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Semester Mid-term Review Flashcards

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Built first dirigible

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Ferdinand Zeppelin

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Best remembered agricultural scientist

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George Washington Carver

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Eliminated yellow fever

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Walter Reed and William Gorgas

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Developed theories of relativity

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Albert Einstein

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Developed Quantum theory of matter

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Max Planck

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Began Ford motor company, developed the assembly line, engineered the Model T.

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Henry Ford

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Made 1st successful airplane flight

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Wilber Wright

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Assassinated on 6/28/1914 and started World War 1

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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Supreme commander of German forces

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Hindenburg and Ludendorff

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Led the Bolshevik Revolution and overthrew the Russian Czar

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Vladimir Lenin

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Invented spinning mule

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Samuel Crompton

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Formulated idealism

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Immanuel Kant

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Invented steamship

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Robert Fulton

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Invented the Miner’s safety lamp

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Si Humphry Davy

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Invented pasteurization and germ theory of disease

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Louis Pasteur

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British hero of Napoleonic wars

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Duke of Wellington

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Important leader and founder of London police

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Sir Robert peel

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England’s longest ruling Monarch known for being good

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Queen Victoria

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Grand old man leader of Liberal party

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William Gladstone

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Preached sinners in the hands of an angry God

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Jonathan Edwards

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Best known evangelist of the great awakening

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George Whitfield

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Famous English philosopher who taught empiricism

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John Locke

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Promoted skepticism

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David Hume

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King during the French Revolution

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Louis XVI

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Prophesied after me the deluge

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Louis XV

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Established committee of public safety

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Maximilian Robespierre

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Father of new France

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Samuel de Champlain

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Napoleon’s second wife

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Marie Louise

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Father of French romanticism

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Editor of the encyclopedia

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Dennis Diderot

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Battle where Napoleon was defeated

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Battle of Waterloo

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Sun King rained for 70 years said I am the state

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Louis X I V

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Louis’s minister of finance

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Jean Baptiste Colbert

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James son who became king

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Charles I

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King under glorious Revolution

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William III

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Proved mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever

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Carlos Finlay

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Father of nuclear science

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Ernest Rutherford

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First Commercial broadcasting station

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KDKA

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Made up by France Britain and Russia. Became known as the allies

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Triple entente

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Made up by Germany Austria Hungary and Italy. Became Central Powers

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Triple alliance

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Lead Arab revolts against Turkish rule

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T. E. Lawrence

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Most important naval battle of World War I

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Battle of Jutland

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US president during World War I

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Woodrow Wilson

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American flying ace

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Eddie Rickenbacker

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General of American doughboys

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John Pershing

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French field commander

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Ferdinand Foch

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Means farmers

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Boers

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Largest British offensive in the east

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Gallipoli Campaign

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The “Big Four”

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Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando

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Helped organize Marx’s idea

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Friedrich Engels

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Middle class

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Bourgeoisie

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Working class

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Proletariat

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Claim the title Czar embraced feudalism and tied serfs to the land

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Ivan IV (The Terrible)

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Year of the Bolshevik revolution

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1917

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Lenin’s secret police

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Cheka

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Became Lenin’s successor-very brutal ruler

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Stalin

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Irish missionary to Indian women and girls

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Amy Carmichael

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Ended the war of Spanish Succession

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Treaty of Utrecht

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Year of French Revolution

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1789

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Date of Declaration of Independence

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July 4, 1776

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Wrote The Gulag Archipelago

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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