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Important People in
American and World History
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Important People in
World History
1 Thomas Jefferson
Important People in
World History
Thomas Jefferson
• Principal author of the
Declaration of
Independence
• US Ambassador to
France
• Washington’s
Secretary of State
• 3rd President
• Authorized Louisiana
Purchase
Important People in
World History
2 George Washington
Important People in
World History
George Washington
• Delegate to 1st and
2nd Continental
Congresses
• Commander-in-chief
of the Continental
Army
• Chairman of the
Constitutional
Convention
• 1st President of the
USA-served two
terms
Important People in
World History
3 Abraham Lincoln
Important People in
World History
• 16th President of USA
• Helped build the Republican
Party
• Administration
– Civil War
– Gettysburg Address
– Emancipation Proclamation
• Assassinated before he could
implement Reconstruction
Plans
Abraham Lincoln
Important People in
World History
4 Woodrow Wilson
Important People in
World History
Woodrow Wilson
• President of Princeton
University; Governor of NJ
• 20th President of the United
States
• Federal Reserve Act and the
Federal Trade Commission
began during his
administration
• WWI Peace Plan known as
14 Points
• Dream of League of Nations
not approved by Congress
Important People in
World History
• British statesman; appoint
Prime Minister in 1940
• Vowed “victory at all
costs…for without victory
there is no survival.”
• Predicted the “iron curtain” of
the Cold War
• Nobel Prize Literature 1953
for The Second World War
5 Winston Churchill
Important People in
World History
• British statesman; appoint
Prime Minister in 1940
• Vowed “victory at all
costs…for without victory
there is no survival.”
• Predicted the “iron curtain” of
the Cold War
• Nobel Prize Literature 1953
for The Second World War
Winston Churchill
Important People in
World History
6 Adolf Hitler
Important People in
World History
Adolf Hitler
• Believed that Germany was at risk
from Jewish, socialist, democratic,
and liberal forces
• Leader of the national Socialist
German Workers Party (NAZI)
• Published Mein Kampf (My
Struggle)
• 1934 named himself Fuhrer of
Germany and began to build a
world wide empire
• 1942 Holocaust-”Final Solution to
the Jewish Question” 50 million
dead
• Committed suicide as Allies moved
into Germany
Important People in
World History
7 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
“Lenin”
Important People in
World History
• Influenced by works of Karl
Marx
• Founder of the Russian
Communist Party
• 1917 lead the November
Revolution to establish a
“soviet” government based on
a union of workers, peasants,
and soldiers
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov “Lenin”
Important People in
World History
8 Mao Zedong
Important People in
World History
• Studied western writings, radical
Chinese writings and Mark and
Lenin
• Believed the peasants would be
the best support for Communist
Revolution
• Opposed Nationalist Chiang-Kai
Shek
• During Long March (1934-36)
assumed leadership of
Communist Party in China
• Founded the People’s Republic of
China in 1949
Mao Zedong
Important People in
World History
9 Mohandus Gandhi
Important People in
World History
• Spiritual and moral leader of
India that favored
independence from Great
Britain
• Studied and practiced law
• Practiced passive resistance,
civil disobedience, and boycotts
to generate social and political
change
• Assassinated in 1948
Mohandus Gandhi
Important People in
World History
10 Pope John Paul II
Important People in
World History
Pope John Paul II
• This polish cardinal was
the first non-Italian pope
elected since the 16th
century
• Served as Pope from
October 1978 to April
2005
• Supported ageless
Catholic traditions, strong
papal authority, devotion
to the virgin Mary, and
inter-faith cooperation
Important People in
World History
11Mother Teresa
Important People in
World History
• Roman Catholic nun set a
world wide standard for
humanitarian aid
• Founded the Missionaries
of Charity-doing work
among the poor, dying,
and abandoned of India
• Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Mother Teresa
Important People in
World History
12 DesmondTutu
Important People in
World History
• Leading spokesman for
passive resistance to
South African aparthied in
the 1980s
• Nobel Peace Prize 1983
for his attempts to
promote racial equality
• 1986 became the head of
the South African
Anglican Church
Desmond Tutu
Important People in
World History
• Greatest thinker of his era
(ca.287-212B.C)
• Invented the catapult,
grappling devices, and an
device to move water and
loose material from one
level to another
• Mathematical writing on
the principle of the lever
was a significant
contribution to knowledge
13 Archimedes
Important People in
World History
• Greatest thinker of his era
(ca.287-212B.C)
• Invented the catapult,
grappling devices, and an
device to move water and
loose material from one
level to another
• Mathematical writing on
the principle of the lever
was a significant
contribution to knowledge
Archimedes
Important People in
World History
14 Nicolaus Copernicus
Important People in
World History
• Polish astronomer
proposed the theory that
the sun, not the earth,
was the center of the solar
system in 1507
Nicolaus Copernicus
Important People in
World History
15Erastothenes
Important People in
World History
• Cyrene for North Africa
that studied mathematics
in Athens
• 1st to calculate the
circumference of the
earth, describe it as a
sphere, and predict that
ships could sail from
Greece to India
15 Erastothenes
Important People in
World History
16Galileo
Important People in
World History
Galileo
• Italian scientist that
developed the modern
experimental method
• Proved Copernican
Theory
• Proved objects of different
masses fall at the same
velocity
• Used a telescope to
examine objects in the sky
• In conflict with the Roman
Catholic church
Important People in
World History
17 Pythagorus
Important People in
World History
• Greek philosopher and
mathematician
• Credited with the idea that
mathematic formulas could help
establish patterns
• Pythagorian Theorem holds
that in a right triangle, the
square of the length of the
hypotenuse equals the sum of
the squares of the lengths of
the other two sides.
Pythagorus
Important People in
World History
18 Boyle
Important People in
World History
• English physicist and
chemist
• Discovered the nature of
elements and compounds
• 1661 published The
Skeptical Chemist that
challenged common
thinking about the four
basic elements of the day
• Boyle’s law
Robert Boyle
Important People in
World History
Marie Curie
Important People in
World History
• Proved that radio activity,
when properly applied, was an
effective treatment of some
diseases
• Discovered the elements:
polonium and radium
• Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903
and 1911
• Worked to make x-ray
technology accessible to
soldiers during World War I
19 Marie Curie
Important People in
World History
20Thomas Edison
Important People in
World History
• American Inventor-held 1,300
patents
• Credited with
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Automatic telegraph machine
Phonograph
Incandescent light bulb
Modernized telephone
Motion picture equipment
• Operated world’s 1st electric
power station
• Menlo Park “invention factory”
Thomas Edison
Important People in
World History
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Albert Einstein
Important People in
World History
• German-Jewish Physicist that
immigrated to the USA in 1933
• Theory of Relativity-energy
equals mass times the speed of
light squared
• Theories critical to the
development of the atomic
bomb
• 1921 Nobel Prize Physics
Albert Einstein
Important People in
World History
Robert Fulton
Important People in
World History
• 1807 changed
maritime
transportation with the
invention of the first
successful,
commercial steamboat
known as the
Clermont
Robert Fulton
Important People in
World History
Sir Isaac Newton
Important People in
World History
Sir Isaac Newton
• English mathematician
and physicist
• Devised principles to
explain universal
gravitation—all matter
attracts other matter
• Believed that reason
and rationality could
be applied to natural
phenomenon
Important People in
World History
Louis Pasteur
Important People in
World History
• French chemist
• Discovered that heat
could kill bacteria which
spoiled liquids.
• Pasteurization-heating
liquids to kill bacteria (esp.
in milk)
• Introduced microbiology
• Invented a rabies vaccine
Louis Pasteur
Important People in
World History
James Watt
Important People in
World History
James Watt
• Scottish engineer
• Created a steam engine
with a new type of
governor to control steam
power and engine speed.
A flywheel was attached
to convert steam power to
mechanical power
• Important to Industrial
Revolution
• Metric unit of power is
called a “watt”
Important People in
World History
Martin Luther
Important People in
World History
• Dealt the symbolic blow that
began the Reformation when
he nailed his Ninety-Five
Theses to the door of the
Wittenberg Church.
• That document contained an
attack on papal abuses and the
sale of indulgences by church
officials.
• Doctrine of justification by faith-the teaching that Christ's own
righteousness is imputed to
those who believe, and on that
ground alone, they are
accepted by God.
Martin Luther
Important People in
World History
Johannes Gutenberg
Important People in
World History
• German goldsmith and
inventor
• Credited with inventing a
movable type printing
press
• Major work: 42 line Bible
• Printing technology
spread rapidly throughout
Europe and is key to the
Renaissance
Johannes Gutenberg
Important People in
World History
Leonardo Da Vinci
Important People in
World History
• “Renaissance Man” most
famous as a painter,
sculptor, and architect
– Mona Lisa
– Last Supper
• Scientist & Engineer:
Notebooks of scientific
observation
– Anatomy, astronomy, civil
engineering, optics, and
hydrodynamics
Leonardo Da Vinci
Important People in
World History
Napoleon Bonaparte
Important People in
World History
Napoleon Bonaparte
• Rose to through the
French military to become
the Emperor of France
• Great military
commander—attempted
to conquer Europe
• Code Napoleon formed
foundation of civil law that
incorporated religious
toleration and the abolition
of serfdom
• Totalitarian state
Important People in
World History
Simon Bolivar
Important People in
World History
• Known as “The
Liberator” of South
America
• Military victories of the
Spanish colonial army
won independence for
Bolivia, Panama,
Columbia, Ecuador,
Peru, and Venezuela
Simon Bolivar
Important People in
World History
Charles Darwin
Important People in
World History
• English naturalist that
originated the concept
of natural selection
• Theoretical books
– The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural
Selection (1859)
– The Descent of Man
(1871)
Charles Darwin
Important People in
World History
Karl Marx
Important People in
World History
Karl Marx
• German philosopher and
political economist
• Communist Manifesto
(1848)
• History advances through
class struggle
• Predicted the end of
capitalism would be
brought about by the
organization of working
class, thus ushering in the
age of communism
Important People in
World History
Nelson Mandela
Important People in
World History
Nelson Mandela
• South African
revolutionary with the
African National
Congress-fought against
apartheid
• Imprisoned from 19641982 for plotting to
overthrow the government
• 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1994-1999 President of
South Africa-transition to
democratic rule