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Ali. 4th Caliph, 656-661. Son-in-law of Muhammad. Succession led to Sunni/Shi’ite split. Moslem Civil War.
Alien Registration Act. 1940. Outlaws advocating violent overthrow of US government. Extended to include all advocates of Communism. McCarthy.
Anarchism, Communistic. Marxist revolutionary version of anarchism that seeks to overthrow the state. Bakunin. Kropotkin. Assassinated: Sadi-Carnot, Empress Elizabeth, Umberto I, McKinley.
Black Codes. 1865-6. Strict US local laws to control blacks based on slave codes. Freedmen. Jim Crow.
Camel, Battle of the. 656. Basra. Ali victory in first Moslem Civil War.
Commune, Paris. 1871. Revolutionary government formed when Thiers abandoned Paris to Prussians. Crushed 2 months later by McMahon. 20,000 killed.
Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.
Dunant, Henri. 1828-1910. Swiss philanthropist. Founded Red Cross 1863, YMCA.
Jerusalem, Council. 50. Exempted Gentiles from Mosaic Law, circumcision.
Jim Crow Laws. 1877-1964. US laws allowing segregation.
Mannerheim, Carl. 1867-1951. Finnish president. 1944-6. Led fight vs Bolsheviks 1918-21, army 1939-44.
Mc. See Mac.
McAdam, John. 1756-1836. Scottish inventor of Macadam gravel road 1810...Tarmac.
McAdoo, William. 1863-1941. Founded US Federal Reserve Board 1913. Raised $18B for war effort.
McCarthy, Joseph. 1909-57. US senator, fanatical anti-Communist demagogue.
McClure, Robert. 1807-73. British naval commander. First Northwest Passage crossing by boat and sledge 1853-4.
McCormick, Cyrus. 1809-84. US inventor of reaper 1834. Founded International Harvester.
McCrae, John. 1872-1918. Canadian physician/poet. In Flanders Fields.
McKinley, William. 1843-1901. US President 1897-. Spanish American War. Gained Hawaii. Assassinated by anarchist.
McLuhan, Marshall. 1911-80. Canadian author on effect of media on society. Gutenberg Galaxy. -“Global Village”.-“Medium is the message”.
McNaughton, Andrew. 1887-1966. Canadian WWII commander in England. Invented direction finder.
McPherson, Aimee Semple.1890-1944. Controversial Canadian/US Pentacostal evangelist.
Muckrakers. 1906-12. US reporters expose corruption. Sinclair. Collier. McClure.
Muslim Civil War. 656-61 Sunni Muawiya defeats Shi’ite Ali for leadership starting Umayyad dynasty. 683-92 Umayyad put down Syrian rebellion. 809-13 Iraq vs Iran. 1008-31 Moslem Spanish gain autonomy from Umayyad.
Northwest Passage. Attempts 1497- to find a sea route around Canada to Asia. Amundsen succeeded 1903-6. McClure 1853.