Historical Figures Quiz

Communist Manifesto, father of socialism, believed class conflict

• Adam Smith

• Karl Marx

• Cecil Rhodes

• Thomas Malthus

Sun King" absolute ruler of France, Palace at Versailles

• Robespierre

• Louis XIV

• Louis XVI

• Napoleon

Indian Nationalist and independence leader, civil disobedience, non-violent, Salt March

• Indira Gandhi

• Nelson Mandela

• Pol Pot

• Gandhi

Absolute ruler that worked to westernize and modernize Russia

• Catherine the Great

• Peter the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

• Joseph Stalin

Leader of the Cuban Revolution and became a communist dictator with close ties to the Soviets

• Nelson Mandela

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Pol Pot

• Fidel Castro

Led Kenyan nationalist independence movement in Africa and became 1st prime minister

• Simon Bolivar

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Indira Gandhi

• Nelson Mandela

Leader of Nazi Party, fascist dictator of Germany, anti-Semitic

• Emperor Hirohito

• Naploean

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

Nationalist independent leader known as the "Liberator" but failed to unite Latin America under one nation

• San de Martin

• Father Hidalgo

• Toussaint L'Overture

• Simon Bolivar

Enlightenment thinker who contributed natural rights, consent of the governed and proposed overthrowing an unjust government

• Machiavelli

• Count Cavour

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

Implemented perestroika (economic restructuring) that included market based reforms and glasnost (more political and social openeness) which led to collaspe of Soviet Union

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Boris Yeltsin