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Salvador Allende
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Chilean political leader
first socialist to be elected chilean president. (early 1970s) nationalized businesses killed during coup perhaps prompted by CIA |
Chilean socialist leader
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Fidel Castro
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marxist/leninist leader of cuba
led guerilla insurgency which overthrew dictatorship of batista in 1959 and resulted in communist government led by castro held political power until 2008 |
Cuban marxist revolutionary
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Chiang Kai-shek
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chinese military leader
participated in revolts against manchu dynasty became leader of modern china in 1920 led china in resistence to communist guerillas and japanese agression fled to taiwan where he established a modernizing government |
chinese military leader against communism
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Winston Churchill
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British leader and member of british nobility
entered parliament at age 26 and became prime minister at the beginning of WW2 coined the word iron curtain |
british prime minister during WW2
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Dalai Lama
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spiritual leader of tibetan people
considered the 14th incarnation of avalokistevara fled to india when china took control of tibet in 1959 advocated for human rights and independence of tibet through peaceful means won nobel peace prize |
tibetan spiritual figure
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Dwight Eisenhower
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military and political leader during WW2
supreme allied commander US president for 2 terms between 1953-61 during presidency, building of US interstate highway mccarthyism and brown vs board of education |
US president, military political leader
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Indira Gandhi
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Indian female prime minister from 1966-77 and 80-84
rule is remembered for india's military defeat of pakistan in 1971 assiassinated by her sikh bodyguards in the aftermath of a controversial assault on the sikh shrine at amritsar |
Female prime minister of india
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Indian lawyer and nationalist leader whoo established india's independence from britain nationwide movement of peaceful resistence
fought against poverty and the caste system inspired nonviolent movements throughout the world |
nonviolence activist leader of india
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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Soviet political leader and reformer
joined communist party and rose to its central committee by 1971 led campaign of perestroika (reconstructing) and glasnot (openness) led to dismantling of the soviet union |
USSR communist leader (perestroika and glasnot)
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Che Guevarra
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Born in argentina
travelled throughout south america and settled in guatemala and learned marxist theory exhiled from guatemala and helped castro train guerilla soldiers to take over cuba captured and shot in an attempt to revolutionize bolivia |
marxist revolutionary from argentina who worked in conjunction with Castro in cuba
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Vaclev Havel
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Last president of czechoslovakia, 1st of the czech republic
prominent writer and dramatist wrote against communist policies imprisoned for political writings and activism led velvet revolution which brought an end to communist rule subsequently elected president |
anti-communist president of the Czech republic
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Adolf Hitler
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Founder and dictator of germany's third reich
founder and leader of nazi party promoted anti-semitism german "natural superiority" ordered construction of concentrarion camps and responsible for the death of 6 million jews during WW2 |
leader of the nazi party in germany
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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iranian shiite muslim religious leader
criticized iranian shah and subsequently was led to exhile forced to leave by saddam hussein and moved to france directed strike and revolution that deposed muhammad reza shah pahlevi returned to iran in 1979 to declare an islamic republic and became the supreme reeligious and political ruler of iran |
iranian shiite muslim leader
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Vladimir Lenin
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russian revolutionary thinker, writer and leader
founder of the russian communist party studied law and lived in exhile from 1875-1917 consequent to bolshevik russian revolution to overthrow czar became rusia's first head of stae policies influenced communism and shaped global marxism |
russian marxist revolutionary, overthrew czar
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Nelson Mandela
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South african anti-apartheid political leader
born into a xhosa family law degree and became leading activist against white s. african regime imprisoned from 1962-90 upon release, negotiated transition to representative democracy became first president of new s. africa won the nobel peace prize |
s. african anti-apartheid leader
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Mao Zedong
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chinese marxist theorist, soldier and political leader
led legendary peasant revolution featuring the "long march" and took control of china revolutionized, organized and collectivized peasants and cost many lives created cult of personality around himself and "little red book" directed intellectual and cultural repressions |
chinese marxist theorist and political leader
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Ho Chi MInh
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eruopean-educated vietnamese nationalist who formed vietnam independence league
after WW2 he and his soldiers defeated french colonial regime that resulted in division of vietnam as president of n. vietnam, he led a revolt against s. vietnam that ultimately resulted in defeat of the US and the unification of vietnam |
north-vietnmese who formed vietnam independence league
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Kwame Nkrumah
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african political leader, prime minister and president educated in the US
and england helped organize pan african conference of 1945 founded convention peoples party and led resistence to british colonial rule of the gold cost (now ghana) helped found organization of african unity and formed a one-party state state with himself as president for life overthrown and exhiled in guinea until death died in romania |
african political leader, organizer of the pan african conference
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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32nd president of the US
first served as NY senator and governor and served 4 terms as president (1933-1045) suffered from polio instituted new deal program that worked to bring US out of depression |
32nd US president, new deal creator
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Leopold Senghor
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born in french west africa
poet, statesman and president of senegal from 1960-80 won a scholarship to france where he helped formulate the concept of "negritude" worked for african unity and modernization published volumes of poetry, cultural essays blending african and european thought |
senegalese president, worked toward african unity and modernization
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Joseph Stalin
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born in georgia, russian empire
early assistent to lenin in formation of the soviet union despotic ruler who presided over faines, state terror and victory over germany in WW2 |
Russian communist leader, assistent to lenin
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Margaret Thatcher
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British politician educated at oxford
chemist who became inbolved in politics led britain to a more severe, individualistic, less state run economy and society leading conservative of the 1980s fought against argentina to retain the falkland islands |
first female british prime minister
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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28th president fo the US
led US into WW1 and became creator and leading adbocate of the league of nations awarded nobel peace prize during presidency, US constitution granting voting rights for women was adopted |
28th US president, founder of the league of nations
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Malcolm X
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african-american political leader
malcolm little changed surname to x to symbolize lost african identity served 7 year prison sentence and joined nation of islam became a leader of the Nation of Islam travelled to mecca, renounced violence and changed his name to el hajj malik el shabazz |
african-american political leader who converted to Islam
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Emiliano Zapata
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Mexican revolutionary leader and agrarian reformer
led mexican revolution and overthrew dictator porfirio diaz continued to fight for further agrarian reforms and recognition of peasant's rights killed by mexican government men |
mexican revolutionary who overthrew porfirio diaz
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