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World Geo Flash Card (Leaders)
Leaders and important people
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Geography
10th Grade
06/12/2010

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Nouri Al- Maliki
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current prime minister of Iraq
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Hamid Karzai
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Current president of Afghanistan
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Mahmud Abbas
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Current president of the PA
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Ban Ki Moon
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Current Secretary General of the UN
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Asaf Zardari
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Current President of Pakistan
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Current President of Iran
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Abdullah II
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Current King of Jordan
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Yasser Arafat
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Former president of the PA/ Leader of the PLO/ dead
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Mir Hossein Moussavi
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Opponent of Ahmidinejad in June. Fraud suspect
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Bashar Al-Assad
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Current Prsident of Syria
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Current Prime Minister of Israel
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Guy who advocated for a seperate Pakistan during the Indian Independence movement
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Manmohan Singh
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Current Prime Minister of India
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Muhammad Yunus
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A nobel Prize Winner. Found the Grameen Bank - micro financing. Helped the poor Indians
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Hu Jintao
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Current President of China and Current leader of the CCP
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Dalai Lama
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Spiritual and political leader of Tibet
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Sun Yat-Sen
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Man who led the revolution against the Manchu's of the Qing Dynasty. Established Nationalist Republic in 1911
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader of China. Established the PRC in 1949. Had the Red book. Body is kept in Tianamen Square
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Siddharta Buddah
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Symbol of Buddhism. He has extended earlobes -> representing letting go of earthly possesions
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Chang Kai Shek
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Nationalist leader who fought against Mao. Lost to the Red Army and fled from the country. Established Taiwan
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Deng Xiapong
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Took over China after Maos death
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Alexander Kerensky
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Prime Minister of Russia until Lenin took over
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Vladimir Lenin
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  • Famous leader of the USSR.
  • Fought against the Mensheviks
  •  Led Coup in Oct Rev 1917.
  • Chairman of Council of people’s commissar
  • Stroke 1922
  •  scaled back gov responsibilities
  •  Died 1924
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Josef Stalin
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  1. Leader of USSR.
  2. Killed Trotsky to take leader of USSR position. 
  3. Introduced Prison camps called Gulags
  4. Did the Great Purges:
    Killed the people who used to work for Lenin
    Killed random government leaders who he blamed for treason
  5. 5 year plan to modernize Russia but resulted in killing several millions of people
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Nikita Kruschev
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Led the USSR during part of the Cold War. First person to  work on de-stalinization. Replaced by Gorbachev
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Leonid Brezhnev

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Made a doctrine that stated that the USSR had the right to invade in any country with Anti-Communist forces
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Last leader of the USSR. Captured by Communist Hardliners in 1991
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  Boris Yeltsin
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First President of Russia (After fall of USSR). He tried making the country much more democratic. Ideas didn't work out because Russian Parliament still held beliefs surrounding communism
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Vladimir Putin
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Used to be president of Russia. Now Prime Minister. Has power over the current President. Used to work in the KGB.
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Dmitry Medvedev
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Current President of Russia. Used to work for Russias biggest oil company: Gazprom
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Tsar Nicholas II
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Issued the October Manifesto during the 1905 revolution
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Karl Marx
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Founder of Marxism. Considered A radical
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General Rabuka
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Staged a coup to overthrow Indian dominated government in Fiji
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Frank Bainarama
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Prime Minister of Fiji
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John Key
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Prime Minister of New Zealand
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Kevin Rudd
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Prime Minister of Australia
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Omar Al Bashir
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Current President of Sudan. Worlds Worst Dictator
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Muhammad Farrah Aidid
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Most powerful Mogadishu Warlord. Black Hawk Down was about the plan to kill him
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Robert Mugabe
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Current President of Zimbabwe
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Morgan Tsvangirai
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Won the election against Mugabe. Mugabe won't give up power but there is a power sharing agreement.
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Isais Afworki
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Eritrean Chief of State
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William de Klerk
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Last White President of South African. Helped end apartheid
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Joseph Kabila
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President of Democratic Republic of the Congo. Son of the first DROC president
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Nelson Mandela
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Was in S. African prison for 27 years. Was president of ANC. Was president from 1994-1999. Has a nobel Peace Prize. First president to be elected in S.  Africa in an all democratic election
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Jacob Zuma
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President of ANC and S. Africa
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Abdullah Gul
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President of Turkey
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Shimon Peres
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Current president of Israel
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Ali Khamenei
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Supreme Court Leader of Iran
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Hassan Nasrallah
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Leader of Hezbollah
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Pervez Musharraf
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Old leader of Pakistan 2001-2008
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Sharif Ahmed
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Current President of Somalia
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Mwai Kibaki
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Current President of Kenya -> Belongs to the Kikuyu Tribe
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Raila Odinga
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Prime Minister of Kenya -> Belongs to the Luo Tribe
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Fidel Castro
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Former Communist leader of Cuba
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President Habriyamana
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Hutu President of Rwanda. His plane was shot down
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Hugo Chavez
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President of Venezuela
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President Lula
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President of Brazil
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