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| Haitian priest who taught liberation theology and became rule in 1990s |
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| American astronaut and the first person to step on the Moon |
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| Israeli politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel; also head of Zionist group |
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| British prime minister during WWII; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults |
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| 42nd President of the United States |
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| biologist who developed theory of evolution of species |
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| elected president of Mexico in 1876; dominated Mexican politics for 35 years; imposed strong central government |
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| archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I |
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| Viennese physician; developed theories of the workings of the human subconscious; argued that behavior is determined by impulses |
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| French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile |
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| soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms |
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| a military officer who succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leader of the Guomindang or Nationalist Paty in Chine; became most powerful leader in China. |
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| leader of nonviolent nationalist party in Kenya; organized KAU; failed to win concessions because of resistance of white settlers; came to power after suppression of Land Freedom Army (Mau Mau) |
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| Soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin |
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| Former South African activist, Nobel peace prize winner, and the first black South African president |
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| tenth president of the Philippines |
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| Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India |
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| forcefully suppressed political opposition and resisted constitutional government; deposed by revolution in 1917 |
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| The Gandhi of Africa," led fight for independence of the British colony of the Gold Coast; became the prime minister of Gold Coast |
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| leader in Iran who brought nationalism and reform under dictatorship |
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| Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916) |
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| first monarch of Saudi Arabia. |
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| he first female Prime Minister of the UK |
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| first kaiser of united germany |
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| communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution |
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| slogan introduced by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev |
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| instability in one country may spill over into neighbors |
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| Divine Wind" which saved Japan from the Mongol invaders |
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| treaty of friendship, co-operation, and mutual assistance" including the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central Europe. |
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| Economic aid from the United States used to rebuild Europe after World War II |
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