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People of GS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | Fuhrer (leader) of Germany during WWII |
| Kim Il-Sung | Communist leader of North Korea during the Korean War |
| Lyndon B Johnson | U.S. president during the Vietnam War and The Civil Rights Movement |
| Vladimir Lenin | First Communist leader of Russia who wanted to create a dictatorship of the working class in Russia, ensuring the working class continued to control Russia |
| John Locke | Believed that government must protect 3 Natural Rights of Life, Liberty, and Property, and if they do not, then people had the right to overthrow that government. |
| Toussaint L’Overture | Head of the successful slave rebellion in Haiti, leading to its independence |
| Nelson Mandela | First democratically elected president of South Africa in free multi-racial elections |
| Karl Marx | Is responsible for the quotation “The proletarians of the world have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of all countries unite” as the author of The Communist Manifesto. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy during WWII |
| Gavrilo Princip | Killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia of Austria-Hungary, becoming the spark that would set off WWI |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States who is accredited with ending the Great Depression and was president during WWII |
| Adam Smith | Determined that there were 3 Natural Laws of Economics |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist leader of The Soviet Union during WWII |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States during WWI, who created the Fourteen Points to end world conflict |
| Mao Zedong | First communist dictator of China |