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MIDTERM HistOry
Question | Answer |
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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 |