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made the first successful airplane flight

Wright Brothers

100

Whose death caused the beginning of World War I?

Archduke Ferdinand

100

What was the largest British offensive in the East during World War I called?

Gallipoli Campaign

200

Who developed the theories of relativity?

Einstein

200

Who formed the Soviet Union in 1922?

Lenin

200

The Russian empress who embraced Western ideas?

Catherine the Great

300

Who was Karl Marx's close friend and co-author of the Communist Manifesto

Friedrich Engels

300

The First Russian Czar

Ivan the Terrible

300

developed the quantum theory of matter and energy

Max Planck

400

American "ace" pilot

Eddie Rickenbacker

400

commander of the American Expeditionary Force

John J. Pershing

400

Who was President of the United States during World War I?

Wilson

500

supreme commander of all Central Powers forces

Paul von Hindenburg

500

theorized that a mosquito carries yellow fever

Carlos Finlay

500

This man was the leader of Russia's Provisional Government

Kerensky

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