New Deal. 1933-9. Roosevelt’s economic policy vs Depression. TVA, CWA, WPA.

Oakley, Annie. 1860-1926. US marksperson.

Quebec Conference. 1864. Basis of British North America Act. 1943. Allied leaders plan European landings. 1944. Churchill, Roosevelt decide on two war fronts-criticized for allowing Soviets to take Berlin.

Rajk, Laszlo. 1909-49. Hungarian communist statesman. Hung for treason. Rehabilitated 1956.

Rodgers, Richard. 1902-79. US musical comedy composer. Oklahoma 1943. South Pacific 1949. Sound of Music 1959. Hart. Hammerstein.

Roebling, John. 1806-69. US civil enginerer. First steel cable suspension bridges. Began Brooklyn Bridge.

Rohan, Prince de. 1734-1803. French cardinal duped in Diamond Necklace Affair.

Romulus. Twin brother of Remus. Suckled by a wolf, they built Rome.

Roosevelt, Franklin. 1882-1945. US president 1933-45. New Deal 1933-. Pacifist until Pearl Harbor. Four Freedoms.

Shackleton, Ernest. 1874-1922. British Antarctic explorer.

Shawnee. American Indians from Ohio defeated at Tippecanoe. Resettled in Oklahoma.

Shockley, William. 1910-89. US. Transistor 1948.

Smollett, Tobias. 1721-71. Scottish humorous novelist. Peregrine Pickle 1751.

Stein, Gertrude. 1874-1946. US avante-garde writer. Autobiography of Alice B Toklas 1933. Coined “Lost Generation”.

Strickland, Wm. 1787-1854. US Greek Revival architect.

Sturm und Drang. 1760-80. German anti-enlightenment literary movement. Goethe. Klinger.

Suckling, John. 1609-42. English poet, lyricist. Invented cribbage.

Surrealism. 1920-. Artistic and literary movement dealing with the expression of the subconscious mind, fantasy, dreams. Klee, Dali, de Chirico, Chagall.

Thatcher, Margaret. 1925-. Britain’s first woman Prime Minister 1979-. Conservative. Monetarist. Falklands War.

Trident Conference. 1943. Secret meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill to plan Normandy Invasion.

Trolls. Hostile giants of Scandinavian folklore.

Twain, Mark. (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910. US humorist: Innocents Abroad 1869. Tom Sawyer 1876. Huckleberry Finn 1885.

Voroshilov, Kliment. 1881-1969. Soviet Head of State 1953-60.

Wakley. Founded Lancet (British medical journal), 1823.

Winckler, Hugo. 1863-1913. German archaeologist. Discovered Hittite cuneiform tablets.

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