Section Six Vocab Just People Flashcards
the founder of Marxism, the fundamental theory of communism
Karl Marx
a French queen beheaded by the guillotine during the French Revolution
Marie Antoinette
a spy of the twentieth century who worked for both the French and Germans during World War II
Mata Hari
a Moslem dynasty that ruled India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Moguls
Roman Catholic nun who received the Nobel Prized for Peace in 1979 for her humanitarian work
Mother Teresa
an Italian dictator that formed a fascist government in Italy in the 1920s
Benito Mussolini
crowned himself emperor in 1804; he conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in the invasion of Russia. After his final loss to Britain at the Battle of Waterloo, he was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic
Napoleon Bonaparte
He defeated the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the sea battle of Trafalgar
Admiral Horatio Nelson
an English nurse who established a battlefield hospital for British soldiers; nickname was “Lady with the Lamp”
Florence Nightingale
