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335710103Archduke Ferdinand- Austria- Hungary - 18th Century - Assassination caused World War 20
335710104Tsar Nicholas 2- Russian - 19th century - Ordered partial mobilization of the Russian Army against Austria1
335710109Leon Trotsky- Russian - 17-18th century - Seized power (in Russia) in the name of the soviets2
335710108Vladimir Lenin- Russian - 17-18th century - Opened the stage for Russian Revolution3
335710140Erwin Rommel- German - (1891-1994) - Desert Fox, was a German Field Marshal of World War 2; officer in World War 14
335710129Winston Churchill- German - (1874-1965) - Believed that destroying German communities would break civilian moral and bring victory5
335710105Alexandra- German - 19th century - Made bad decisions that impacted her husband's decisions6
335710131Heinrich Himmler- German - (1900-1945) - Was Reichsfuhrer of the SS; a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi7
335710143Albert Einstein- German - (1879-1953) - Theoretical physicist who developed the theory of General relativity, effecting a revolution in physics8
335710141Reinhard Heydrich- German - (1904-1942) - High-ranking German Nazi official during World War 2 and one of the main architects of The Holocaust9
335710127Adolf Hitler- German - (1889-1945) - Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the national socialist German workers party; Chancellor of Germany10
335710138Herman Goering- German - (1893-1946) - German Politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party; Veteran of World War 211
335710149Hermann Hesse- German - (1877-1962) - German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter; in 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature12
335710135George S.Patton- American - (1885-1945) - U.S. army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War 213
335710112Woodrow Wilson- American - 18-19h century - Involved in WW2 (brought U.S. into it)14
335710133Dwight D. Eisenhower- American - (1890-1969) - Allies landed 5 assault divisions on the beaches of Normandy on June 6 1944, in history's greatest naval invasions15
335710134Douglas MacArthur- American - (1880-1964) - American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army; he was a chief of staff of the U.S. army during the 1930's; role in pacific theater16
335710128Franklin Roosevelt- American - (1882-1945) - 32nd president of the U.S. and a central figure in the world during the mid-20th century17
335710146Chester Nimitz- American - (1885-1966) - 5-Star admiral of the U.S. Navy, held the dual commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet for U.S. Naval Forces18
335710147Harry S. Truman- American - (1884-1972) - 33rd President of the U.S.19
335710144Omar Bradley- American - (1893-1981) - A senior U.S. army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War 2; a general of the army in the U.S. Army20
335710106Rasputin- Siberian - 19th century - Influenced Alexandra21
335710107Lawrence of Arabia- Welch - 18-19th century - Helped the Arabs against the Turks22
335710110David Lloyd George- British - (1863-1945) - Prime minister of the United Kingdom at the head of the war time coalition government between 1916-22; leader of Liberal Party 192623
335710113John Maynard Keynes- British - 18th-19th century - Helped by trying out economic ideas (wrote the end of Laissez-Faire)24
335710136Bernard Montgomery- British - (1887-1976) - British Army officer, demanded the 8th Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert25
335710130Neville Chamberlain- British - (1869-1940) - British conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for May 1937 to May 194026
335710132Charles Degaulle- French - (1890-1970) - French General and statesman who led the Free French Forces during WW2; founded French Fifth Republican in 195827
335710111Georges Clemenceau- French - (1841-1929) - Served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 to 1920; major voice in designing the Treaty of Versailles28
335710114Mustafa Kemal- Turkish - (1881-1938) - Commanded Turkish forces in their defenses of the Dardanelles against a British invasion during World War 129
335710115Reza Khan- Persian - (1878-1944) - Led a mutiny that seized power in Tahran30
335710116Ibn Saud- Arabian - (1880-1944) - United Arab tribes in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula and drove out the remnants of Ottoman Rule31
335710122Juan Vincente Gomez- Native American - (1857-1935) - Military general and de facto ruler of Venezuala from 1908 until his death32
335710117Mohandis Gandhi- Indian - 18-19th century - Tried to remove British rule from India33
335710118Jawaharial Nehru- Indian - 18-19th century - Social reformer34
335710119Sun Yat-Sen- Chinese - 18-19th century - Helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty35
335710120Chiang Kai-Shek- Chinese - 18-19th century - Elimination of the communists from the organization36
335710121Mao Zedong-Chinese -18-19th century -Nationalist Party's power increased37
335710123Lazaro Cardenas- Mexican - (1895-1970) - President in 1934; redistributed 44 million acres of land controlled by landed elites38
335710124Benito Mussolini- Italian - (1883-1945) - Began his political career as a socialist; established a new political group the Fascio di Combattimento39
335710125Joseph Stalin- Italian - (1879-1953) - Used his post as party general secretary to gain complete control of the communist party40
335710126Francisco Franco- Spanish - (1892-1975) - Spanish general, dictator and the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion in the Spanish civil war41
335710148Salvador Dali- Spanish - (1904-1989) - Prominent Spanish surrealist painter; best known for the striking and bizarre images in surrealist work42
335710137Hideki Tojo- Japanese - (1884-1948) - General of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Tisei Yokusankai and the Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War 243
335710145Isoroku Yamamoto- Japanese - (1884-1943) - Japanese Naval marshal General and the commander-in chief of the combined fleet during World War 244
335710139Rudolf Hess- Egyptian - (1894-1987) - Prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930's and early 1940's45
335710142Richard Oppenheimer- - -46

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