HISTORY FINAL PEOPLE Flashcards
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“Bobbie” Rosenfield
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- Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld was a Canadian athlete, who won a gold medal for the 100-metre relay and a silver medal for the 100-metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was named “Canadian woman athlete of the half-century” in 1949, and a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis.
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Adolf Hitler
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- Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer in 1934. He is the reason for WWII and is behind the deaths of millions of Jewish people.
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Agnes MacPhail
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- Agnes Macphail was a woman’s suffragist and politician. Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to the House of Commons (1921–40) and was one of the first two women elected to the Ontario legislature (1943–45, 1948–51). She was also the first female member of a Canadian delegation to the League of Nations. Macphail was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the forerunner of the New Democratic Party). She was a noted pacifist and an advocate for prison reform. As a member of the Ontario legislature, she championed Ontario’s first equal pay legislation (1951).
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Arthur Currie
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- he started off as a militia officer and had never commanded anything larger than a regiment at the outbreak of war in 1918. During the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he held a pivotal role in holding the Allied position. He rose to command the 1st Canadian Division in September 1915. Currie was Sir Julian Byng’s replacement and was appointed the head of the Canadian Corps in June of 1917. Under his command/leadership the Canadians cemented their reputation as an elite assault formation, with an unbroken string of major victories in 1917-1918 that included Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras and the Canal du Nord.
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Benito Mussolini
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- Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945. Called “Il Duce” (the Leader) by his countrymen or simply “Mussolini,” he allied himself with Adolf Hitler during World War II, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership
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Bernard Montgomery
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- Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was one of the most prominent and successful British commanders of the Second World War (1939-45). Known as ‘Monty’, he notably commanded the Allies against General Erwin Rommel in North Africa, and in the invasions of Italy and Normandy.
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Billy Bishop
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- he is one of the pilots who provided aerial support during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, he shot down 12 planes in April 1917 alone, winning the Military Cross and earning a promotion to Captain. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his single-handed attack on a German airfield near Cambrai, France on June 2, 1913. By the end of the First World War, Bishop had been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was credited with destroying 72 enemy aircraft.
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Czar Nicolas II
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- he was the last king of Russia, until he and his family were murdered while taking a family portrait by Bolshevik soldiers. He was a distant cousin of the King of England and the King of Germany.
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Emily Carr
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- Emily Carr was a painter and writer, regarded as a major Canadian artist for her paintings of western coast indigenous peoples and landscape. While teaching art in Vancouver, B.C, Carr made frequent sketching trips to indigenous peoples in British Columbia.
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Emily Murphy
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- she was a Canadian women’s rights activist, jurist, and author. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were “persons” under Canadian law.
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Emperor Hirohito
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- Hirohito was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. During World War II, Japan attacked nearly all of its Asian neighbours, allied itself with Nazi Germany and launched a surprise assault on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Hirohito presided over the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and eventually, the Japanese surrender to the Allies. Many historical sources have portrayed Hirohito as powerless, constrained by military advisers that were making all the decisions. Some have even portrayed him as a pacifist.
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Erwin Rommel
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- Erwin Rommel was one of Germany’s most respected military leaders in World War Two. Rommel played a part in two very significant battles during the war – at El Alamein in North Africa and at D-Day. Rommel’s nickname was the ‘Desert Fox’ – a title given to him by the British.
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F. D. Roosevelt
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- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. On January 10, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt introduced the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler’s advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II.
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F.O. Loft
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- Frederick O. Loft was a Mohawk nation activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada. He has been counted among “the great Indian activists of the first half of the twentieth century.” He was also a World War I veteran and was active in encouraging recruitment.
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Franz Ferdinand
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- the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and was assassinated in Sarajevo. His death triggered WWI and he died of a bullet wound in his throat.
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Harry Truman
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- Truman began his presidency with great energy. He helped arrange Germany’s unconditional surrender in May 1945, which ended World War II in Europe. Then he travelled to Germany for a meeting with Allied leaders to discuss the peace settlement. In the White House from 1945 to 1953, Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan, helped rebuild postwar Europe, worked to contain communism and led the United States into the Korean War (1950-1953).
