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History Test #9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Johann Gutenberg | Invented the movable-type printing press |
| Elizabeth I | Ruler whose time on the throne in England was called the Golden Age |
| William Wilberforce | Influential in ending slave trade in the United Kingdom |
| Black Forest | Mountainous area in Germany that has inspired fairy tales and folk stories |
| Jean Henri Dunant | Started the International Red Cross |
| Denmark | Southernmost Scandinavian country |
| Ukraine | After Russia, the largest country in Europe |
| Strait of Gibraltar | Narrow body of water that separates Europe from Africa |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Designed advanced machines and made accurate, scientific drawings of the human body |
| Charles de Gaulle | French leader who set up a democratic government called the Fifth Republic |
| Magna Carta | Document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the monarch |
| Florence Nightingale | British nurse who started the modern nursing profession |
| Falklands War | Began when Argentina invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands |
| Thames River | England's main river |
| Berlin Airlift | U.S. & United Kingdom provided supplies to West Berlin |
| Neutral | A country that does not align with other countries in war |
| Queen Margrethe II | Longest-ruling monarch of Denmark |
| Lithuania | Largest country in the Baltic states |
| Black Sea | large sea on the eastern side of the Balkan Peninsula |
| Age of Reason | Another name for the Enlightenment |
| WWI | Treat of Versailles |
| WWII | Axis powers versus Allied powers |
| WWI | U-Boats |
| WWII | Winston Churchill |
| WWII | 1939-1945 |
| WWI | Central powers versus Allied powers |
| John Cabot | Italian navigator who claimed land in North America for England |
| Jacques Cartier | Explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River in Canada |
| John Calvin | Leader of Protestant Reformation in France |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Military hero during the French Revolution who crowned himself emperor of France |
| King Ferdinand | Ruler who defeated the Moors in Spain and paid for Christopher Columbus's voyage |
| Hernando Cortes | Explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spanish rule |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who began the first successful expedition to circumnavigate the earth |
| Anglo-Irish Treaty | Declared that Ireland was politically separate from the United Kingdom |
| Alps | Largest mountain system in Europe |
| Thirty Years' War | Series of wars fought between Protestant and Catholic forces in Europe during the 1600s |
| Zurich | Switzerland's largest city |
| Sami | Native peoples of the northern Scandinavian Peninsula & northwestern Russia |
| Iceland | Known as the Land of Fire and Ice |
| Ukraine | Joseph Stalin was responsible for the Great Famine in |
| John Huss | His preaching brought reformation to Bohemia |
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