People We Need To Know Flashcards
Who was the leader of the Catholic Church in 2014?
Pope Francis
Who famously promoted the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Give the birth name of the man who rose to the rank of first Baron of Baltimore.
George Calvert
Name the man who requested a New World colony where Catholics could freely practice their religion, and name the colony formed after his request.
Sir George Calvert, Maryland
Name the doctor from Pittsburgh who became the first black line officer in the United States Army during the Civil war. He is also considered the father of black nationalism
Major Martin Delany
Name the famous Scottish economist who believed that rational self-interest and competition were the keys to increasing prosperity. He wrote THE WEALTH OF NATIONS and is called the father of modern economics.
Adam Smith
Give the name of the U. S. Secretary of Education since 2009.
Arne Duncan
Give the name of the current Queen of England.
Elizabeth II
Give the name of the current president of Mexico.
Enrique Pena Nieto (pronounced Pain-ya)
Name the Union general who during the civil war led a long march across Georgia to cut off the Confederate armies’ food supplies. He captured the crucial city of Atlanta in the fall of 1864.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Give the name of the employee of the National Security Agency who famously leaked their secret methods and took asylum in Russia.
Edward Snowden
Give the name of the prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2013
David Cameron
Nazi Dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fascist dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Military dictator of Japan
Hideki Tojo
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who led them through the war
Winston Churchill
American commanding general of all Allied forces in Europe
Dwight Eisenhower
President of the United States who ordered the atomic bomb strikes on Japan
Harry Truman
Identify the two Japanese cities attacked by American atomic bombs at the end of World War II. Then identify the dates those bombs were dropped, and the names of the two bombs.
Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945, by a bomb called “Little Boy”;
Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, 1945, by a bomb called “Fat Man.”
Explain how he played a part in adding to our modern understanding of astronomy: , Copernicus
Nicolas Copernicus proposed that the universe was centered on the sun, rather than the earth, and that the earth rotated around the sun
Explain how he played a part in adding to our modern understanding of astronomy: Galileo
Galileo Galilei used the telescope to discover evidence in the solar system that supported Copernicus’ theory, such as the phases of Venus and four of the moons of Jupiter
Explain how he played a part in adding to our modern understanding of astronomy: Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton explained the law of universal gravitation, which united the work of Copernicus, Galileo, and Johannes Kepler to develop into the planetary model we now believe (mostly).
Identify the leader of the Chinese Communist Party in World War II; after the war, he became the leader of all China. Modern Chinese refer to him as “the Chairman.”
Mao Tse-tung
