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| King of Great Britain (1625-49); executed for treason in 1649 |
Charles I |
| British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55) including WWII; Said, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." and coined the phrase "Iron Curtain." |
Winston Churchhill |
| 12th Century English king who fought in the crusades; succeeded by King John. |
Richard the Lionhearted |
| Duke of Normandy who led the Norman conquest of England in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings; King of Englad (1066-87) |
William the Conqueror |
| Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymore, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Cathering Parr |
Henry VIII's wives |
| First Chancellor of the German Empire (1871-90); Known as the "Iron Chancellor" |
Otto von Bismark |
| Posted his 95 theses (1517) detailing church abuses on the door of a church in Wittenberg; this started the Reformation in Germany; was excommunicated in 1520 by Pope Leo X. |
Martin Luther |
| Founder of Marxism which is the fundamental theory of communism; Wrote the Communist Manifest with Friedrich Engels; also wrote Das Capital |
Karl Marx |
| German military commander who was known as the "Desert Fox" |
Erwin Rommel |
| President of France (1945-46 and 1958-69); started the Free French movement in WWII. |
Charles De Gaille |
| King of France (1589-1610); well loved monarch that established religions tolerance in his country. |
Henry IV |
| (1428) Led French against Enligh during the Hundred Years' War, was captured by Burgundians (1430) and was turned over to the English who burned her at the stake as a witch (1431) |
Joan of Arc |
| Soviet political leader who seized control of the Soviet Communist part from Khrushchev in 1964 and went on to become head of the Soviet Union until his death in 1982. |
Leonid Brezhnev |
| 18th century Empress of Russia who greatly expanded Russian territory. |
Catherine the Great |
| Premier of the Soviet Union (1958-64); was premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
Nikita Khrushchev |
| Monk of who gained enormous influence over Nicholas II before and during WWI. |
Rasputin |
| Soviet ruler (1929-53) who succeeded Lenin. |
Joseph Stalin |
| Russian revolutionary who was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 under orders of Stalin. |
Leon Trotsky |
| National hero of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; nicknamed "The Liberator" |
Simon Bolivar |
| 20th century Chinese political leader who was presiden of China until he was overthrown in 1949 by Mao Zedong's communist forces; Chiang formed Nationalist China to combat Mao's People's Republic of China. |
Chiang Kai-shek |
| Indian Prime Minister from 1966 until her assassination in 1984. |
Indira Ghandi |
| Indian political leader who led India's drive for independence against Britain; used methods of passive resistance, boycotts, and hunger strikes; Assassinated in 1948. |
Mahatma Ghandi |
| Communist movement in Kampuchea (Cambodia) which came to power in 1975. |
Khmer Rouge |
| Overthrew Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and established the communist People's Republic of China. |
Mao Tse-tung |
| President of the Phillipines (1965-87) |
Ferdinand Marcos |
| Fascist dictator of Italy (1924-43); Known as il Duce (the leader) |
Benito Mussolini |
| Argintine dictator (1946-55 and 73-4); Married to Eva Peron about whose life Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical Evita is based. |
Juan Peron |
| King of Macedonia (336-323 BC); tutored by Aristotle; loosed the Gosdian Knot |
Alexander the Great |
| (Charles the Great) Crowned 1st holy Roman Emperor in 800 |
Charlemagne |
| Roman ruler (312-37); reunited E and W Roman empires and made new capital (Constantinople) on the site of Byzantium; Issued the Edict of Milan which legalized Christianity in 313. |
Constantine the Great |
| Ancient Carthage General who took an army supported by elephants into Italy in an attempt to conquer Rome in the second Punic War. |
Hannibal |
| 12th century Mongolian emperor known conquering huge portions of N China and SW Asia. |
Genghis Kahn |
| Ancient Greek Statesman who promoted democracy and tried to unite the country. |
Pericles |
| Shot by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo; this sparked WWI |
Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| Axed in Mexico by Ramon Mercader. |
Leon Trotsky |
| Shot and paralyzed by Arthur Herman Bremer. |
George Wallace (AL Governor) |
| Shot by rebel soldiers. |
Anwar Sadat |
| Spanish explorer who was the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean. |
Vasco Balboa |
| 1st to fly over the North Pole and the 1st to fly over the South Pole. |
Richard Byrd |
| 1st European to sail up the St. Lawrence River. |
Jacques Cartier |
| Conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519. |
Hernando Cortez |
| Discovered the Mississippi River. |
Hernando De Soto |
| 1st European to sail to India. |
Vasco Da Gama |
| Led the Kon Tiki Expedition in which he crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa raft in 1947. Led the Ra Expedition in 1969-70 in which he crossed the Atlantic in a papyrus boat. |
Thor Heyerdahl |
| Discovered the Victoria Falls |
David Livingstone |
