AP World History: Period 6 Must-know People Flashcards
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| 6436522913 | Woodrow Wilson | American politician; served as president from 1913-1921; made 14 points (proposed peace agreement to end WWI) | 0 | |
| 6436522914 | Mustapha Kemal | Founder and leader of the Republic of Turkey 1923-1938; modernized and westernized Turkey; known as Atatürk | 1 | |
| 6436522915 | Vladimir I. Lenin | Russian communist politician and revolutionary; lead during the reign of the Soviet Union and several other times in the early 20th century; leader of the Bolshevik Revolution | 2 | |
| 6436522916 | Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet union from the mid 1920's to 1953; caused the death of millions of people (including during the Great Purge); supporting and revolutionary in the Bolshevik Revolution | 3 | |
| 6436522917 | Adolf Hitler | German political leader of the Nazi Party; Chancellor 1933-1945; Führer 1934-1945; caused the Holocaust and death of millions of Jews | 4 | |
| 6436522918 | Mussolini | Italian political leader of the National Fascist Party; Prime Minister from 1922-1943; enteredItaly into WW2 on the side of the Axis Powers | 5 | |
| 6436522919 | Nicholas II | Final Russian Emperor 1894-1917; approves Russian mobilization in WW1; Loses the Russo-Japanese War; abdication leads to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty | 6 | |
| 6436522920 | Osama bin Laden | Founder of al-Qaeda; declared war on the U.S. in 1996; caused the September 11th terrorism attacks; shot and killed in 2011 | 7 | |
| 6436522921 | Porfirio Diaz | Mexican general and president from 1876-1911; ruled throughout the Porfiriato period; 8th election caused the Mexican Revolution | 8 | |
| 6436522922 | Sun Yat-sen / Sun Yixian | Chinese writer, physician, and philosopher; founder and leader of the Republic of China in 1912 | 9 | |
| 6436522923 | Mao Zedong / Mao Tse-tung | Revolutionary for Chinese Communism; founded the People's Republic of China; caused the death of millions of Chinese people through camps, starvation, and executions | 10 | |
| 6436522924 | Mohandas Gandhi | Lead the Indians to independence from Britain; activist for women's rights, religious peace, and an end to poverty; peaceful protestor; famous for Salt March | 11 | |
| 6436522925 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Lawyer/politician who founded Pakistan; Lead the All-India Muslim League from 1913-1947; proposed fourteen point constitutional reform plan | 12 | |
| 6436522926 | Jomo Kenyatta | Prime minister/first president of Kenya 1963-1978; founding father of the Kenyan nation | 13 | |
| 6436522927 | Kwame Nkrumah | Lead Ghana's 1957 independence from Britain; first prime minister and president of Ghana 1957-1966; leader of the colonial Gold Coast | 14 | |
| 6436522928 | Kim Il-Sung | Overall leader and founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1948-1994; leader during the Korean War | 15 | |
| 6436522929 | Martin Luther King | American Baptist minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement; known for leading Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, and delivering "I Have A Dream" speech | 16 | |
| 6436522930 | Pablo Picasso | influential Spanish artist of the 20th century; spent adult life in France; developed constructed sculpture, co-developed collage and Cubist movement | 17 | |
| 6436522931 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader; helped found the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; prime minister (1945-55) and president (1945-69); founded People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War | 18 | |
| 6436522932 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 2nd president of Egypt (1956-1970); led the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy and later introduced land reforms; nationalized Egypt/Arab world through Suez Canal | 19 | |
| 6436522933 | Deng Xiaoping | Chinese revolutionary and statesman; supreme leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978-1989; responsible for market-economy reforms and opening the global economy | 20 | |
| 6436522934 | Fidel Castro | Cuban revolutionary and politician; Prime Minister (1959-76) then President (1976-2008) of the Republic of Cuba; made Cuba a one-party socialist state; inspired by Marx and Lenin | 21 | |
| 6436522935 | Kaiser William II | the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (r. 1888-1918); led Germany on a "New Course" in foreign affairs that caused its support of Austria-Hungary in WWI | 22 | |
| 6436522936 | Nikita Khrushchev | Cold War politician of the Soviet Union (1953-64); responsible for de-Stalinization, launch of the Soviet space program, and relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy | 23 | |
| 6436522937 | Yasser Arafat | Palestinian political leader; Arab nationalist; Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 1969-2004; President of Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004; founding member and leader (1959-2004) of the Fatah political party | 24 | |
| 6436522938 | Anwar Sadat | Successor to Gamal Abdul Nasser as ruler of Egypt (1970-81); known for dismantling costly state programs, opening Egypt to investment by Western nations, and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty; assassinated in 1981 | 25 | |
| 6436522939 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 8th/final leader of the Soviet Union; held various political offices from 1985-91; policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) and reorientation of Soviet strategic aims led to end of Cold War | 26 | |
| 6436522940 | Ronald Reagan | American actor and politician; 40th U.S. president (1981-89); ran on a campaign based on the common man and populist ideas; meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War; developed Reagannomics | 27 | |
| 6436522941 | Margaret Thatcher | British stateswoman; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-90; first woman to be Prime Minister and the longest to hold the office in the 20th century; implemented policies known as Thatcherism | 28 | |
| 6436522942 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary and politician; founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran; leader of 1979 Iranian Revolution; Supreme Leader of Iran (1979-89) | 29 | |
| 6436522943 | Nelson Mandela | South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist; African nationalist and socialist; President of South Africa (1994-99); country's first Black head of state and first elected in a fully representative democratic election; government dismantled apartheid and racism | 30 | |
| 6436522944 | Saddam Hussein | 5th president of Iraq 1979-2003; took part in the July 17 Revolution; nationalized oil and industry; cruel dictator | 31 | |
| 6436522945 | Chiang Kai-Shek | Leader of the Republic of China 1928-1975; made peace with China's warlords; ruled the island of Taiwan (and indirectly the Republic of China) throughout the period of "White Terror" | 32 | |
| 6436522946 | Harry Truman | 33rd President of the United states; led the Cold War; intervened in the Korean War; implemented the Marshall Plan; a founder of the UN; desegregated American armed forces; to end World War 2 he used nuclear weaponry | 33 | |
| 6436522947 | Hideki Tojo | General in Imperial Japanese Army; led the Imperial Rule Assistance Association; 40th Japanese Prime Minister during World War 2; launched the attack on Pearl Harbor; sentenced to death for war crimes | 34 | |
| 6436522948 | Jawaharlal Nehru | India's 1st Prime Minister 1947-64; took part in fight for Indian Independence; considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state | 35 | |
| 6436522949 | John Maynard Keynes | British economist; founded modern macroeconomics; proposed policies to reduce the effects of recessions; | 36 | |
| 6440955378 | Josephine Walk, Ana Rivera, Erin Hobday | made this quizlet. ur welcome | 37 |