Akbar the Great
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| |Emperor of the Mughal Empire in India. |
|Akbar the Great | |
| |He is responsible for the expansion of his empire, the stability his administration gave|
| |to it, and the increasing of trade and cultural diffusion. |
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|Anwar al-Sadat |President of Egypt between 1970 and 1981. |
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| |Assassinated for making peace with Israel. |
| |President of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). |
|Arafat , Yasir | |
| |His goal is to create a homeland for the displaced Palestinians. |
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|Ayatollah Khomeini | |
| |Islamic religious leader who led a fundamentalist revolution in Iran in 1979. |
| |Latin American Nationalist |
|Simón Bolívar | |
| |Responsible for the ousting of Spain from much of South America during the 19th century.|
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|Bonaparte, Napoleon |Emperor of the French |
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| |Responsible for many French Revolution reforms as well as conquering most of Europe. |
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| |He was defeated at Waterloo |
| |Leader of the Cuban Revolution |
|Fidel Castro | |
| |Communist dictator of Cuba |
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| |The bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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|Catherine the Great |An enlightened despot who ruled over Russia. |
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| |She is responsible for many positive changes in Russia, as well as securing the country |
| |a warm water port |
| |Czar of Russia (1894-1917). |
|Czar Nicholas II | |
| |He was overthrown during the Russian Revolution of 1917. |
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|F.W. de Klerk |The white South African president |
| | |
| |ended Apartheid in the early 1990s. |
| |Nationalist leader in India |
|Gandhi, Mohandas | |
| |Led a non violent revolution to gain his country’s freedom from the British Empire. |
| |Italian Nationalist |
|Garibaldi, Guiseppe | |
| |Helped unify Italy |
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| |Led the Red Shirt army |
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|Genghis Khan |One of the Mongol’s greatest leaders and founder of the Mongol Empire. |
| |Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. |
|Gorbachev, Mikhail | |
| |His policies of Perestroika and Glasnost |
| |contributed to the downfall of communism. |
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|Theodor Herzl |Leader of Zionist movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
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|Adolf Hitler |Nazi Party in Germany |
| |Started World War II with the invasion of Poland. He was responsible for the Holocaust. |
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|Jiang Jieshi |Leader of the Nationalist Party in China. |
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|Also known as Chang Kai Shek |Fought to keep China from becoming communist. |
| |Russian revolutionary leader |
|Vladimir Lenin | |
| |He was the first leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| |Policy: NEP (New Economic Policy) |
| |Enlightenment philosopher |
|John Locke | |
| |Natural Rights, which are Life, Liberty, and Property, and that the purpose of |
| |government was to protect these rights. |
| |Known as the Sun King, he was an absolute monarch of France. |
|Louis XIV | |
| |One of his greatest accomplishments was the building of the palace at Versailles. |
| |Nationalist from Haiti |
|Toussaint L'Ouverture | |
| |Responsible for ousting France from Haiti during the Latin American Revolutions in the |
| |early 19th century |
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|Martin Luther |Theologian and religious reformer who started the Reformation |
| |95 Theses which protested church corruption, namely the sale of indulgences. |
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|Machiavelli, Niccolo |philosopher of the Renaissance |
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| |His greatest work is The Prince |
| | |
| |“the ends justifies the means.” |
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|Ferdinand Magellan |Spanish explorer who was the first to circumnavigate the globe. |
| |A black South African leader who protested the policy of Apartheid |
|Nelson Mandela | |
| |became the first black president of South Africa. |
| |Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. |
|Mansa Musa | |
| |He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East. |
| |Leader of the Communist Party in China |
|Mao Zedong |Established China as the People’s Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976. |
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| |Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution |
| |Book: The Communist Manifesto |
|Karl Marx | |
| |Father of Communism |
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| |Believed in a Classless Society |
| |Nationalistic leader in Italy |
|Mazzini | |
| |Group: Young Italy was a nationalistic movement that wanted to end foreign control of |
| |Italy. |
| |An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the |
|Michelangelo |mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character |
| |David. |
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|Slobodan Milosevic |He fought to keep non-Serbs from breaking away from Yugoslavia. |
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| |Ethnic Cleansing |
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|Mohammed |Prophet of Allah; founder of Islam. |
| |Italian leader. |
|Benito Mussolini |He founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II.|
| |Nationalist from Ghana |
|Kwame Nkrumah |Independence leader who help lead Ghana out of European imperialism after World War II. |
| |Commodore. |
|Matthew Perry |United States Navy officer who is responsible for opening Japan to trade and |
| |imperialism. |
| |Leader of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. |
|Pol Pot |Pol Pot is responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million of his own people due to |
| |starvation, execution, and beatings. |
| | His book, The Wealth of Nations |
|Adam Smith | |
| |describes his theory on free trade, otherwise known as laissez-faire economics. |
| |Leader of Soviet Union |
|Josef Stalin | |
| |5 Year Plan |
| |The Great Purge |
| |Collectivization |
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|Voltaire |Enlightenment philosopher |
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| |He believed in freedom of speech |
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| |Prussian chancellor in 1862. |
|Otto von Bismarck | |
| |Unified Germany |
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| |His policy was known as Blood and Iron.. |
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|Boris Yeltsin |President of Russia. |
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| |He was elected after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. |
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