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World History 2 Virginia SOL People Review
People you need to know for the World History 2 SOL
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History
9th Grade
05/16/2013

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Abraham
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founder of Judaism
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Moses
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led Jews out of Egypt in the exodus
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Gautama
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founder of Buddhism
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Jesus of Nazareth
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founder of Christianity - according to the Christians he's the messiah
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Allah
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Islamic name for God
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Muhammad
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founder of Islam
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Michaelangelo
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Renaissance artist - painted Sistine Chapel and sculpted la Pieta and David
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Erasmus
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most famous Christian humanist; wrote The Praise of Folly
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Shakespeare
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Renaissance playwright and writer of sonnets
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Turks
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Muslims from Asia Minor - defeated Constantinople - renamed it Istanbul – traded coffee and ceramics – spread Islam to Middle East, North Africa, and Balkan Peninsula
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Renaissance artist - painted Mona Lisa and the Last Supper
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Pope
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head of the Roman Catholic Church
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Johannes Gutenberg
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invented the printing press, helped Renaissance and Reformation ideas spread
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Martin Luther
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first to ever break away from Catholic Church, German monk, receive salvation through faith alone
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John Calvin
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God predestines certain people to go to heaven
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Jesuits
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Catholic order that proselytized for all over the world for Catholic church; leader: de Loyola
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Elizabeth I
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combined Catholic and Protestant to come up with Anglican Church
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Henry VIII
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broke away from the Catholic Church so he could divorce his wife
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Catholic leader in France that changed the Thirty Years’ War from a religious to a political conflict
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Hapsburgs
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Ruling family in Europe that supported the Catholic Church during the Reformation
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Prince Henry
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Portugal - brought people together to study navigation
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Columbus
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wanted to sail West around the world to get to Asia - landed in Caribbean -- thought he was in India
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Magellan
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his crew was first to circumnavigate the globe
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Drake
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first Englishman to sail around the globe
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Cortez
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Spanish conquistador - conquered Aztecs
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Pizarro
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Spanish conquistador - conquered Incas
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Cartier
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French explorer - claimed Canada for France
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese - first to find water route to Asia
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Mughals
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Muslims - ruled India
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Ottomans
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Muslims - Asia Minor - coffee and ceramics
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Songhai
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Africans - traded salt and gold
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Japanese
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kicked out foreigners and became isolationists
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Chinese
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set up trading enclaves for foreigners to trade in
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Aztecs
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Native American civilization - Mexico - corn
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Incas
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Native American civilization - Peru - Andes Mts. - roads and bridges
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Persians
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Located in present-day Iran
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Shah Jahan
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Mughal leader who built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife
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Tokugawa
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Japanese shogun overthrown in the Meiji Restoration
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Louis XIV
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absolute monarch of France - brought great culture to France - also caused problems by doing away with the Edict of Nantes - built Versailles
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Sun King
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nickname of Louis XIV
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Frederick the Great
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absolute ruler of Prussia
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Peter the Great
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an absolute ruler of Russia - he wanted to westernize Russia
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Copernicus
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Polish - heliocentric theory - feared the church
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Kepler
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German - used math to prove that earth goes around the sun
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Galileo
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Italian - used telescope to prove Copernicus right
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Harvey
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English - blood circulates throughout the body
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Newton
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English - developed calculus and the laws of gravity
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Montesquieu
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French - wrote Spirit of the Laws - believed in separation of power
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Mozart
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Austrian - great composer - began composing at age 5
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Voltaire
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French - believed in freedom of speech - separation of church and state
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Rousseau
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French - Social Contract - government is only a contract and not that necessary
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Hobbes
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English - used natural law to say that people meed an absolute monarch because they are naturally bad - wrote Leviathan
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Locke
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English - used natural law - Two Treatises on Government - man has rights and is generally good - government to protect our rights - influenced Jefferson
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Jefferson
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American - wrote Declaration of Independence
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Bach
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second great composer of the Enlightenment
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Delacroix
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French - painted Liberty Leading the People
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Cervantes
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Spanish - novelist - wrote Don Quixote
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William and Mary
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rulers of Eng. after Glorious Revolution - had less power than Parliament
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Napoleon
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dictator of France - conquers Europe - spreads Code of Laws
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Metternich
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Austrian prince - Congress of Vienna - balance of power - kings in power
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Charles I
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king of England - wants to be absolute - executed after civil war
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Oliver Cromwell
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Puritan - Led English Civil War - then became dictator
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Third Estate
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French poor and middle class - began revolution at Bastille
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Louis XVI
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French absolute ruler - executed in Reign of Terror
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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led slave revolt in Haiti - inspired by the French Revolution
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Bolivar
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led revolutions all over Latin America
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Cavour
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advisor to king of Sardinia -= united N. Italy
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Garibaldi
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guerrilla warfare - united S. Italy with N. Italy
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Bismarck
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Realpolitik - "blood and iron" - Prussian who created Germany
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Charles II
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"Merry Monarch" who reigned during the Restoration period after the English Civil War
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Creoles
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White people born in the Latin American colonies
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Mestizos
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People of mixed American Indian and European ancestry
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Viceroys
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Latin American colonial rulers; often former Conquistadors
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Hidalgo
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Priest who started the Mexican independence movement
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Monroe
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U.S. president who outlined the policy that Europe not take new colonies in the Western Hemisphere
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Eli Whitney
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Cotton gin - clean cotton faster - need for slaves grows
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James Watt
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steam engine - work now done by machines instead of human power
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Henry Bessemer
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invented steel - now machines could be made stronger and resistant to fire
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Adam Smith
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capitalism and laissez-faire - Wealth of Nations - profits make people work
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Edward Jenner
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made world's first vaccination - small pox
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Louis Pasteur
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discovered germs/bacteria
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Cmdr. Matthew Perry
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used U.S. Navy to get Japan to open up to trade
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Karl Marx
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Socialism – helped write Communist Manifesto - proletariat to rise up and Revolt, also wrote Das Capital
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Friedrich Engels
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Socialism - co-wrote the Communist Manifesto
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Archduke Ferdinand
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prince of Austria-Hungary - assassinated - spark for WWI
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Tsar Nicholas II
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ruler of Russia in early 1900s - incompetent - overthrown
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Bolsheviks
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radical socialists led by Lenin
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Lenin
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Russian socialist. wanted to spread socialism all over the world, led the Bolsheviks, New Economic Policy
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Woodrow Wilson
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U.S. president WWI, wrote Fourteen Points
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Hitler
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totalitarian leader of Germany, wrote Mein Kampf
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Mussolini
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totalitarian/Fascist leader of Italy
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Stalin
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totalitarian leader of Soviet Union, Five Year Plans, KGB, collective farms
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Tojo
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Japanese military minister
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Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan during WWII
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F.D. Roosevelt
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U.S. president during WWII and at Yalta
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Truman
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dropped atomic bomb on Japan – said US will lead fight against communism
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MacArthur
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U.S. General - Pacific troops - rebuilt Japan - fought Korean War
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Marshall
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had plan to rebuild W. Europe after WWII - $13 billion
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Eisenhower
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U.S. General – in charge of D-Day – became U.S. president
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Churchill
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British PM – hated appeasement – at Yalta
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Ronald Reagan
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helped end the Cold War by building up US military
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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helped end Cold War by letting his people see the West
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Fidel Castro
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Communist dictator of Cuba - allowed USSR to put missiles there
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Mao Tse-tung
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led Communists in China
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Chiang Kai-shek
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led nationalists in China - fled to Taiwan after losing
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Ho Chi Minh
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led Communists in Vietnam
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Mohandas Gandhi
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led passive resistance against British in India
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Jomo Kenyatta
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led fight against British for independence of his country
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Margaret Thatcher
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British Prime Minister and woman who supported free trade, less government regulation of business, and a close relationship with the US; asserted the UK’s military power
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Indira Gandhi
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Indian Prime Minister and woman who established a closer relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War; developed India's nuclear program
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Deng Xiaoping
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Chinese Communist leader who maintained strict government control of the lives of the citizens while also allowing some privatization and free market policies in the economy
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Indian Prime Minister and close associate of Gandhi who supported Western style industrialization
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Nelson Mandela
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Led black South Africa's struggle against apartheid; became the first black president of the Republic of South Africa
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Golda Meir
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Israeli Prime Minister and woman who led Israel to victory in the Yom Kippur War and sought the support of the United States
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Gamal Abdul Nasser
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President of Egypt who nationalized the Suez Canal, established a relationship with the Soviet Union, and built the Aswan Dam
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Pol Pot
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led a genocide in Cambodia against the educated, artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, and minorities
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