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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

heir to the throne of Austria Hungary; assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a bosnian serb.; sparked WWI

Gavrilo Princip

Serbian nationalist and black hand member, killed the archduke and wife

Austrian Emperor
Uncle of Francis Ferdinand
sent serbia ultimatum

Kaiser Wilhelm II

leader of Germany (cousin of czar nicholas II)
urged A-H to take a firm stand against Serbia, pledged Germany's full support (gave Austria a 'blank check')

Czar Nicholas II

leader of russia who contacted Kaiser to urge A-H to soften demands
plea failed and russia began to mobilize to protect serbia

Alfred von Schlieffen

german general
German general who designed a plan for a two front war against Russia and France

georges clemenceau

french prime minister
wished to weaken germany so it cud never threaten france again

david lloyd george

British prime minister
wanted to punish germany

us president during WWI
'peace w/o victory'
14 points

vittorio orlando

italian prime minister
demanded allies honor their secret agreement to give italy lands that were once ruled of A-H (violation of 14 points

Czar Nicholas II

created Duma after Revolution
many didnt trust him bc of his secret police and gov was corrupt
revolutionaries hoped to lead a revolt

revolutionary who hated the czarist gov (bro had been killed for plotting to kill the czar)
read karl marx
led student demonstrations
spread marxist ideas amongst factory workers

Alexander Kerensky

led duma and decided to continue war with germany while most wanted to stop
stepped down after red guards too over capital

Gregory Rasputin

an illiterate peasan
self proclaimed 'holy man' and healer
close to royal family and hired to heal sone
influence over alexandra weakened confidence in gov

leader of the red army
made it an effective fighting force
ordered to shoot every tenth man of a unit performed poorly (tactic borrowed from ancient romans)

Bolshevik revolutionary
head of the Soviet Communists after 1924
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
terror to crush opposition

Benito Mussolini

italian fascist dictator
a socialist in youth
became a nationalist during the war
organized veterans and discontented italians and formed fascist party
fiery speaker
promised to end corruption - replace turmoil with order
bring italy back to its former greatness
saw himself as modern julius caesae

King Victor Emmanuel III

feared civil war in italy after seeing Mussolini's supporters swarm into rome
offered mussolini the position of prime minister

Mussolini
'the leader'
suppressed rival parties
muzzled press
rigged elections
replaced elected officials with Fascist supporters
italy remained a parliamentary monarchy (in theory), but was actually a dictatorship upheld by terror

Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.

Paul von Hindenberg

The President of Germany who named Hitler chancellor

Had hemophilia, kept secret from the people
Was supposed to rule after his father, only son to Nicholas II
Killed with his family.

Nadezkhda Krupskaya

sent to siberia with lenin and married

predicted that the industrial working class would rise up and overthrow capitalism

Alexandra Feodorovna

Czar Nicholas II wife
ruled during his time in the war

British General Bernard Montgomery

trapped and defeated Rommel at the Battle or El Alamein

Commander of Axis troops in North Africa, known as the "Desert Fox"

Dwight Eisenhower

U.S General
led Anglo-US force from the west (Morrocco and Algeria)

went into hiding after italy invasion - new gov set up after

General Douglas Macarther

commander of the US forces in the Philippine Islands who directed the Allied occupation of Japan
island-hopping campaign

Admiral Chester Nimitz

blockading japan

died of stroke april 12, 1945
18 days b4 H's suicide

Vice Pres. Harry S truman

sworn in as new president
decided to drop A-bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki

ethiopia's king who asked for help from league of nations

King Alphonso XIII

monarchy of spain

Francisco Franco

led nationalists in spanish civil war to victory created fascist state and ruled until 1975

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

told his nation he helped to achieve 'peace for our time'

Winston Churchill

'they had to choose between war and dishonor. they chose dishonor, they will have war.'
stood btw nazi takeover of britain

general erwin rommel

German commander, "desert fox", was ordered by Hitler to push Britain back to Cairo in Egypt. Assisted Mussolini when Italy could not push Britain back while they resisted

frederick barbosa

medievel german leader who won great victories in the east

general hideki tojo

military leader and prime minister of japan

Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

hermann goering

Head of the Luftwaffe (Air Force)

franklin d. roosevelt

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

Militaristic Kaiser of Germany whom many blamed for WWI.

Nazi who oversaw the death of 2.5 million Jews at Auschwitz

bernard montgomery

British General who cut off Rommel from advancing into Africa

douglas macarthur

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II

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