| A | B |
|---|
| Anwar Sadat | Egyptian leader who signed Camp David Accords - assassinated for doing it |
| Arial Sharon | leader of Israel 2005 .. tried to help resolve Intifada by removing Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip .. also built a fence 12 feet high to separate/secure Jewish areas from Palestinian areas |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Islamic Fundamentalist leader of Iran in 1980s - - -> theocratic rule |
| Ayatollah Khatami | influential religious leader of Iran ... a trying to bring some reforms to Iran ... but still having trouble with Islamic Fundamentalist religious leaders |
| Boris Yeltsin | leader of Russia - 1990s - ineffective ruler - economy a mess - corruption in govt. |
| Brezhnev | communist HARDLINER - leader of Soviet Union - 1960s & 1970s - d‚tente - BUT keep things communist |
| Dalai Lama | spiritual leader of Buddhism in Tibet |
| Deng Xiaoping | modernizer of Communist China 1980s - "Four Modernizations" |
| F.W. de Klerk | last white minority ruler of South Africa [up to early 1990s |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba - late 1950s - still in power - "Boat people/"raft boy" |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | leader of Egypt in 1950s - NATIONALIZED the Suez Canal in 1956 |
| Ho Chi Minh | led the fight for independence for Vietnam from France - a Communist - VietCong |
