History Bee White Set Study Guide

Albert Luthuli, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was president-general of this party; Oliver Tambo led it in exile

African National Congress (ANC)

Walter Sisulu was a longtime leader of this South African party that has governed since 1994

African National Congress (ANC)

Vice President Omar Suleiman announced this man's resignation in 2011

Hosni Mubarak

This man became Egypt's president after Anwar Sadat's 1981 assassination

Hosni Mubarak

Motilal Nehru founded this political family; Feroze Gandhi married into it

Nehru-Gandhi family

Zheng He led treasure voyages for the Yongle Emperor of this dynasty

Ming dynasty

Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, founded this dynasty that came before the Qing

Ming dynasty

Flavius Aetius led the Romans and Visigothic king Theodoric I died in this 451 battle

Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

Her father Aung San negotiated Burma's independence; her husband was Oxford scholar Michael Aris

Aung San Suu Kyi

Min Aung Hlaing led the 2021 coup that put this leader under house arrest

Aung San Suu Kyi

Saraswati is the consort of this god, born from a lotus growing out of Vishnu's navel

Brahma

Glaucon and Adeimantus question Socrates, and Thrasymachus calls justice "the advantage of the stronger," in this work

The Republic (Plato)

The Salii, leaping priests carrying ancilia shields, danced in March for this Roman god

Mars

Christian Jurgensen Thomsen devised this system dividing prehistory into Stone, Bronze, and Iron

Three-age system

Marshal Ney defected back to Napoleon during this period after his escape from Elba

Hundred Days

Blucher's Prussians arrived to help Wellington at this 1815 battle

Battle of Waterloo

Gennady Yanayev led the failed August 1991 coup against the leader of this state

Soviet Union

Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich signed the Belovezha Accords dissolving this state

Soviet Union

Harold Godwinson was killed at Hastings during this 1066 event; Harald Hardrada lost at Stamford Bridge just before

Norman Conquest

Bishop Odo of Bayeux probably commissioned a tapestry depicting this event

Norman Conquest

Cuauhtemoc was the last ruler of this island city; La Malinche translated for its conquerors

Tenochtitlan

Atahualpa and Huascar fought a civil war in this empire just before Pizarro arrived

Inca Empire

Pachacuti expanded this empire from its capital at Cusco

Inca Empire

Prospector William Dickey named this peak for a presidential candidate in 1896

Denali (Mount McKinley)

Oliver Ellsworth was the main author of this 1789 law creating the federal courts and the Attorney General

Judiciary Act of 1789

Sanford Dole led the government and U.S. minister John L. Stevens backed the 1893 overthrow of this queen

Liliuokalani (Hawaiian Kingdom)

Operation Neptune Spear, which killed Osama bin Laden, was carried out by members of this unit

Navy SEALs (SEAL Team Six)

He gave his "liberty or death" speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, then opposed the Constitution as an Anti-Federalist

Patrick Henry

Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to this newspaper, which won a 1971 Supreme Court case over them

The New York Times

Comte de Grasse's fleet won the Battle of the Chesapeake, trapping Cornwallis at this 1781 siege

Siege of Yorktown

Charles O'Hara handed over the British sword to Benjamin Lincoln at this surrender

Siege of Yorktown

Ellen Gates Starr co-founded this 1889 Chicago settlement house

Hull House (Jane Addams)

Marco Polo served this ruler, whose two invasions of Japan were wrecked by storms

Kublai Khan

This ruler founded the Yuan dynasty and built his capital at Khanbaliq

Kublai Khan

Daughter of Lord Byron, she wrote notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Ada Lovelace

Mangal Pandey's attack on officers and greased Enfield cartridges helped spark this 1857 uprising

Sepoy Rebellion (Indian Rebellion of 1857)

Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi fought in this uprising, which named Bahadur Shah Zafar its leader

Sepoy Rebellion (Indian Rebellion of 1857)

As Massachusetts governor he broke the 1919 Boston Police Strike; his father, a notary, swore him in as president

Calvin Coolidge

Hugh Capet was elected king in 987, founding this French dynasty

Capetian dynasty

This dynasty's direct line ended with Charles IV in 1328, passing the throne to the Valois

Capetian dynasty

This naval intelligence officer under Admiral John Godfrey later wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

Ian Fleming

Terry Nichols helped Timothy McVeigh carry out this 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

Oklahoma City bombing

Spartan ephors declared war on these people every year, and the Krypteia hunted them

Helots

Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League pushed for this policy, enforced by the Volstead Act

Prohibition

His work at Bletchley Park produced the Bombe machine for breaking Enigma

Alan Turing

She imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor after the Hundred Days' Reform led by Kang Youwei

Empress Dowager Cixi

Thaddeus Stevens pushed this era's Radical program; the Compromise of 1877 ended it

Reconstruction

Oliver O. Howard led the Freedmen's Bureau during this era

Reconstruction

Pat Nixon's "respectable Republican cloth coat" was mentioned in this 1952 speech

Checkers speech

Daladier and Chamberlain gave up the Sudetenland at a 1938 agreement in this city

Munich

He introduced the Virginia Plan but refused to sign the Constitution, then became the first Attorney General

Edmund Randolph

Navigator Fred Noonan disappeared with her near Howland Island in 1937

Amelia Earhart

George Whitefield toured the colonies and Jonathan Edwards preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" during this movement

First Great Awakening

Baron von Steuben drilled the Continental Army at this 1777-78 winter camp

Valley Forge

Cyrus Field promoted this project; the Great Eastern laid its successful 1866 version

Transatlantic telegraph cable

Ambassador to Hungary during 1956, he later ran the KGB and succeeded Brezhnev

Yuri Andropov

Bishop Pierre Cauchon presided over her trial after she helped crown Charles VII at Reims

Joan of Arc

Miranda v. Arizona built on this amendment, which also bars double jeopardy

Fifth Amendment

Kelo v. New London interpreted this amendment's takings clause

Fifth Amendment

Her brother Pygmalion of Tyre killed her husband Sychaeus; she later founded Carthage

Dido

Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschermak rediscovered this monk's pea-plant work in 1900

Gregor Mendel

She married Louis VII of France, then Henry II of England, and was mother of Richard I and John

Eleanor of Aquitaine

His brother Tenskwatawa, "the Prophet," lost at Tippecanoe; he died at the Battle of the Thames

Tecumseh

Izumo no Okuni founded this Japanese theater, where onnagata actors play female roles

Kabuki

Dutty Boukman led the Bois Caiman ceremony that began this revolution; Dessalines declared independence in 1804

Haitian Revolution

Napoleon sent Charles Leclerc to crush this revolution, led by Toussaint Louverture

Haitian Revolution

Photographer Alfred Stieglitz married this painter, who later lived at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico

Georgia O'Keeffe