Global Review Important People #3

Led revolts for Argentina and worked with Bolivar to free Peru from Spanish rule

• Jose de San Martin

• Touissaint L'Ouverture

• Napoleon

• Tupac Amaru

Leader of nonviolent protests for freedom on the Gold Coast. When independence was gained, he became the first prime minister of Ghana. He developed economic projects, but was criticized for spending too much time on Pan-African efforts, and neglecting his own countries' issues

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Nelson Mandela

• Mustafa Kemal

(1925-1998) Leader of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot is responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million of his own people due to starvation, execution, and beatings.

• Ho Chi Minh

• Pol Pot

• Mao Zedong

• Jiang Jieshi

Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

• Jose de San Martin

• Simon Bolivar

• Toussaint L'Ouverture

• Napoleon

The last South African President of the apartheid era. Known for engineering the end of apartheid

• F.W. de Klerk

• P.W. Botha

• Nelson Mandela

• Patrick Chamusso

Enlightenment thinker who is known for the political ideas of separation of powers and checks & balances

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect of the Reign of Terror

• Louis XVI

• Robespierre

• Danton

• Marat

President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.

• Mustafa Kemal

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Saddam Hussein

• Ben-David Gurion

English economist who theorized that population would outpace the available food supply resulting war, disease, famine, and death.

• Thomas Malthus

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• Jeremy Bentham

Founder of the Bolsheviks; leader of the Russian Revolution; Promised "Peace, Land, & Bread;" first head of the USSR; His New Economic Policy (NEP) encouraged agricultural and industrial growth.

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Mikhail Gorbachev