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| 158692934 | Baron de Montesquieu | French enlightenment thinker; wrote "The Spirit of the Laws" talking of his ideas of government like checks and balances and the threes national branches | 1 | |
| 158692935 | Fulgencio Batista | Cuban president; responsible for some reforms before leaving office first time, then came back a second time, overthrew the government and became dictator until Fidel Castro kicked him out | 2 | |
| 158692936 | Bay of Pigs | unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961 sponsored by the U.S.; attempt to overthrow Castro | 3 | |
| 158692937 | David Ben-Gurion | first prime minister of Israel | 4 | |
| 158692938 | Berlin Wall | put up in 1961, torn down in 1990 | 5 | |
| 158692939 | Sir Henry Bessemer | invented more cost-effective way of making steel | 6 | |
| 158692940 | Bhagavad Gita | Hindu holy book where the god Krishna teaches selflessness, religious duties and devotion | 7 | |
| 158692941 | Bill of Exchange | document purchased from bank allowing someone to travel without carrying large amounts of money, like the modern check | 8 | |
| 158692942 | Black Hand | Serbian nationalist/terrorist group responsible for Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination; leads to WWI | 9 | |
| 158692943 | Blitzkrieg | German for "lightning war" and army tactic (self-explanatory) | 10 | |
| 158692944 | Block Printing | characters are carved into wooden block. block is inked and pressed onto paper | 11 | |
| 158692945 | Blut and Eisen | "Blood and Iron" policy by Otto von Bismarck to unify all Germany under Prussian control and expand (VERY successful) | 12 | |
| 158692946 | Simon Bolivar | L. American revolutionary responsible for riding Spain out of S. America; most important figure for Latin American independence | 13 | |
| 158692947 | Bolshevik | early communists during Russian revolution of 1917 | 14 | |
| 158692948 | Bourgeoisie | middle class | 15 |
