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Regents People
common names on the NYS global regents
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Locke | English Enlightenment writer, natural rights |
| Voltaire | French Enlightenment writer, freedom of speech, rights of the people |
| Rousseau | French Enlightenment Writer, social contract, rights for the people |
| Montesqiueu | French Enlightenment writer, 3 branches of government |
| What Do Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesqiueu have in common? | They are all French Enlightenment writers and they all spread idead that led to the French Revolution. |
| Louis XIV | Absolute Monarch of France, put country into debt by building Versailles |
| Louis XVI | Absolute Monarch of France, Overthrown and killed during French Revolution |
| Robespierre | Reign of Terror during French Revolution |
| Napoleon | Emperor of the French Empire, Napoleonic Code |
| Simon Bolivar | Latin American Independence Movements - Colombia, Venezuela |
| Toussaint L'ouverture | Latin American Independence Movements - HAITI |
| Jose de San Martin | Latin American Independence Movements - Argentina, Chile, and Peru |
| Prince Metternich | Congress of Vienna, wanted to return power to the kings and queens in Europe |
| Porfirio Diaz | Becomes President of Mexico that falls during the Mexican Revolution |
| Pancho Villa | General during Mexican Revolution, wanted Agrarian Reform |
| Emiliano Zapata | Mexican Revolutionary |
| Garibaldi | Led Italian Nationalist Movement, unification |
| Mazzini | helped the Unitfication of Italy, nationalist movement |
| Cavour | unification of italy, nationalist movement |
| If you see Cavour, Garibaldi, or Mazzini | Italian Nationalist Movements, unification |
| Otto Von Bismarck | German Nationalist Movements, United Germany, Blood and Iron |
| Thomas Malthus | population growth will cause food shortage |
| Adam Smith | England Enlightenment thinker, laissez faire capitalism, industrial revolution |
| Karl Marx | Father of Communism, Rise of the proletariat, classless society |
| Frederick Engles | worked with Marx |
| Cecil Rhodes | English Imperialism, controlled almost all of Africa for England |
| Sun-Yat Sen | Chinese President of Chinese Republic, ended dynastic rule |
| Emperor Meiji | Japanese ruler that Modernized and Westernized, opened Japan for trade |
| Commodore Perry | American that opened Japan to trade |
| V.I. Lenin | Russian, led Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and brought communism to Russia |
| Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | Father of Modern Turkey, modernized and westernized |
| Chiang Kai Shek | Chinese leader after Sun Yat-Sen, Lost to Mao and the communists |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist revolution of 1949, Great Leap Forward, Peasants supported him |
| Adolf Hitler | German Fascist Dictator from 1930-1945, WWII, Holocaust |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian Fascist Dictator during WWII |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the USSR, 5 year plan, industrialize, labor camps, Cold War |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII, protect democracy |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese, 4 Modernizations, 1 child policy, brought in Market economy, Tianamen Square massacre |
| Pol Pot | Cambodia, leader of Khmer Rouge, Led Genocide against 20% of Cambodian people, back to agrarian culture |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnam's National leader, communist, removed french control and fought the US |
| Desmond Tutu | South African Archbishop that fought apartheid |
| Nelson Mandela | South African against apartheid, first black president (1994), imprisoned for 28 years, Won Nobel Prize |
| F.W. DeKlerk | South African president, freed Mandela, ended Apartheid |
| Nkrumah | Ghana nationalist against imperialism |
| Kenyatta | Kenya's first president (1963) after revolting against the British |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Indian Independence movement against British, Salt March, Homespun, Civil Disobedience. |
| Jawaharal Nehru | 1st Prime Minister of Independent India, Partitions India and Pakistan along religious lines, Muslims go to Pakistan, Hindus stay in India |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR leader, Perestroika-economic reform, Glasnost-Democratization, ENDS COLD WAR |
| Boris Yeltsin | 1st Russian president, 1991-1999, creates free market economy, ends USSR |
| Lech Walesa | 1st freely elected president of POLAND, Solidarity party, 1st Eastern European country to have free elections |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban, Communist, Cuban Revolution |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraqi President, invades other middle eastern countries (Iran and Kuwait), Gulf War |
| Ayatollah Khoemini | Iranian Islamic Fundamentalist, led Iranian revolution to overthrow Shah Reza Pahlavi, Keep Iran an traditional Islamic state. |
| Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlavi | Iranian Political leader overthrown for trying to westernize and modernize Iran in the 1960's and 1970's |
| Juan Peron | Dictator of Argentina, country goes into massive debt under Peron. Wife Evita still beloved figure |
| Yassir Arafat | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 1964. Wants to establish a homeland for palestinians and has been negotiating with Israel for an independent Palestinian state - Considered by many to be a terrorist. |
| Anwar Sadat | Egyptian President that was assassinated for making peace with Israel |
| Abraham | The first father of the bible. Considered to be the father of the Israelites and the father of the Arabs through his sons |
| Akbar the Great | Mughal Empire in India. expanded his empire and increased trade and cultural diffusion. |
| Alexander the Great | Conquered most of the ancient world. Began Hellenistic Culture, blended Greek, Persian, Indian, Egyptian cultures. CULTURAL DIFFUSION |
| Idi Amin | Ugandan Dictator exiled in 1979 |
| Asoka or Ashoka | Mauryan King that is responsible for the spread of buddhism |
| Constantine | Roman Emperor that Practiced religious tolerance. |
| Siddhartha Gautama | Buddha |
| Che Guevara | latin american guerilla leader. Helped Castro with his revolution and other latin american revolutions. |
| Gutenberg | Inventor of the printing press, Germany, Movable type |
| Henry VIII | English King that switched his nation from Catholic to protestant during the revolution |
| Martin Luther | German Monk wrote the 95 theses to protest practices of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Marco Polo | Italian explorer - Increased interest in Chinese goods and ideas |
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