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MIDTERM HistOry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbus | Discovered the America's for Spain |
| Louis XIV | Strong French monarch who ruled with absolute power |
| Elizabeth I | Beloved Queen of England from the Tuobr Family |
| Oliver Cromwell | leader of the Roundheads in England |
| Mehmet II | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |
| Galileo | Math professor who studied astronomy - Jupiter's moons |
| Issac Newton | Law of Motion |
| Adam Smith | Social Scientist with idea of laissez-faire |
| Napoleon | Leader of France defeated at waterloo |
| Marie Antoinette | Queen of France during the French Revolution |
| Robert Fulton | built the first paddle - wheel steamboat |
| Charles Darwin | Theory of Evolution |
| Otto Von Bismarck | unified of the German states |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the light bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of the telephone |
| Karl Marx | ideas behind communism |
| Clara Barton | Famous Nurse during the civil war |
| Marie Curie | Discovered that radium gives off radiation |
| Albert Einstein | Developed the theory relativity |
| Pablo Picasso | Creating a style of painting known as Cubism |
| Muhammad Ali | Officer of Ottoman army who seized power in Egypt |
| Ghandi | led India from British rule through non-violence |
| Simon Bolivar | Liberator of South America From Spanish rule |
| Father Hidalgo | Led Mexican revolt against Spanish Rule. |
| John Wesley | Founder of Methodism |
| Montesquieu | indentified the 3 branches of government |
| Matthew Perry | led a fleet of U.S warships into Edo Bay |
| Vladimir Conin | leader of the Bolsheviki Revolution |
| Woodrow Wilson | U.S President at onset of WWI |
| Millard Fillmore | U.S President who worked for greater relationship with Japan. |
| Franklin Deleon Roosevelt | New Deal U.S President |
| Leon Trotsky | Wanted to industrialize Russia and spread Communism |
| Lawrence of Arabia | British officer who urged Arabs to revolt Ottoman rule |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy during WWII |
| Franco | led a military revolt against the democratic government of Spain |
| Stalin | USSR leader during WWII |
| Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany |
| Dali | Spanish surrealist artist |
| Kabuki | Japanese action theatre |
| Mozart | the mastic Flute |
| Beethoven | considered to be the greatest composer of all time |
| Tennis Court Oath | 3rd Estate pledge in France for democracy |
| Reign of Terror | time of extreme violence in the french revolution |
| Ferdinand De Lessps | Built the Suez canal |
| Renaissance | rebirth of learning in Europe |
| Reformation | Martin Luther's separation from the Catholic Church |
| New Deal | FDR's Plan for government intervention during Great Depression |
| Black Shirts | Mussolinis Facist things |
| Polihuero | Soviet Government Council |
| Voltaire | deist who believed in :"all men are equal" |
| Garibaldi | Italian hero during the unification of Italy |
| Charles Dickens | A christmas Carol |