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Flashcards by Daniel Adiletta, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Daniel Adiletta
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| William Seward | He was a Senator that hated slavery. The dudes that killed Lincoln tried to kill him too. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Was in charge of Hawaii until she was kicked out by Americans |
| William Randolph Hearst | Newspaper owner, famous for "yellow journalism" |
| William McKinley | President that finished the Spanish-American War but then killed by a crazy anarchist |
| George Dewey | Famous officer in the Navy, beat the Spanish in a big battle for the Philippines (by the city of Manila) |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | A Filipino man, US asked him to fight against Spanish. Then we betrayed him and he fought against US after Spanish-American War |
| Kaiser Wilhelm | The last Emperor of Germany and Prussia. He joined Austria-Hungary and the central powers in WWI |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | A member of Austria-Hungary's royalty. He was shot by Serbians which made Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia and start WWI |
| Edith Cavell | Famous nurse, said "I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved." She was shot by Germans |
| Woodrow Wilson | American President during WWI. Tried to create League of Nations after to protect peace. |
| John Pershing | Nicknamed "Black Jack" he was the General of the US Army in WWI. Very impressive |
| Alvin York | Amazing soldier. He received the Medal of Honor for running at a German machine gun during WWI |
| Eugene V. Debs | Created a union called the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to fight for safer jobs and better treatment of workers |
| Garrett Morgan | Inventor from Cleveland. He was a black man that invented the stop light and the gas mask |
| Henry Johnson | First American soldier to win the Croix de Guerre (France's version of the Medal of Honor). He was a black man and a hero in WWI |
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