Question | Answer |
filipino revolutionary who led two major uprisings 1896-1901 | Aguinaldo |
emporer of Japan 1989-; eldest son of Hirohito | Akihito |
syrian president 1971- | Asad |
last incan president 1525-1533; was executed by Pizarro | Atahualpa |
1st president of turkish republic 1923-38 | Ataturk |
cuban dictator 1952-9 who was overthrown by castro | Batista |
Israeli prime minister 1977-83; awarded the 1978 nobel peace prize with Anwar Sadat of Egypt | Begin |
1st israeli prime minister 1948-53, 1955-63 | Ben-Gurion |
Prime minister of Pakistan 1988-90 and head of the pakistan People's party | Bhutto |
national hero of venezuela, colombia, ecuador, peru, and bolivia; nicknamed "The Liberator" | Bolivar |
Italian Politician of the 15th and 16th centuries known for cruelty; brother of Lucrezia ___ | Borgia |
cuban dictator 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 Zedong's communist forces: formed Nationalist China to combat Mao's People's Republic of China | Chiang Kai-Shek |
premier of the peoples republic of china 1949-73 | Chou En-Lai |
political leader of Tibet 1940-59 | 14th Dalai Lama |
generalissimo___ was a spanish general and dictator 1939-75 who led the fascist Nationalist armies in the spanish civil war 1936-9; died in 1975 | Franco |
indian prime minister from 1966 until her assassination in 1984 | Indira Gandhi |
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 Gandhi |
ethiopian emperor 1930-6 and 1941-74 | Haile Selassie |
emperor of Japan 1926-89 | hirohito |
king of spain in the 15th and 16th centuries married to Isabella; they sponsored Columbus on his voyages; their marriage united the crowns of Aragon and Castile | Ferdinand |
king of jordan 1952- | King Hussein |
communist movement in Kampuchea (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 ______of Arabia; led a rebellion of arabs against the turks in ww1 | T.E. Lawrence |
overthrew Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and established the communist people's republic of china | Mao tse-tung |
president of the phillipines 1965-87 | Marcos |
israeli prime minister 1969-74 | Meir |
fascist dictator of italy 1924-43; known as il duce | Mussolini |
prime minister of Egypt 1954-8 and president of the united arab republic (egypt and syria)1958-61 | Nasser |
first prime minister of independent India 1947-64 | Nehru |
argintine dictator 1946-55 and 73-4; married to Eva ___ 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 2 |
egyptian president who succeeded Nasser in 1970; assassinated in 1981 | Sadat |
1st modern king of Saudi Arabia 1932-53 | Saud |
15th century italian religious reformer who campaigned against the medici family; was burned at the stake in 1498 | Savonarola |
first president of chinese republic 1912-3, 1923-5 | Sun Yat-sen |
Yugoslavian military and political leader who led Yugoslavian resistance to german invasion in ww2 and later established communist rule in yugoslavia; prime minister and president 1945-80 | Tito |
polish labor leader who founded solidarity | Walesa |