Crusades
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A.D. 1095
Christian Knights and soldiers battled for ownership of the Holy Land against the muslims. |
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Treaty of Versailles
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1918, ended the war and required Germany to dissolve its standing army.
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Vladimir Lenin
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Formed a Communist government and a classless society, called the Soviet Union.
Lenin died in 1924. |
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Industrial Revolution
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19th Century, factories were built in the larger cities, with mechanized assembly lines for mass production of goods.
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Karl Marx
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German author, who wrote about the terrible working conditions of the period and the flaws he saw in the capitalist system that created them.
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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Heir to the Austrian throne and his wife Sophie, visited Sarajevo, Bosnia in June 1914, the couple was assassinated, which caused WWI.
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1500's-1600's
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Enlightenment
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221-206 b.c.
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Chi'in Dynasty
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206 b.c.-220 a.d.
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Han Dynasty
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476 a.d.
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When did the Roman Empire fall?
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Bubonic Plague
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14th Century, was started by fleas carrying the disease on Rats going through towns.
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Martin Luther
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1517, A German monk, who made a list of complaints to the Catholic Church. And formed a new group called the "Protestants". This time was called the "Reformation".
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Buddhism
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Began in the 6th Century b.c.
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John Cabot
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Year: 1497
Found: East coast of Canada |
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Christopher Columbus
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Year: 1492
Found: Caribbean |
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Leif Ericson
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Year: 1000
Found:Newfoundland |
