| A | B |
| Albert Einstein | Jewish scientist proposed theories of relativity |
| Henry Ford | built the Model T automobile |
| Wright brothers | first successful airplane flight , 1903 |
| Titanic | luxury liner that sunk off coast of Iceland 1912 |
| Walter Reed | eliminated yellow fever |
| Carlos Finlay | discovered that mosquitos carry yellow fever |
| Ferdinand Zeppelin | built first dirigible |
| Ernest Rutherford | father of nuclear science |
| Zimmerman Note | promised Mexico land in exchange for attacking the US |
| T.E. Lawrence | flamboyant British colonel that led the Arab revotl ag. Turkish rule |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | famous American WW1 flying ace |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of United States during WW1 |
| Nicholas II | Last czar of Russia before the Revolution |
| Bolshevik Revolution | occured in 1917 in Russia |
| The Reds | Russians who favored Communists in the Russian Civil War |
| Peter the Great | Built St. Petersburg |
| Catherine the Great | embraced Englightenment ideas |
| Ivan III | first leader of a united Russia |
| Peter Tchaikovsky | great Russian composer |
| John Dewey | American educator who advocated "progressive education" |