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| This Fascist Leader gained power in Italy in 1922 | Benito Mussolini |
| This army officer led a coup in Persia/Iran in 1921 | Reza Khan (Later Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1925) |
| In 1928 this was a multilateral treaty that sought to make war illegal | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| This leader subdued the warlords in China and gained control in 1928 | Chiang Kai-shek |
| The Great Powers agree to appease Hitler and gave him part of Czechoslovakia in 1938 | The Munich Pact |
| This latest leader led modern Turkey after World War I and created a strong secular republic | Attaturk, (Mustafa Kemal) |
| After Lenin's death in the Soviet Union he took over and created a totalitarian dictatorship | Joseph Stalin |
| During the interwar period this nationalist leader led India to independency by using passive resistance to defy British colonial rule | Gandhi |
| The United Nations was established after World War II in what year | 1945 |
| Economic agreements among the Allied countries in 1944 established the postwar economic system | Bretton Woods (Created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) |
| He led the nationalist movement in Vietnam which eventually forced the French to leave in 1955 | Ho Chi Minh |
| He led the Communist to victory in China in 1949 | Mao Tse Tung |
| In 1948 under Soviet leadership he established the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) | Kim IL Sung |
| He succeded Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union in 1953 | Nikita Khrushchev |
| After World War II the US attempt to rebuild Europe to block potential Soviet expannsion | The Truman Doctrine |
| The state of Israel was proclaimed in May of this year and led to the first Arab-Israeli war | 1948 (Ralph Bunche, an African-American diplomat working for the UN negotiated a ceasefire and was awarded the Noble Peace Prize) |
| The first moon landing took place in 1969 | Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong (first man on the moon) and Buzz Aldrin. Michael Collins was the third member of the crew in the command module orbiting the moon. |
| In the aftermath of the first Arab-Israeli War he led a revolution which overthrew the Egyptian Monarchy | Gamal Abdul Nasser (overthrow King Farouk) |
| The second Arab-Israeli war broke out in 1956 in the aftermath of Egypt nationalizing what? | The Suez Canal |
| He was the first man to go into orbit, name this Soviet cosmonaut | Yuri Gragarin |
| In 1957 the USSR launched what first human made satellite and temporarily took the lead in the space race. | Sputnik |
| He led a coup in Chile which overthrew the socialist Salvatore Allende in 1973 | Augusto Pinochet |
| President Carter in 1979 facilitated a peace treaty between what two former enemies | Egypt and Israel |
| In 1986 this president of the Phillippines was forced out in a popular revolution | Ferdinand Marcos |
| This president of South Africa eventually agreed to negotiate with the African National Congress and ended apartheid | F. W. de Klerk |
| She was known as the Iron Lady and was the first female prime minister of Great Britain | Margaret Thatcher |
| In 1989 student demonstrations in China led to a crackdown by the Chinese government | Tiananmen Square |
| In 1979 US diplomats were held hostage in what country | Iran (they were held for 444 days) |
| He succeeded Margaret Thatcher in 1990 as prime minister of the UK after conservaties revolted against her. | John Major |
| This European Union treaty created the euro | The Treaty of Maastricht (a city in the Netherlands where the treaty was signed) |
| This leader of the Soviet Union came to power and attempted to bring about economic reforms | Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991) |
| He led the Iranian revolution in 1978-1979 | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| This leader of Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 initiating the Gulf War, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm | Saddam Hussein |
| In Feb. 2011 this President of Egypt was overthrown in a popular uprising | Hosni Mubarak |
| In October 2011 this leader of Libya was overthrown and killed in a popular uprising | Muammar al-Qaddafi |
| Terrorist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda in West Africa | Boko Haram |
| This South Korean president was impeached and removed from office in 2017 | Park Geun-hye |
| This leader of China is about to become President for Life | Xi Jinping |
| 4 members of the US military were killed in 2018 in what West African nation | Niger |
| President Trump Recently fired his Secretary of State | Rex Tillerson |
| In 2003 this space shuttle broke up when reentering the Earth's atmosphere killing all seven crew members | Columbia |
| Al-Qaeda leader was killed by a SEAL team in this country in 2011. | Pakistan |
| This current President of France has a great deal of popularity | Marcon |
| She is considered the most powerful women in the world and is the long time chancellor of Germany | Angela Merkel |
| In March 2014 Russia seized this territory from Ukraine | Crimea |
| President Trump replaced his National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster with what former UN Ambassador and Fox News Commentator | John Bolton |
