| A | B |
|---|
| 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 |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba .. late 1950s .. still in power .. "Boat people."raft boy" |
| Jomo Kenyatta | led the fight for independence for Kenya - 1960s - Mau Mau - "Uhuru" |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | glasnost & perestroika - his reforms began the end of communism in USSR |
| Mohandas Gandhi | led the fight for independence for India from Britain |
| Nelson Mandela | led fight to end Apartheid in South Africa 1950s .. 1990 |
| Osama Bin Laden | terrorist .... leader of Al-Qa'ida |
| Pol Pot | communist leader of Khmer Rouge on Cambodia/Kampuchea [late 1970s] |
| Rigoberta Menchu | Guatemala: received the Nobel Peace Prize for trying to improve the lives of native Indians in Guatemala |
| Saddam Hussein | former leader of Iraq - once a friend of US - then PERSIAN GULF WAR ... in March 2002 .. accused of having "Weapons of Mass Destruction" .. now on trial for war crimes .. conducted chemical/biological warfare against the Kurds (ethnic group) during the 1980s |
| Shah Reza Pahlevi | ruler/westernizer of Iran 1960s & 1970s |
| Slobadan Milosevic | leader of Serbia/Yugoslavia - accused of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo |
| Vladimir Putin | "present" leader of Russia ... former KGB agent (Soviet Secret Police) |
| Yasir Arafat | leader of PLO .. tried to negotiate peace with Israel for a Palestinian homeland |
| Yitzhak Rabin | leader of Israel .. 1990s .. wanted peace with PLO - assassinatedÿ |
