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| Queen of Great Britain from 1702 - 1714; daughter of James II; last Stewart sovereign | Queen Anne | Saxon King of England 871 - 899; resisted Danish invaders and helped build a strong monarchy | Alfred the Great | Wife of James I of England (James VI Scotland) | Anne of Denmark
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| Archbishop of Canterbury that was assassinated in Canterbury Catherdral because of differences with Henry II | Becket | Wrote "Commentaries on the Laws of England" which was the first comprehensive description of the principles of English law | Blackstone | British Prime Minister who negotiated the Munich Pact with Germany in 1938 in hopes to avoid war; claimed the pact had secured peace for our time; political enemies; call his tactics "appeasement" | Chamberlain
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| King of Great Britain 1625 - 1649; executed for treason in 1649 | Charles I | British Prime Minister 1940 - 45 and 1951 - 55; including WWII said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." and coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" | Churchhill | English political leader who lead the Parliament Army to victory over King Charles I in the English Civil War and emerged as the ruler of the nation; held title Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, the restoration of the King occurred after his death | Cromwell
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| Queen of England 1558 - 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Bolin; called the Virgin Queen because she was never married | Elizabeth I | Present Queen of Britain 1952 - | Elizabeth II | King of Britain during the American Revolutionary War | George III
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| Four time Prime Minister 1868 - 1894 | Gladstone | British Revolution in 1688 in which King James II was deposed and the crown was given jointly to William II and his wife Mary II | The Glorious Revolution | Made himself head of the English Church after being excommunicated by the Pope in 1535 | Henry VIII
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| Succeeded Richard the Lionhearted in 1199: was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 at Runneymede. The Magna Carta limited royal power | King John | British Prime Minister from 1916 - 1922 who attended the conference that produced the Treaty of Versailles; Opposed President Wilson and wanted to severely punish Germany for her actions in WWI | George | British General who led the British forces in WWII; defeated Rommel's German forces in North Africa | Montgomery
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| 12th Century English King who fought in the Crusades; succeeded by King John | Richard the Lionhearted | Became first woman Prime Minister in 1979 | Thatcher | Queen of Britain from 1837 - 1901; was married to Prince Albert; longest rain of any British King or Queen | Victoria
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| First Prime Minister of Britain from 1721 - 1742 | Walpole | William III and Mary II ruled jointly after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 | William and Mary | Duke of Normandy who led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings; King of England from 1066 - 1087 | William the Conquerer
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| Catherine of Aragon, Anne Bolin, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr | Henry VIII's wives | First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 - 1963 | Adenauer | A compromise between Protestant and Catholic representatives stating that the Prince of the Region has the right to determine their subjects' faith and enforce religious uniformity | Peace of Augsburg
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| Largest Nazi Concentration Camp during WWII | Auschwitz | First Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871 - 1890, known as the Iron Chancellor | Bismark | Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 - 1974 | Brandt
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| Nazi propaganda minister during WWII | Goebbells | Leader of the Nazi Luftwaffe Air Force dureing WWII | Goering | Organizer of the Nazi elite forces (SS) and the secret police (Gestapo) | Himmler
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| Austrian born German political leader and founder of teh Nazi party; title: der Fuhrer; Supervised teh murder of more than 6 million Jews during the Holocaust; began WWII by invading Poland in 1929; autobiography "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) | Hitler | Posted his 95 theses (1517) detailing church abuses on the door of a church in Wittenberg; this started the Reformation in Germany; was excommunicated in 1520 by Pope Leo X | Luther | Founder of Marxism which is the fundamental theory of communism; Wrote the "Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Enelgs; also wrote "Das Capital" | Marx
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| German military commander who was known as the Desert Fox | Rommell | Nazi minister of architecture during WWII | Speer | 12th century theologian famous for his love affair with Heloise and the work "Sic et Non" (yes and no) | Abelard
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| Arch commemorating Napoleon's victories; designed by Jean Chalgrin | Arc de Triomphe | Elected King of France in 987; the Capetian dynasty ruled until 1328 | Capet | French Premier at the end of WWI; French representative for the Treaty of Versailles peace conference | Clemenceau
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| President of France (1945-46; 1958-69); started the Free French movement in WWII | De Gaille | His affair was a scandal in France regarding this Jewish army officer. He was falsely accused of betraying French military secrets; was later reinstated in the army. Emile Zola's book "J'accuse (I accuse) centers on his mistreatment. | Dreyfus | Event beginning in 1789 agains King Louis XVI, Storming of the Bastille occurred on July 14, 1789 and was the first act of the revolution. A constitutional monaarcy was sest up and King Louis XVI and Marie Antionette were guillotined; | French Revolution
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| Control then passed to Robespierre (leaded of the committee of Public Safety) and other radical Jacobins, and the reign of terror followed (1793-4); Robespierre was executed in 1794, and the Directory came into power; | French Revolution | The Directory's lack of power allowed Napoleon to rise to pwer and emerge as dictator in 1799 | French Revolution | King of France (1589-1610); well loved monarch that established religious tolerance in his country | Henry IV
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| Led French against English during the Hundred Years War; was captured by Burgundians (1430) and was turned over to the English who burned her at the stake as a witch (1431) | Joan of Arc | French King (1610 - 1643) who was greatly influenced by his chief minister Cardinal Richelieu | Louis XIII | The Sun King of France (1643-1715) built Versailles palace; Said, "I am the State" Ministers Mazarin and Colbert strengthened France economically | Louis XIV
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| Last king of France (1774 - 92) before the revolution | Louis XVI | King of France (1830-48); the revolution of 1848 led to his abdication | Louis Phillipe | Leader of the Jacobins who was stabbed to death in his bathtub | Marat
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| French queen who was beheaded on the guillotine during the revolution with her husband, Louis XVI; Said, "Let them eat cake." | Mare Antoinette | Corsican-born general who became emperor of France in 1804; helped engineer the coup d'etat in 1799; after the coup, he established the conulsate and named himself head making himself dictator; married to Josephine in 1795. | Napoleon I | Divorced Josephine and married Marie Louise in 1809; abdicated in 1814 and was exiled to Elba; escaped Elba in March, 1815 and ruled for the Hundred Days before his defeat at Waterloo. After Waterloo, he was exiled to St. Helena and died in 1821 | Napoleon I
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| Emperor of France (1852-70); nephew of Napoleon I who came to power as president in 1848; then staged a coup, making himself emperor | Napoleon III | Head of the Vichy Govt in France (1940-44) | Petain | Govt of France after Germain occupation at the beginning of WWII | Vichy Government
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