World History Final - People to Identify

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Who was Louis XVI?

King of France during the French Revolution; executed during the Reign of Terror.

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Who was Marie Antoinette?

Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI; symbol of royal excess, executed during French Revolution.

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Who was Maximilien Robespierre?

Leader of the Committee of Public Safety; led the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

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Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?

French military leader who became Emperor; spread revolutionary ideas, eventually defeated at Waterloo.

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Who was the Duke of Wellington?

British general who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

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Who was Klemens von Metternich?

Austrian diplomat who led the Congress of Vienna; promoted conservatism and balance of power.

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Who was Karl Marx?

German philosopher who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto; father of Marxist theory.

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Who was Henry Bessemer?

Inventor of the Bessemer Process, revolutionizing steel production during the Industrial Revolution.

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Who was Giuseppe Garibaldi?

Italian nationalist who helped unify Italy with his Red Shirt army.

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Who was Otto von Bismarck?

Prussian chancellor who unified Germany through wars and realpolitik.

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Who was Victor Emmanuel II?

First king of a unified Italy.

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Who was Queen Victoria?

British monarch during the height of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution.

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Who was Abraham Lincoln?

U.S. president during the Civil War; issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Who was José de San Martín?

South American general who helped liberate Argentina, Chile, and Peru.

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Who was Simón Bolívar?

South American revolutionary leader who helped liberate much of northern South America.

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Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?

Mexican president and general; fought in the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War.

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Who was Miguel Hidalgo?

Mexican priest who began the fight for independence from Spain in 1810.

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Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?

British suffragette who fought for women's voting rights.

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Who was Susan B. Anthony?

American suffragist and women's rights activist.

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Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?

German Emperor during WWI; his policies contributed to the war's outbreak.

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Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

His assassination in 1914 triggered the start of World War I.

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Who was Marie Curie?

Pioneer in radioactivity; first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

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Who was Albert Einstein?

Physicist who developed the theory of relativity; fled Nazi Germany.

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Who was Sigmund Freud?

Founder of psychoanalysis; influenced psychology and cultural thought.

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Who was Charles Darwin?

Developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.

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Who was Tsar Nicholas II?

Last Emperor of Russia; overthrown during the Russian Revolution.

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Who was Vladimir Lenin?

Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution; founded the Soviet Union.

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Who was Joseph Stalin?

Totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union; known for purges and WWII leadership.

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Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

U.S. president; led Progressive reforms and expanded U.S. influence globally.

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Who was Woodrow Wilson?

U.S. president during WWI; proposed the League of Nations.

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Who was Adolf Hitler?

Dictator of Nazi Germany; initiated WWII and the Holocaust.

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Who was Benito Mussolini?

Fascist dictator of Italy during WWII.

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Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

U.S. president during the Great Depression and most of WWII.

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Who was Mao Zedong?

Leader of Communist China after the Chinese Civil War.

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Who was Chiang Kai-shek?

Leader of the Chinese Nationalists; fled to Taiwan after civil war.

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Who was Emperor Hirohito?

Emperor of Japan during WWII.

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Who was Winston Churchill?

British Prime Minister during WWII; known for leadership and speeches.

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Who was Harry Truman?

U.S. president at end of WWII; ordered atomic bomb and led during early Cold War.

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Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?

U.S. general in WWII; later president during early Cold War.

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Who was George Kennan?

U.S. diplomat; advocated for containment of Soviet influence.

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Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

High-ranking Nazi; architect of the Final Solution.

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Who was Marshal Pétain?

Leader of Vichy France; collaborated with Nazi Germany.