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Western Civ II Final People
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2009

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David Lloyd George
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Prime Minister of G.B. during WWI
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Franz Ferdinand
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archduke of austria, paraded through sarajevo and was assassinated
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Gavrilo Princip
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shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife at point blank
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TE Lawrence
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popularized the Arabs guerrilla actions. the emir abdullah captured the stratgic port and lawrence took credit
convinced Arabs to coordinate their revolt to help british interests
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Edmund Allenby
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British commander in Egypt and Palstine
led a multinational army against the well drilled turks
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Alexander Kerensky
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head of provisional government in Russia
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Vera Brittain
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writes testament of youth
recorded dramatic new social norms that she and others forged during the rapid changes of wartime
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Lenin
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takes over provisional gov. in russia and declares soviet rule
gets rid of anyone who is not a Bolshevik
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Paul Von Hindenburg
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president of Germany- appoints Hitler chancellor in hopes to create a conservatiove coalition government
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Leon Trotsky
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Stalin's rival/ mobilized Russians army fights for power in russia with stalin and looses and is exiled
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Fuher
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Hitler
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el duce
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Mussolini
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General Secretary of the communist party
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Stalin
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Heinrich Himmler
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head of the SS
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james joyce
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used stream of consciousness in writing in his book Ulysses
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Ernest Hemingway
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wrote the sun also rises
talked about the lost generation
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John Maynard Keynes
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need to operate in the red, use deficit financing to get Britain's economy back on its feet
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Adam Smith
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writes wealth of nations
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Albert einstein
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helps to develop the atomic bomb
after fleeing germany
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Sir James Chadwick
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Discovered the Neutron
enabled the atom to be split and thus lead to the development of the atomic bomb
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Leni Riefenstahl
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filmmaker
- Hitler commissioned him to record a political rally in Nuremberg. the film was called Triumph of the Will
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Charles the Gal
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head of the free French
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Jossip Tito
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leader of the Yugoslavian resistance
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Herman Goering
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head of the Luftwaffe, responsible for the battle of britain
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Neville Chamberlain
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used appeasement (make some one less angry by giving into their demands)
he gave into hitlers demands by giving him part of Czechoslovakia
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Francisco Franco
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leader of Fascist group in spain
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Winston Churchill
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Prime minister of Britain during WWII
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Dwight Eisenhower
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American general responsible for D-Day
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