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Hamid Karzai; President.
Taliban |
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State Peace and Development Council
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Ann San Su Kyui: elected president, under house arrest. |
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Pol Pot: dictator during khmer Rouge, killed people, targeted intellectuals
Khmer Rouge:red Cambodians, communist violent party |
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| PM Stephen Harper;conservative |
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Hu Jintao: Current Pres
Mao Zedong: former dictator, communist China, killed 30 mill people with his 5 year plans. |
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Raul Castro: current pres
Fidel Castro: previous pres, very influential. brothers |
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| Democratic Republic of Congo |
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Kabila: current pres
Mabuto: former pres |
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Pres Mubarak: currently ousted
Nasser: prev pres during cold war |
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Patel: Current Pres
Gandhi: independence leader of non-violent resistance. Assassinated. |
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| Yudhoyono(Bong Bang): Current pres |
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Ahmadinejab:current leader, thinks he is ushering in the apocalypse.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Supreme leader; religious leader |
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Jalal Talabani: First Kurdish pres, current pres, head of state
Sadam Hussein:former pres, used chemicals to fight against kurd uprising |
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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu: PM
Shimon Perez: pres(figure head)
Golda Meir: first woman PM |
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| Mussolini:Communist leader WWII |
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Outtrara: rightful leader, winning civil war.
Gbagbo: lost election, would not give up power |
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| Gaddafi: crazy face, protected by large all female guard |
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| Calderon: pres of Mexico, has the power |
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| Goodluck jonathon: from a southern "christian" tribe |
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Kim Jong Il: Current Dictator; father of
Kim Jong Un: likes basketball, groomed for lead |
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| Asif Ali Zardari: Current PM, widower of first female PM who was assassinated. |
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| Palestinian National Authority |
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Mahmoud Abbas: pres leader of Fatah (west Bank)
Yesser Arafat: leader of PLO from 70s to 80s |
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Putin: previous pres, now PM
Yeltsin: in charge of state post USSR
Lenin: First leader of soviet russia, adopted Marxism
Stalin: dictator after Lenin;paranoid, killed 30 million |
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Paul Kagame: current pres, visited our campus
Interhamwe (Hutu): Bad guys, ethnic militia of Hutu |
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| King Abdullah: leader of Saud Family, moderate muslim |
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Jacob Zuma:current leader
Nelson Mandela: brought the people groups together through Rugby
Desmond Tutu: archbishop, help in reconciliation after apartheid |
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Omar al-Bashir:current pres, only international criminal court wanted leading a country
Janjaweed:killing in Darfur (devils on horseback) |
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Museveni:Good in relation to other leaders of Uganda
Joseph kone: leader of LRA, uses cult, child soldiery, and rape as war weapons
Idi Amin: former pres, the butcher of Uganda |
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David Cameron: current PM Torrie party
Tony Blair: PM during bush Admin
Margaret Thatcher: PM during Ronald Reagan Admin, conservative
Winston Churchill: PM during WWII (never give up x3) |
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| hugo Chavez: De Facto Dictator, love by poor, hated by everyone else. |
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| Ho Chi Minh: ideological grandfather of Communist Vietnam |
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| Robert Mugabe: Took over after apartheid, gave white land to black people, ran the nation to the ground. |
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