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5 Year Plan: Goals set by Stalin on amount of production to be made in the next five years. The goals were not met because they were too high.
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Al Capone: Gangster who killed over 500 men and organized the St. Valentines Day Massacre
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Alfred Mahan: Captain who wrote the book telling the U.S. government that they needed to construct a large Navy if they wanted to become more powerful. This resulted in the creation of the great white fleet.
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Alice Paul: suffragist that went on a hunger strike in attempt to achieve women's suffrage
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Alvin York: Most decorated Word War 1 solider, became a war hero when he single-handedly captured a group of Germans.
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Article 10: Piece of the League of Nations entrance document that the Legislatures did not like and argued with Woodrow Wilson for and never joined the League because of it.
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Black Hand: Terrorist group that assassinated Franz Ferdinand and indirectly caused World War 1.
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Bloody Sunday: Revolution held by the Russian people, led by Gregory Gapon, which caused the Russian Police to fire into the crowd and started the revolution.
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Duma: Part of lawmaking body in Russia instituted by Czar Nicholas Romanov in his October Manifesto. It really had almost no power but it calmed the people of Russia for a short time.
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Elastic Clause: Clause in the Constitution that allows the congress to stretch its powers in times of crisis
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Electoral College: Group of people that place official votes for President, they get the results of the voting from their state and vote for their candidate.
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Fourteen Points: Woodrow Wilson's idea to prevent another World War. He couldn't get it all passed because of the Versailles Treaty.
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Franz Ferdinand: Heir to the Austria-Hungary throne that was assassinated by the Black Hand in Serbia. This assassination indirectly led to the start of World War 1.
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George Dewey: Commander of the Pacific fleet, sent to Hong Kong by Teddy Roosevelt, that sunk of captured the entire Spanish Pacific fleet in 6 hours.
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Ida Tarbell: Writer who criticized Standard Oil and helped to break up Standard Oil monopoly.
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Jacob Riis: photographer that took pictures of the New York City slums and wrote a book, How the Other Half Lives, which was about the hardships that these people lived in.
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Jane Addams: reformist who created the Hull House, a settlement home modeled after the ones she saw while in Europe.
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Jose Marti: Cuban who gave speeches in the U.S. to start a war with Spain.
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Karl Marx: Creator of the ideas of communism wrote down his ideas in the Communist Manifesto. Russia converted to this type of government when Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over.
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Lenin: Leader of the Bolsheviks that took over Russia and converted it to communism. He suffered a series of strokes and eventually died, he was replaced by Stalin.
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Nicholas II: Czar of Russia who had no leadership qualities and was eventually the last Czar of Russia.
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Preamble: Introduction to the constitution that states the six main ideas of the Constitution.
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Rasputin: Russian healer who was believed to cure the Czar's son Alexis of his hemophilia. The Russian people hated him and eventually assassinated him. His enemies knew him as "The Mad Monk of Russia".
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Selective Service Act: Draft into the U.S. Army in World War 1, over 4 million young men signed up for duty.
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Stalin: leader of Russia after the revolution that succeeded Lenin. He vied with Leon Trotsky and won when Trotsky fled out of the country.
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Theodore Roosevelt: President who became a Spanish War hero when he told Dewey to send his fleet to Hong Kong, and when he led the rough riders in capture of Puerto Rico. He was elected president after the war and built the Panama Canal.
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Upton Sinclair: Writer who wrote about the evils of capitalism. His book The Jungle told of the impure conditions that the workers and products of the meat-packing industry were in. It eventually lead to the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which set laws on the sanitary conditions in food processing plants.
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William Gorgas: Surgeon General of the U.S. Army that helped to create ways to prevent yellow fever and malaria using methods including mosquito netting, draining swamps, and pouring oil into swamps to kill mosquitoes.
