WWI Key Personalities Flashcards by Rebekah Lai | Brainscape

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Hindenburg

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German Supreme Commander from 1916

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Walter Rathenau

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Director of German War Raw Materials Office

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Karl Helferrich

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German Minister of Finance

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David Lloyd George

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British Minister of Munitions, 1915-1916

British Prime Minister, 1916-1922

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Herbert Asquith

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British Prime Minister, 1908-1916

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Lord Kitchener

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British Minister of War

- face printed on early recruitment posters

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Lord Derby

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British Director of Recruitment

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Nurse Cavell

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British nurse executed by a German firing squad

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Arthur Winnington-Ingram

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Bishop of London

- strongly pro-war

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Keir Hardie

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British anti-war socialist

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Ramsay McDonald

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British anti-war socialist, leader of Labour Party

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Bertrand Russell

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British intellectual, anti-war activist

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Sylvia Pankhurst

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British feminist, anti-war activist

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Karl Liebknecht

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German anti-war socialist activist

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Rosa Luxemburg

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German anti-war socialist activist

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Erzberger

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Leader of German catholic Centre Party

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Emperor of Germany, 1888-1918

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Bethmann-Hollweg

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Chancellor of Germany, 1909-17