335710103 | Archduke Ferdinand | - Austria- Hungary - 18th Century - Assassination caused World War 2 | 0 | |
335710104 | Tsar Nicholas 2 | - Russian - 19th century - Ordered partial mobilization of the Russian Army against Austria | 1 | |
335710109 | Leon Trotsky | - Russian - 17-18th century - Seized power (in Russia) in the name of the soviets | 2 | |
335710108 | Vladimir Lenin | - Russian - 17-18th century - Opened the stage for Russian Revolution | 3 | |
335710140 | Erwin Rommel | - German - (1891-1994) - Desert Fox, was a German Field Marshal of World War 2; officer in World War 1 | 4 | |
335710129 | Winston Churchill | - German - (1874-1965) - Believed that destroying German communities would break civilian moral and bring victory | 5 | |
335710105 | Alexandra | - German - 19th century - Made bad decisions that impacted her husband's decisions | 6 | |
335710131 | Heinrich Himmler | - German - (1900-1945) - Was Reichsfuhrer of the SS; a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi | 7 | |
335710143 | Albert Einstein | - German - (1879-1953) - Theoretical physicist who developed the theory of General relativity, effecting a revolution in physics | 8 | |
335710141 | Reinhard Heydrich | - German - (1904-1942) - High-ranking German Nazi official during World War 2 and one of the main architects of The Holocaust | 9 | |
335710127 | Adolf Hitler | - German - (1889-1945) - Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the national socialist German workers party; Chancellor of Germany | 10 | |
335710138 | Herman Goering | - German - (1893-1946) - German Politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party; Veteran of World War 2 | 11 | |
335710149 | Hermann Hesse | - German - (1877-1962) - German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter; in 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature | 12 | |
335710135 | George 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 2 | 13 | |
335710112 | Woodrow Wilson | - American - 18-19h century - Involved in WW2 (brought U.S. into it) | 14 | |
335710133 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | - American - (1890-1969) - Allies landed 5 assault divisions on the beaches of Normandy on June 6 1944, in history's greatest naval invasions | 15 | |
335710134 | Douglas 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 theater | 16 | |
335710128 | Franklin Roosevelt | - American - (1882-1945) - 32nd president of the U.S. and a central figure in the world during the mid-20th century | 17 | |
335710146 | Chester 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 Forces | 18 | |
335710147 | Harry S. Truman | - American - (1884-1972) - 33rd President of the U.S. | 19 | |
335710144 | Omar 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. Army | 20 | |
335710106 | Rasputin | - Siberian - 19th century - Influenced Alexandra | 21 | |
335710107 | Lawrence of Arabia | - Welch - 18-19th century - Helped the Arabs against the Turks | 22 | |
335710110 | David 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 1926 | 23 | |
335710113 | John Maynard Keynes | - British - 18th-19th century - Helped by trying out economic ideas (wrote the end of Laissez-Faire) | 24 | |
335710136 | Bernard Montgomery | - British - (1887-1976) - British Army officer, demanded the 8th Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert | 25 | |
335710130 | Neville Chamberlain | - British - (1869-1940) - British conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for May 1937 to May 1940 | 26 | |
335710132 | Charles Degaulle | - French - (1890-1970) - French General and statesman who led the Free French Forces during WW2; founded French Fifth Republican in 1958 | 27 | |
335710111 | Georges 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 Versailles | 28 | |
335710114 | Mustafa Kemal | - Turkish - (1881-1938) - Commanded Turkish forces in their defenses of the Dardanelles against a British invasion during World War 1 | 29 | |
335710115 | Reza Khan | - Persian - (1878-1944) - Led a mutiny that seized power in Tahran | 30 | |
335710116 | Ibn Saud | - Arabian - (1880-1944) - United Arab tribes in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula and drove out the remnants of Ottoman Rule | 31 | |
335710122 | Juan Vincente Gomez | - Native American - (1857-1935) - Military general and de facto ruler of Venezuala from 1908 until his death | 32 | |
335710117 | Mohandis Gandhi | - Indian - 18-19th century - Tried to remove British rule from India | 33 | |
335710118 | Jawaharial Nehru | - Indian - 18-19th century - Social reformer | 34 | |
335710119 | Sun Yat-Sen | - Chinese - 18-19th century - Helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty | 35 | |
335710120 | Chiang Kai-Shek | - Chinese - 18-19th century - Elimination of the communists from the organization | 36 | |
335710121 | Mao Zedong | -Chinese -18-19th century -Nationalist Party's power increased | 37 | |
335710123 | Lazaro Cardenas | - Mexican - (1895-1970) - President in 1934; redistributed 44 million acres of land controlled by landed elites | 38 | |
335710124 | Benito Mussolini | - Italian - (1883-1945) - Began his political career as a socialist; established a new political group the Fascio di Combattimento | 39 | |
335710125 | Joseph Stalin | - Italian - (1879-1953) - Used his post as party general secretary to gain complete control of the communist party | 40 | |
335710126 | Francisco Franco | - Spanish - (1892-1975) - Spanish general, dictator and the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion in the Spanish civil war | 41 | |
335710148 | Salvador Dali | - Spanish - (1904-1989) - Prominent Spanish surrealist painter; best known for the striking and bizarre images in surrealist work | 42 | |
335710137 | Hideki 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 2 | 43 | |
335710145 | Isoroku Yamamoto | - Japanese - (1884-1943) - Japanese Naval marshal General and the commander-in chief of the combined fleet during World War 2 | 44 | |
335710139 | Rudolf Hess | - Egyptian - (1894-1987) - Prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930's and early 1940's | 45 | |
335710142 | Richard Oppenheimer | - - - | 46 |
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