| A | B |
|---|
| Chiang Kai Shek | Leader of the Nationalists in China |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the communists in China, ist leader of the People's Republic of China |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader in Vietnam, led Vietnam to independence from France. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of USSR after Stalin. He "de-Stalinized" Russia and was leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| John F. Kennedy | US president during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Fidel Castro | Communist dictator of Cuba |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | German leader who expanded Germany's military power |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Austrian heir whose assassination started WWI |
| Woodrow Wilson | American President who led America into WWI and developed a peace plan for the war's settlement |
| Tsar Nicolas II | last Tsar of Russia, overthrown by revolutionaries and eventualy killed by the Bolsheviks |
| Vladimir Lenin | leader of Bolsheviks, he established a communist government for Russia |
| Joseph Stalin | suceeded Lenin as leader of the USSR |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator who ruled Italy |
| Adolf Hitler | Fascist leader in Germany who headed the Nazi party |
| Emperor Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during interwar period and WWII |
| Hideki Tojo | military general in Japan who came to dominate the Japanese government as a dictator. |
| Mohandas Gandhi | "The Great Soul" leader of India's independence movement he stressed civil disobedience and nonviolence |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Leader of INC, became first prime minister of independent India |
| Jomo Kenyatta | led Kenya to its independence from Britain |
| Nelson Mandela | leader of ANC in S. Africa, he was a political prisoner for 30 years and would be elected President of S. Africa after his release |
| Douglas MacArthur | US general who occupied Japan after the war, overseeing its reconstruction |
| George Marshall | US general and Sec. of State that developed an aid package to help rebuild Europe |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of USSR during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Nazi Germany during WWII |
| Hideki Tojo | Military leader of Japan during WWII |
| Emperor Hirohito | Japanese emperor during WWII, he urged for surrender after US atomic attack |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII, he long advocated standing up to Hitler |
| Indira Gandhi | prime minister of India who developed India's nuclear arsenal and established a closer relationship with the USSR |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese leader who reformed the Communist system by making it a market economy |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime minister of Britain who established closer ties with the USA and strengthened the British military |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | last leader of the USSR he tore down Berlin Wall and implemented reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika |
| Golda Meir | leader of Israle in Yom Kippur war, sought a claser relationship with the US |
| Gamal Abdul Nasser | president of Egypt who nationalized suez canal and established a closer relationship with the USSR |
| Idi Amin | known as "Butcher of Uganda" horrible dictator in africa |
| Charles de Gaulle | led French resistance agains Nazi Rule during WWII |
| Pol Pot | leader of gneocide in Cambodia |
| Ali Jinnah | leader of Muslim LEague in India prior to partition of India (created Pakistan various other countries from Indian territory) |
| Lech Walesa | led Polish Solidarity movement as head of union, major facotr in ending communism in E. Europe |
| Tito | communist leader of Yugoslavia, established Yugoslavia as a communist country independent of USSR control |
| Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | 1st president of Republic of Turkey |
| Neville Chamberlain | British PM at beginning of WWII declared "peace in our time" after munich conference negotiations with Hitler in 1938, favored appeasement |
| Boris Yeltsin | helped stop communist military coup in Russia 1991, 1st preseident of Russian Republic, famous for being drunk in public...a lot. |
| Che Guevara | Agrentinian born revolutionary. helped lead revolution in Cuba, eventually killed in Bolivia after leading revolutionary activities. famous t-shirt image for hippies and college students |
| Steve Biko | socialist South African anti-apartheid activist, killed as political prisoner in South Africa. |
