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WH2 People to Know
You must know these people to pass your SOL
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jesus of Nazareth | Christian, Savior, Founder |
| Muhammad | Prophet, Islam |
| Siddartha Gautama | Founder, Buddhism |
| Asoka | Missionary, Buddhism |
| Michelangelo | Artist, Renaissance, Sistine Chapel |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Artist, Renaissance Man, Last Supper |
| Shakespeare | Playwright, England |
| Erasmus | Humanist, Reformer, In Praise of Folly |
| Martin Luther | Protestant, Reform, 95 Theses |
| John Calvin | Protestant, Predestination |
| Henry VIII | Divorce, England, Anglican Church |
| Queen Elizabeth I | England, Queen, Anglican Church |
| Cardinal Richelieu | Prime Minister, France, 30 Years War |
| Jan Huss | Early Reformer, Burned |
| John Wycliffe | Reformer, England, Translated Bible |
| Johann Gutenberg | German, Printing Press |
| Copernicus | Astronomy, Heliocentric, Poland |
| Johannes Kepler | Math, Astronomy, Elliptical Orbit |
| Galileo Galilei | Astronomer, Telescope, Trial |
| Isaac Newton | Gravity, Motion, Laws |
| William Harvey | Doctor, Blood, Circulation |
| Thomas Hobbes | Enlightenment, Leviathan, Absolute Monarchs |
| John Locke | Life, Liberty, Property |
| Montesquieu | Legislative, Executive, Judicial |
| Rousseau | Enlightenment, Social Contract |
| Voltaire | Enlightenment, Freedom of Religion |
| Thomas Jefferson | Enlightenment, Declaration of Independence |
| Vasco da Gama | Portugal, Explorer, India |
| Columbus | Spain, Explorer, "Discovered Americas" |
| Hernando Cortez | Conquistador, Spain, Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquistador, Spain, Incas |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Spain, Circumnavigate, Killed |
| Francis Drake | England, Explorer, Circumnavigate |
| Jacques Cartier | French, Explorer, Canada |
| Louis XIV | France, Versailles, Absolute Monarch |
| Peter the Great | Russia, Czar, Westernization |
| Oliver Cromwell | England, Civil War, Lord Protector |
| Charles I | England, Civil War, Executed |
| Charles II | England, King, Restoration |
| William & Mary | England, Glorious Revolution, Co-Rulers |
| Louis XVI | France, King, Guillotine |
| Napoleon | Emperor, Code, Nationalism |
| Father Hidalgo | Mexico, Priest, Independence |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | Haiti, Slave, Revolution |
| Simon Bolivar | Creole, Latin American Independence |
| President Monroe | USA, Doctrine, Policy |
| J.S. Bach | Music, Baroque, Composer |
| W.A. Mozart | Music, Classical, Composer |
| Eugene Delacroix | France, Painter, Liberty Leading the People |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Spain, Writer, Don Quixote |
| James Watt | Inventor, Steam Engine |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor, Cotton Gin |
| Henry Bessemer | Inventor, Steel Process |
| Edward Jenner | Doctor, Smallpox Vaccine |
| Louis Pasteur | Medicine, Germ Theory, Bacteria |
| Adam Smith | Economist, Capitalism, Wealth of Nations |
| Karl Marx | Economy, Communist Manifesto |
| Count Cavour | Northern Italy, Unify, Nationalism |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Southern Italy, Unify, Nationalism |
| Otto von Bismarck | Germany, Unify, Realpolitik |
| Matthew Perry | USA, Commodore, Opened Japan to Trade |
| Archduke Ferdinand | Austria-Hungary, Assassinated, WWI |
| Woodrow Wilson | USA, WW1, 14 Points |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Germany, WW1, Kaiser |
| Tsar Nicholas II | Russia, Tsar, Russian Revolution |
| Vladimir Lenin | USSR, Bolshevik, New Economic Policy |
| Joseph Stalin | USSR, Dictator, Great Purge |
| Adolf Hitler | Germany, Nazi, Fuhrer |
| Benito Mussolini | Italy, Fascism, Glory of Rome |
| Emperor Hirohito | Japan, Emperor, WW2 |
| Hideki Tojo | Japan, Dictator, Pearl Harbor |
| FDR | USA, WW2, New Deal |
| Harry Truman | USA, WW2, Atomic Bomb |
| Dwight Eisenhower | USA, WW2, General, European Theater |
| Douglas MacArthur | USA, WW2, General, Pacific Theater |
| George Marshall | USA, General, Plan |
| Winston Churchill | Great Britain, WW2, Prime Minister |
| Pol Pot | Cambodia, Dictator, Genocide |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | China, Nationalist, Fled to Taiwan |
| Mao Zedong | China, Communist, Wins Civil War |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnam, Communist, Leader |
| Indira Gandhi | India, Prime Minister, Closer to USSR |
| Margaret Thatcher | Great Britain, Prime Minister, Iron Lady |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR, Glasnost, Perestroika |
| Deng Xiaoping | China, Communist, Reform |
| Mohanda Gandhi | India, Independence, Nonviolence |
| Nehru | India, Independence, 1st Prime Minister |
| Jomo Kenyatta | Africa, Independence, Kenya |
| Nelson Mandela | South Africa, Apartheid, |
| Golda Meir | Israel, Yom Kippur War, Closer to USA |
| Gamal Nasser | Egypt, Aswan High Dam, Closer to USSR |
| Osama bin Laden | Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, 9/11 |
| Henry the Navigator | Portugal, School, Navigation |
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