| A | B |
| Indira Gandhi | 1st female ruler of India [1960s, 1970s] - tried to solve India's overpopulation problem |
| Jiang Zemin | present leader of Communist China - FOR trade with West BUT "human rights" ? |
| Jomo Kenyatta | led the fight for independence for Kenya - 1960s - Mau Mau - "Uhuru" |
| Khrushchev | leader of Communist USSR - took over from Stalin - Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Kwame Nkrumah | led the fight for independence for Ghana [1st in Africa to do so] - 1950s |
| Lech Walesa | leader of Polish Solidarity movement - 1980s - against Communism |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | present leader of Iran (2006) ... fundamentalist, hardliner .. talks out 2 sides of his mouth .. says Iran's nuclear intension are peaceful .. energy, BUT this could also give Iran a nuclear military capability ... says Israel does not have the right to exist & that the Holocaust never existed .. reminiscent of Nazi Germany |
| Menachem Begin | Israeli leader who signed Camp David Accords |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | glasnost & perestroika - his reforms began the end of communism in USSR |
| Mohammed Ali Jinnah | wanted an independent [Muslim] Pakistan |
| Mohandas Gandhi | led the fight for independence for India from Britain |
| Nelson Mandela | led fight to end Apartheid in South Africa 1950s - - -> 1990 |