GLOBAL REVIEW Important People #1

Father of Communism

• Karl Marx

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Friedrich Engels

A nationalist/philosopher from India, this man was a spiritual and moral leader favoring India's independence from Great Britain. He practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change.

• Jawarhalal Nehru

• Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• Mohandas K. Gandhi

• Mao Zedong

17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

• Karl Marx

• Simon Bolivar

• John Locke

• Voltaire

Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe.

• Joseph Stalin

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Mao Zedong

French general; Overthrew the Directory; Crowned himself emperor in 1802 and attempted to spread the revolution across most of Europe; Blundering mistake to invade Russia

• Robespierre

• Napoleon

• Louis XVI

• Marquis de Lafayette

Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II, the French until 1954, and South Vietnam & the U.S. until 1975 (1890-1969)

• Ho Chi Minh

• Mao Zedong

• Mohandas K Gandhi

• Karl Marx

The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

• Toussaint L'Ouverture

• Napoleon

• Simon Bolivar

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union; Took power after Lenin's death; 5 year plans, collectivization, and Great Purge; Defeated NAZI Germany in WWII; Started the Cold War.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Mao Zedong

• Joseph Stalin

• Fidel Castro

President of the Turkish Republic. Known for modernization and westernization of Turkey following WWI

• Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)

• Mohandas K Gandhi

• Nelson Mandela

• Saddam Hussein

Dictator of Germany, implemented Fascism and caused WWII and the Holocaust.

• Adolf Hitler

• Napoleon

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini