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Comp Poli Midterm - People to know
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 4
10/13/2010

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Churchill (B)
Definition
A British politician mainly known for his wartime leadership during WWII
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Atlee (Britain)
Definition
PM 1945-51
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Thatcher (Britain)
Definition
conservative, reverses social excessiveness
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Blair (Britain)
Definition
PM- 2001, Blair and Labour Party
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Hugh Capet (F)
Definition
1st French King
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Louis XI (F)
Definition
Bourgeouis King: consolidated power and weakened noble w/out causing revolt
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Cardinal Richilieu (F)
Definition
weakened nobility, consolidated power with monarch, contributed to French nationalism
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Charlemagne (F)
Definition
Imperator- Romanorum 800 AD Holy Roman Empire
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Jean Baptist Colbert (F)
Definition
Finance minister for Louis XIV
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Jacques Rousseau (F)
Definition
positive view of state of nature, inequality and unhappiness appear when we leave the state of nature
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Napoleon Bonaparte (F)
Definition
Emporer of France - Military genius
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Konrad Adenauer (G)
Definition
statesman who took Germany from the ruins of the WWII to the most properous nation in Europe
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Willy Brandt (G)
Definition
Chancellor of West Germany and the leader of the social democratic party
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Chancelor of Germany
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Angela Merkel
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Austin the Great (G)
Definition
1st king to overthrow the original rule. Well liked
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Ivan the Terrible (R)
Definition
first tsar, autocracyl unifed russia by killing boyars
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Peter the Great (R)
Definition
1st tsar to tour and reside in europe
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