Russian, Other Countries, Ancient, Seven Wonders, United Nations
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| Daughter of Nicholas II thaught to have died when the Romanov family was executed in 1918, since then several women have claimed to be her alive and well | Anastasia | President of the USSR (1983-1984) | Andropov | Radicals in the Russian Revolution who favored a revolution instead of gradualchange, led by Lenin | Bolsheviks
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| Soviet political leader who seized control of the Soviet Communist party from Khrushchev in 1964 and went on to be the head of the Soviet Union until his death in 1982 | Brezhnev | 18th Century Empress of Russia who greatly expanded Russian territory | Catherine the Great | Premier of the USSR who's ressurecting and openness gave the Soviets slightly more freedom of expression | Gorbachev
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| Ruled Russia as "Soverein of all Russia" (1462-1505) | Ivan the Great | Russian Czar (1547-1584) known for his cruelty and brutality; first to recieve title of Czar | Ivan the Terrible | Premier of the Soviet Union(1958-1964) was premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Krushchev
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| Russian political leader who founded the Bolshevik party; first premier of the USSR (1918-1924) Real name: Vladmir Illyich Ulyanov ;succeeded by Satlin in 1924 | Lenin | Czar of Russia (1682-1725) who tried to modernize Russia; moved capitol from Moscow to Petersburg, which he had built | Peter the Great | Monk who gained enormous influence over Nicholas II before and during WWII | Rasputin
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| Soviet ruler (1929-1953) who succeeded Lenin | Stalin | Russian revolutionary who was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940 under the orders of Stalin | Trotsky | Filipino revolutionary who led two major uprisings (1896-1901) | Aguinaldo
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| Emperor of Japan (1989- ) eldest son of Emperor Hirohito | Akihito | Syrian President (1971 - ) | Asad | Last Incan President (1525 - 1533), was executed by Pisaro | Atahualpa
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| First President of Turkish Republic (1923 - 1938) | Ataturk | Cuban dictator (1952 - 1959) who was overthrown by Castro in 1959 | Batista | Israeli Prime Minister (1977 - 1983) awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Anwar Sadat of Egypt | Begin
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| First Isreali Prime Minister (1948 - 1953, 1955 - 1963) | Ben-Gurion | Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988 - 1990) and head of the Pakistan People's Party | Bhutto | National Hero of Venezuela, Columbia, Equador, Peru, and Bolivia; nicknamed "the liberator" | Bolivar
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| Italian politician of the 15th and 16th centuries known for cruelty; brother of Lucretia Borgia | Borgia | Cuban Dictator (1963 - present) who overthrew Batista and helped the country transform into a communist state | Castro | 20th century Chinese political leader who was president of China until he was overthrown in 1949 by Mao Ze Dong's forces. He formed Nationalist China to combat Mao's People's Republic of China | Chiang
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| Premier of the People's Republic of China (1949 - 1973) | Chow En-Lai | Political Leader of Tibet (1940 - 1949) | Dalai Lama | General Issimo Franco was a Spanish General and Dictator (1939 - 1975) who led the fascist nationalist armies in the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) died in 1975 | Franco
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| Indian Prime Minister from 1966 until her assassination in 1974 | Ghandi | Indian Political leader who led India's drive for India's independence against Britain; used methods of passive resistance, boycots, and hunger strikes. Assassinated in 1948 | Ghandi | Ethiopian Emperor (1930 - 1936, 1941 - 1974) | Haile
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| Emperor of Japan (1926 - 1989) | Hirohito | King of Spain in the 15th and 16th Century, married to Queen Isabella. They sponsor Columbus on his voyages. Their marriage united the crowns of Aragon and Castille | Ferdinand | King of Jordan (1952 - ) | King Hussein
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| Communist movement in Kampuchia (Cambodia) which came to power in 1975 | Khmer Rouge | Iranian political leader who became dictator of Iran in 1979 after To shah was overthrown | Khomeini | Known as Lawrence of Arabia led a rebellian of Arabs against the Turks in WWI | Lawrence
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| overthrew Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and established the communist People's Rebpublic of China | Mao Tse-tung | Persident of the Phillipines (1965-87) | Ferdinand Marcos | Israeli Prime Minister (1969 - 74) | Meir
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| Fascist dictator of Italy (1924 - 43); known as il Duce (the leader) | Mussolini | Prime minister of Egypt (1954 - 8) and President of the United Arab Republic | Nasser | First Prime Minister of independent India (1947 - 64) | Nehru
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| Argentine dictator (1946 - 55 and 73 -4); married to Eva Peron about whose life Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical Evita is based | Peron | King of Spain (1556 - 98) whose Spanish Armada failed to conquer England in 1588 | Philip II | Egyptian president who succeeded Nasser in 1970; assassinated in 1981 | Sadat
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| 1st King of modern Saudi Arabia (1932 - 53) | Saud | 15th centurey Italian religious reformre who campaigned against the Medici family was burned at the stake in 1498 | Savonarola | First president of Chinese republic (1912-2, 1923 - 5) | Sun Yat-Sen
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| Ygoslavian military and political leader who led Yugoslavian resistance to German invastion in WWII and later esttablished communist rule in Yugoslavia; prime minister and president (1945-80) | Tito | Polish labor leader who founded solidarity | Walesa | (14th century BC) King of Egypt that renounced old gods and introduced the first monotheistic religion. Also known as Amenhotep | Akhenaton
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| King of Macedonia (336-323BC); tutored by Aristotle; loosed the Gordian Knot | Alexander the Great | King of the Hunds in the 5th centurey; known as the "scourge of God" because of his armies cruelty | Atilla the Hun | Adopted son of Julius Caesar; 1st emperor of Rome (44BC - 12AD); The Pax Romana (time of peace) occured during his reign. | Augustus Caesar
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| 1st century Roman dictator; assassinated by Brutus and others on the Ides of March (44BC) | Julius Caesar | Ancient Romad politician; ended every spech with "Carthage must be destroyed." | Cato | (Charles the Great) Crowned 1st holy Roman Emperor in 800 | Charlemagne
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| 1st century BC Queen of Egypt famous for her affair with Mark Anthony; commited suicide by allowing a poisonous asp to bite her | Cleopatra | 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
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| Ruler of Rome (117-38) who codified their laws and built a wall between England and Scotland | Hadrian | 12th century Mongolian emperor known conquering huge portions of N China and SW Asia | Genghis Khan | Ancient Roman Emperor famed for his cruelty; Thought to have caused a great fire in Rome | Nero
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| Ancient Greek Statesman who promoted democracy and tried to unite the country | Pericles | Lasat ruler of a united Roman empire (392-5) | Theodosius the Great | 3 rulers of Rome; 1st triumvirate (60BC); Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus; 2nd triumvirate; Mark Antony, Marcus Lepidus, and Octavian | Triumvirate
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| Only surviving wonder | Pyramids of Egypt | Terraced gardens built by Nebuchadnezar | Hanging Gardens of Babylon | Carved by Phidias | Statue of Zeus at Olympia
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| Destroyed by the Goths in 262 AD | Temple of Artemis at Ephesus | Erected by queen Artemisia in honor of her husband King Mausolus | Mausoleum at Halicarnassus | Gigantic statue of Apollo; destroyed by an earthquake in 224BC | Colossus of Rhodes
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| Marble lighthouse and watchtower; destroyed by earthquake in 1375 | Pharos of Alexandria | Norway; 1946-53 | Lie | Sweden; 1953-61 | Hammarskjold
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| Burma; 1962-71 | Thant | Austria; 1971-81 | Waldheim | Peru; 1982-92 | de Cuellar
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| Egypt; 1992-97 | Ghali | Ghana; 1997-2006 | Annan | Republic of Korea (S Korea); 2007- | Ban
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