| A | B |
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| Jomo Kenyatta | Leader of nationalist movement in Kenya. |
| Nelson Mandela | Leader of the African National Congress, fought aparteid imprisoned for 28 years. |
| Desmond Tutu | Anglican Bishop of South Africa |
| Indira Gandhi | Daughter of Nehru, became first female Prime Minister of India and declared a state of emergency in 1975. |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | Believed passive non-violent, civil disobedience. Created a mass movement against the British control of India. |
| Jawaharial Nehru | Key member and leader of the Indian National Congress. India's first Prime Minister. |
| Mohammed Ali Jinnah | An organizer of the Muslim League. Became the first leader of Independent Pakistan. |
| Ho Chi Minh | founder of the Viet Minh. Leader of the Communist Party in Vietnam. |
| Sun Yatsen | Led a popular revolt against the Manchu Dynasty. Founder of the Nationalist Party in China. Believed in the three Principals of the People. |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Military learder of the Nationalist Party in China. Retreated to the island of Taiwan and set up Nationalist China when Communists took control of China. |
| Mao Zedong | Founder of the Communist Party in China, 1921. Led the People's Democratic Republic of China from 1949-1976. |
| Yasir Arafat | Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) |
| Golda Meir | Early Zionist leader in Palestine. Served as Prime Minister of Israel. |
| Ameratsu | the Sun Goddess of Japanese Mythology. |
| Jimmu Tenno | the first emperor of Japan |
| Minamoto Yoritomo | the first shogun of Japan |
| Muhammad | founder and major prophet of Islamic faith |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese Communist leader who brought about economic reforms and was responsible for the Tiananmen Square incident. |
| Anwar Sadat | President of Egypt who signed the Camp David Peace Accords. |
| Mutsuhito Meiji | Emperor who modernized Japan after the Tokagawa Isolation. |
| F.W. de Klerk | Prime Minister who ended apartheid in South Africa. |
| Menachem Begin | Prime Minister of Israel who signed the Camp David Peace Accords. |
| Pol Pot | Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia who killed his own people. |
| Confucius | Chinese philosopher whose ideas helped shape China. |
| Theodore Herzel | wrote "The Jewish State" which started the Zionist movement |
| Indira Gahdhi | Indian Prime Minister who delared a "state of emergency" in 1975 |
