| A | B |
|---|
| Louis XIV (1638-1715) | Absolute ruler of France who built the palace at Versailles |
| Peter the Great (1682-1725) | Russian czar who instituted Westernization |
| Catherine the Great(1762-1796) | continued Westernization,expanded Russia's boundaries and increased trade with Europe |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) | came to power at end of revolution,formed a French empire |
| Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) | Led the Communist Revolution 1917, 1st leader of Soviet Union |
| Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) | Sovoet Union leader who established Totalitarian state, Five Yr. Plans |
| Mohandas Ghandi (1917-1984) | leader of India's independence movement, passive resistance |
| Mao Zedong (1893-1976) | set up a Communist dictatorship in China |
| Deng Xiaoping (1904-1996) | modernnized china by reforming economy |
| Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) | leader of Nazi Party in Germany, responsible for Holocaust, WWII |
| Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-present) | introduced Perestroika, Glasnost in Soviet Union |
| Saddam Hussein | dictator of Iraqsince 1979, responsible for Gulf War |
| Fidel Castro (1927-present) | set up Communist dictatorship in Cuba |
| Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) | Latin Am. freedom fighter sought independence for Central and S. American countries |
| Martin Luther (1483-1546) | began the Protestant Reformation-breaking away from Catholic church |
| Johann Gutenberg (1398-1468) | inventor of moveable type for printing, start of mass production of books |
| John Locke (1632-1704) | bvelieved gov't power should come from the people |
| Karl Marx (1818-1883) | set the basic ideas of communism |
| Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | used scientific method to develp law of gravity |
| Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) | wrote "The Prince" "the means justifies the ends" |
