167370372 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary before the first World War | 0 | |
167370373 | Gavrilo Princip | Serbian nationalist who shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914 | 1 | |
167370374 | Czar Nicholas | Abdicated his throne in February of 1917 to end the Romanov Dynasty | 2 | |
167370375 | Alexander Kerensky | Established a provisional government after the Romanov Dynasty ended | 3 | |
167370376 | Leon Trotsky | Commanded the Red Army of the Bolsheviks, supported Lenin | 4 | |
167370377 | Ataturk | Also known as Mustafa Kemal, abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state | 5 | |
167370378 | Joseph Stalin | Took control of the Russian communist party after Lenin died, imposed the Five Year Plans (collectivization) | 6 | |
167370379 | Franklin Roosevelt | Instituted New Deal to counter the great depression and led country during World War II | 7 | |
167370380 | Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II | 8 | |
167370381 | Francisco Franco | Spanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939, ruled as a dictator until his death | 9 | |
167370382 | Neville Chamberlain | Prime Minister of England, present at the Munich Conference of 1938 | 10 | |
167370383 | Winston Churchill | Replaced Chamberlain as Britain's leader, refused a deal with Germany leading to the Battle of Britain in 1940 | 11 | |
167370384 | Harry Truman | Authorized use of atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 12 | |
167370385 | Sun Yat-sen | Led Chinese Revolution of 1911 under the "Three Principles of the People," established Guomindang | 13 | |
167370386 | Chiang Kai-shek | Sun yat-sen's successor, made Guomindang ruling party of China for a short time | 14 | |
167370387 | Mao Zedong | Leader of the Chinese communist party, established the People's Republic of China by 1949 | 15 | |
167370388 | Deng Xiaoping | Took office in 1976 following Mao's death, changed education policy and restructured economic policies | 16 | |
167370389 | General MacArthur | American military leader during World War II, liberated the Phillipines and made the Japanese surrender at Tokyo in 1945, drove back North Korean invaders during the Korean War | 17 | |
167370390 | Ho Chi Minh | Led (North) Vietnam communist party, used guerilla warfare to fight anti-comunist | 18 | |
167370391 | Ngo Dinh Diem | Led (South) Vietnam democratic party | 19 | |
167370392 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew Batista in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba | 20 | |
167370393 | John Kennedy | US president who authorized Bay of Pigs Invasion and made threats agains the USSR in the Cuban Missile Crisis | 21 | |
167370394 | Lech Walesa | Led Solidarity movement in Poland | 22 | |
167370395 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Became leader of USSR in 1985, instituted glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring economy) | 23 | |
167370396 | Mohandas Gandhi | Leader and philosopher of India, favored India's independence from Great Britain, practiced passive resistance | 24 | |
167370397 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian Muslim politician, founded the state of Pakistan, joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913, leader of the league from 1920s on | 25 | |
167370398 | Gamal Nasser | General in Egyptian army who overthrew the king of South Africa and established a republic | 26 | |
167370399 | Nelson Mandela | Leader of the African National Congress in the 1950s, first elected president in 1994 after being released form prison | 27 | |
167370400 | Arthur Balfour | British foreign secretary who supported Zionism (Jewish nationalism) | 28 | |
167370401 | David Ben-Gurion | First prime minister of Israel, Zionist who organized resistance against the British after World War II | 29 | |
167370402 | Prime Minister Begin | Israeli prime minister, signed Camp David Accords | 30 | |
167370403 | President Sadat | Egyptian president, signed Camp David Accords | 31 | |
167370404 | Ariel Sharon | Prime minister in Israel, violence escalated after he took office, established peace with Palestine | 32 | |
167370405 | Reza Shah Pahlavi | Rose to power in 1925 to westernize Iran, instituted land reform and education reform | 33 | |
167927239 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Led Iranian Revolution to send Iran back to a theocracy, reversed westernization/modernization | 34 | |
167927240 | Saddam Hussein | Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran, his invasion of Kuwait (1990) led to the Gulf War | 35 | |
167927241 | Osama bin Laden | Leader of Al Queda, declared war against the US in 1996 | 36 |
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