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| 6779537470 | sigmund freud | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis. | 0 | |
| 6779533279 | max planck | German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. | 1 | |
| 6779549070 | Mahatma Gandhi | Great revolutionary who led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience based upon Henry David Thoreau's doctrines. | 2 | |
| 6779550414 | Jinnah | Founder of Pakistan leader of the Muslim League Muslim leader in India that became governor general of Pakistan | 3 | |
| 6779550415 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition | 4 | |
| 6779550416 | Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. | 5 | |
| 6779551404 | Pablo Picasso | a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes | 6 | |
| 6779551405 | Roosevelt | (TR) , Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force, first put into effect in Dominican Republic | 7 | |
| 6779552277 | Ho Chi Minh | 1950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used geurilla warfare to fight anti-comunist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable | 8 | |
| 6779552278 | Franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death | 9 | |
| 6779553053 | Mao Zedong | (1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976. | 10 | |
| 6779562231 | Thich Quang Duc | Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in June 11, 1963 to protest persecution of Buddhists during NGo Dinh Diem administration | 11 | |
| 6779562232 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who seen as responsible for Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. | 12 | |
| 6779563035 | Kwame Nkrumah | Leader of nonviolent protests for freedom on the Gold Coast. When independence was gained, he became the first prime minister of Ghana. He develpoped economic projects, but was criticized for spending too much time on Pan-African efforts, and neglecting his own countries' issues | 13 | |
| 6779563036 | Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989,"Great Communicator" Republican, conservative economic policies, replaced liberal Democrats in upper house with consevative Democrats or "boll weevils" , at reelection time, jesse jackson first black presdiential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro as VP running mate (first woman) | 14 | |
| 6779563037 | Jonas Salk | American doctor who invented the polio vaccine in 1953. Polio crippled and killed millions worldwide, and the successful vaccine virtually eliminated the scourage. | 15 | |
| 6779564186 | Pinochet | Military dictator who rules Chile w/ iron fist for 20 yrs & is backed fully by US because he opposes communism; made people disappear | 16 | |
| 6779564812 | Gamal Nasser | Arab leader, set out to modernize Egypt and end western domination, nationalized the Suez canal, led two wars against the Zionist state, remained a symbol of independence and pride, returned to socialism, nationalized banks and businesses, limited economic policies | 17 | |
| 6779564813 | Nelson Mandela | Born 1918. 11th President of South Africa. Spent 27 years in prison after conviction of charges while he helped spearhead the stuggle against apartheid. Received Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. | 18 | |
| 6779564814 | Idi Amin | He took over the government of Uganda and overthrew his ally. And started his own reign of terror, and in 8 months there was over 300,000 executed. He started war with Tanzania and was crushed by them, he later than fled to Libya. | 19 | |
| 6779565656 | Thatcher | 1st prime minister of great Britain First woman Prime Minister The economic policy of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Reduced state economic power and introduced free market and privatization with certain constraints. Deregulated the UK's market. | 20 | |
| 6779566326 | Martin King Jr | who became the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott Reverend who is often seen as the face of the civil rights movement. Wonderful speech giver and activist. Believed in peaceful protest. | 21 | |
| 6779580014 | new modes of transportation in the 1900s | Cars, sea transport, air transportation, animals | 22 | |
| 6779586485 | new modes of communications in the 1900s | signal lamps, newspapers, and the electric telegraph | 23 | |
| 6779610719 | New Scientific Paradigms | Early modern scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo demonstrate that Earth is not at the center of the universe - a claim with deep philosophical implications. theory of relativity, quantum physics, big bang theory, psychology New philosophies like the theory of relativity allowed humans to better understand the world around them. Like how the theory of relativity transformed physics and astronomy during the 20th century. Humans were able to predict astronomical phenomena such as neutron stars, black holes, and gravitational waves | 24 | |
| 6781412131 | Green house | The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of the Earth that occurs when water vapor, carbon dioxide, and gases absorb and radiate thermal energy. | 25 | |
| 6781446233 | Medical innovations 1900s | they increased the ability of humans to survive = life expansion increased (vaccines, antibiotics) | 26 | |
| 6781455871 | Energy innovation | coal-gradually replaced wood as both and fuel and for industrial processes; oil- (would come late 19th-20th century) refinement of petroleum allowed its uses as a fuel for internal combustion engines that propelled automobiles, locomotives, and ships nuclear power, oil solar? | 27 | |
| 6781461728 | Military technology | tanks, chemical weapons, machine guns, trench warfar | 28 | |
| 6781465250 | Military Tactics | Advance planning, building bridges and roadways (?), weakening city walls, attacking with arrows, storming cities Classification = different types of military types New technology and weapons Railroads and steamships increased the volume, reach, and speed of mobilization Trench tactics | 29 | |
| 6781501764 | Gregory Pincus | invented birth control pill Scientists who created fatherless rabbits by parthenogenesis. He removed the ova of rabbits, treated them with chemical solutions, and stimulated them to undergo cleavage, even though they were not fertilized by sperm cells | 30 | |
| 6781508831 | diseases associated with poverty | high risk of developing leukemia, sarcoma, papillary thyroid cancer, breast cancer, asthma, AIDS, malaria | 31 | |
| 6781518238 | diseases associated with epidemics | HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria | 32 | |
| 6781526139 | diseases due to lifestyle changes | Smoking = lung cancer, poor diet= obesity, cardiovascular disease | 33 | |
| 6791526658 | Green Revolution | Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations. | 34 | |
| 6791593560 | Ottoman Empire Decline | Caused by internal strife, European rivals whittling away its territories and lack of adopting Western ways to late. | 35 | |
| 6791593561 | Ming Empire Decline | 36 | ||
| 6791620638 | February Revolution | the revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917 | 37 | |
| 6791999028 | Jinnah | Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948) | 38 | |
| 6792004647 | biafra | Eastern Nigerian region inhabited mostly by the Ibo people; in 1967 attempted unsuccessfully to secede from Nigeria; defeated and reintegrated in 1970. | 39 | |
| 6792004648 | Quebecois | a native or inhabitant of Quebec (especially one who speaks French) | 40 | |
| 6800145227 | Metropole | the dominant part of an empire, distinguished from the subordinate colonies, which is normally the state that initiated colonization | 41 |
