APWH 1900- Present People

Benazir Bhutto

11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms in 1988-90 and then 1993-96. A scion of the politically powerful Bhutto family, she was the eldest daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister himself who founded the centre-left Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)

Vladimir I. Lenin

1910s---Russian political leader---Russian communism-redistribution of land, economic growth, pulled out of WWI---Russia

Mao Zedong

1910s-40s and later 60s---Chinese communist leader---Communism in China (leading to issues with containment, etc), Cultural Revolution, Industrialization and etc...---China

Sun Yat-sen

1911---Chinese Revolutionary Leader---Helps overthrow Qing dynasty, establishes Guomindang and Republic of China---China

Gandhi

1940s/50s---Aristocratic political leader---peaceful movements lead to India's independence---India

Ronald Reagan

40th President of the United States. Before his presidency he served as the 33rd Governor of California and was also an actor from 1937 to 1964.

Martin Luther King

American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.

Adolf Hitler

Austrian politician later becoming a Fuhrer in Germany with dictatorial powers. He started the Holocaust which targeted people that he saw were under everyone else, including Jews. Killed millions of people during this event, and tried to expand German conquest all throughout Europe.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Burma. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% of the seats in Parliament

Deng Xiaoping

Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. After Mao Zedong's death, Deng led his country through far-reaching market economic reforms.

Patrice Lumumba

Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo. As founder and leader of the mainstream Mouvement national congolais (MNC) party, Lumumba played an important role in campaigning for independence from Belgium.

Woodrow Wilson

Early 1900s---US president during WWI---creates League of Nations, reforms for better standard of living---USA

Megawati Sukarnoputri

Indonesian politician who served as president of Indonesia from 23 July 2001 to 20 October 2004. She is the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.

Ayatollah Khomeini

Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. After coming to power, Khomeini ordered the destruction of Reza Shah's mausoleum, and executed opposition members by the tens of thousands

Yitzhak Rabin

Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974-77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995. Rabin was raised in a Labor Zionist household.

Mussolini

Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.

Vincente Fox

Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 1 December 2000, to 30 November 2006 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Muslim who faught for a seperate country to be purely dominated by Muslims. So after lots of protests, Muslims moved to the west, Pakistan, and Hindus were in the East, India.

Corazon Aquino

Philippine politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, the first woman to hold that office, and the first female president in Asia, though not the first female Asian head of state. Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled the 20-year authoritarian rule of President Ferdinand E. Marcos and restored democracy to the Philippines. She was named Time magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1986.

Nikita Kruschev

Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy

Nelson Mandela

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

Mustapha Kemal

Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Fidel Castro

a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. Under his administration the Republic of Cuba became a one-party socialist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

Yasser Arafat

a Palestinian leader

Haile Selaisse

born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty

Saddam Hussein

fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003

Mikhail Gorbachev

former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.

Kwame Nkrumah

leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. He became the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1951, and led it to independence as Ghana in 1957, becoming the new country's first Prime Minister. After Ghana became a republic in 1960, Nkrumah became President

Jomo Kenyatta

leader of Kenya from independence in 1963 to his death in 1978, serving first as Prime Minister and then as President. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation

Kim Il- Sung

leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death. He was also the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea from 1949 to 1994. He authorized the invasion of South Korea in 1950, triggering a defense of South Korea by the United Nations led by the United States. A cease-fire in the Korean War was signed on 27 July 1953.

Joesph Stalin

leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

second President of Egypt, serving from 1956 until his death. He planned the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy, and was deputy prime minister in the new government.

Anwar Sadat

third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981

Vaclav Havel

was a Czech writer, philosopher,[1] dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the first democratically elected president of Czechoslovakia in 41 years. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic (1993-2003) after the Czech-Slovak split. Within Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.

Thich Quang Duc

was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government

Agusto Pinochet

was dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1990 and Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army from 1973 to 1998. He was also president of the Government Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981.Pinochet assumed power in Chile following a United States-backed coup d'état on 11 September 1973 that overthrew the elected socialist Unidad Popular government of President Salvador Allende and ended civilian rule.

Margaret Thatcher

was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.