A | B |
November 25, 1917 | Beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution |
George Washington Carver | Best remembered agricultural scientist in America |
Denis Diderot | editor of the Encyclopedia |
G.W.F. Hegel | introduced the idea of dialectical reasoning |
Carlos Finlay | theorized that a mospuito carries yellow fever |
Woodrow Wilson | President of the US during WWI |
Germany | A country NOT represented by the Big Four at the Versailles Peace Conference |
T.E. Lawrence | Led Arab revolts against Turkish rule in the Arabian Peninsula |
Sepoy Rebellion | Uprising of native Indian soldiers against the British East India Company |
Ferdinand Zeppelin | designed the dirigible |
Ivan the Terrible | first Russian czar |
William Gladstone | "The Grand Old Man" |
France, England, Russia | Triple Entente |
Not part of Stalin's five-year plan | form of state capitalism to strengthen the economy |
Charles II | Came to the English throne by the Glorious Revolution |
Cheka | Name of the secret police formed by Lenin |
Robert Peel | Founder of London Police Force |
seed drill | Jethro Tull invented it |
Paul von HIndenburg | supreme commander of all Central Powers forces |
British North America Act | Made Canada a self-governing commonwealth |
Victoria | Britain's longest reigning monarch |
George Bernard Shaw | Founded the Fabian Society |
Ernest Rutherford | "Father of Nuclear Science" |
Eddie Rickenbacker | American "ace" pilot |
Marie Louise | Napoleon's second wife |
Immanuel Kant | taught the philosophy of idealsim |
Count von Zinzendorf | Established the Moravian settlement of Herrnhut |
War of Spanish Succession | Ended with the Treaty of Utrecht |
Charles I | Succeeded James I as ruler of England |
Albert Einstein | Developed the theories of relativity |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | "Father of the French Romanticism" |
Quebec | The first permanent French settlement in North America |
Wilbur Wright | Made the first successful airplane flight |
Walter Reed and William Gorgas | Two American army doctors who worked to eliminate yellow fever |
Gallipoli Campaign | Largest British offensive in the East during WWI |
1791 | Year the French Revolution began |
South Africa | area colonized by Dutch farmers known as Boers |
Amy Carmichael | missionary to India |
July 4, 1776 | Declaration of Independence adopted |
John Locke | English philosopher who promoted empiricism |
Henry Ford | Invented the assembly line process |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn | wrote The Gulag Archipelago |
Battle of Waterloo | Napoleon's final defeat |
George Whitefield | most famous evangelist of the Greak Awakening |
Maximilien Robespierre | Responsible for the Reign of Terror |
Sir Humphry Davy | invented the miner's safety lamp |
Max Plank | developed the quantum theory of matter and energy |
Nikolai Lenin | Formed the Soviet Union in 1922 |
Archduke Ferdinand | His death began WWI |
Battle of Jutland | forced German fleet to return to its home ports and stay |
Robert Fulton | invented the first practical steamship |
Ferdinand Foch | French Field Marshal |
Veteran's Day | Armistice Day |
Duke of Wellington | Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo |
Friedrich Engles | Karl Marx's close friend and author of Communist Manifesto |
Louis XVI | Executed during the French Revolution |
Samuel de Champlain | "Father of New France" |
Catherine the Great | the "enlightened despot" of Russia |
Lord Nelson | World's greatest naval hero |
Jonathan Edwards | preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
John J. Pershing | Commander of the American Expeditionary Force |
Florence Nightingale | Created the modern nursing profession |
Louis Pasteur | developed the germ theory of disease |
Samuel Crompton | Invented the spinning mule |
Spanish-American War | Gave the US control of Cuba and the Philippines |
David Livingstone | Missionary to Africa |
Bourgeoisie | The middle class |
Jean Baptiste Colbert | French minister of finance |
KDKA | First commercial boradcasting station to go on the air |
Louis XV | said "After me the deluge" |