1. Part II: A little more modern, a little more Global II
Key Leaders
Part II: A little more modern, a little more Global II

2. Maximilien Robespierre
France
Key in the French Revolution. Most known for the Reign of Terror , where 40,000 people were killed including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He was also killed in the Reign of Terror. :)

3. Napoleon
France
Names himself emperor of France after Revolution. Makes the Napoleonic Code which makes all men equal under the law.

4. Suleiman the Magnificent
Ottoman Empire
Controlled the Ottoman Empire. Created new laws. Makes Ottoman Empire very powerful in Europe/Asia

6. Mustafa Kemal
Turkey
Father of the Turks, first modern president of Turkey. He westernized Turkey

7. Giuseppe Garibaldi Italy
Led Italian troops to Sicily, fought with the red shirts and conquered Sicily. Responsible for helping with the reunification of Italy.

8. Benito Mussolini Italy
First Fascist leader of Italy. Believed in the state above the individual. Expanded Italy’s empire. Teamed up with Hitler and lost WWII.

9. Johan Gutenberg
Germany
Invented the Printing press

10. Otto von Bismarck Germany
Prime Minister of Prussia and unified Germany with the policy of blood and iron.

12. Adolph Hitler
Germany
German leader, brought Germany out of Great Depression. Also responsible for starting WWII and the Holocaust

14. Vladimir Lenin
Russia
Led the Bolshevik Revolution in Helped build communism in Russia. Worked to rebuild the Russian economy after WWI

15. Joseph Stalin
Russia
New leader after Lenin’s death. Rebuilt Russia into a steel producing machine. Tried to boost agriculture and industry with his five-year plans. Millions of people died under his harsh totalitarian rule but he turned Russia into a world power.

16. Mikhail Gorbachev Russia
Russian leader who is responsible for the collapse of Russia. Used policies like glasnost (openness) and perestroika (economic reforms).

17. Boris Yeltsin
Russia
Took over as president after the fall of USSR. Tried to help rebuild Russia to a direction of greater political liberty. New markets and democracy.

18. Sun Yat-Sen
China
First democratic leader of China, three principles, led the Chinese Revolution in 1911.

19. Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Ruled China until the Communist takeover. Retreated to Taiwan and governed from there, The Republic of China until 1975.

20. Mao Zedong
China
Communist leader, who ruled China, was responsible for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both killed millions of Chinese people.

21. Deng Xiaoping
China
Leader after Moa Zedong, tried to put elements of capitalism into Chinese economy. Tiananmen Square massacre – did not allow democracy

23. Toussaint L’Ouverture
Haiti
One of the driving forces in the Haitian Revolution. He fought against the French to fight for independence.

24. Jose de San Martin South America, Argentina
Leader of the struggle for independence from Spain of the southern nations of South America. With Simón Bolívar in the north, San Martín is seen as one of the Liberators of Argentina, Chile and Peru

25. Simon Bolivar Venezuela
Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia, he is revered as a hero.

26. Hernán Cortes
Spain
Spanish conquistador that conquered Mexico and the Aztecs. Helped expand Spanish empire into the new world

27. Francisco Pizzaro Spain
Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Peru, and conquered the Incan Empire. Helped expand Spanish empire into the new world

28. Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Corrupt president of Mexico who took land from peasants. His rule started the Mexican Revolution

29. Emiliano Zapata Mexico
One of the leaders during the Mexican Revolution in 1910 “The Attila of the South’.

30. Pancho Villa
Mexico
One of the leaders during the Mexican Revolution in 1910

31. Fidel Castro
Cuba
Led the Cuban Revolution, brought communism to Cuba during the Cold War.

32. Nelson Mandela South Africa
Ended apartheid (segregation) in South Africa, first black president of South Africa.

34. Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Named First president of Ghana after fighting for independence from Britain in the 40’s and 50’s. Considered an influential African Nationalist Leader

36. Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya
Overthrew British control. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan Nation.

38. Mohandas Gandhi
India
Fought for Indian independence, protested using non-violence. Great Salt March, and the Quit India campaign helped win support. Indian won independence in 1947.

39. Jawaharlal Nehru India
Helped Indian independence movement, the first Prime Minister of independent India

40. Theodor Herzl Jewish Nationalist Leader
Started the call for Zionism, the call for a Jewish home state in Palestine. Jews finally received this in 1948

42. Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Established communist control in part of Vietnam. Fought in Vietnam War with the US to gain control of all Vietnam.

44. Lech Walesa
Poland
Co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, served as President of Poland from 1990 to Helped free Poland from communism and rebuild its economy

45. Pol Pot
Cambodia
Responsible for the Khmer Rouge, this was the killing of Cambodians in He tried to create a classless society based on communism

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47. Slobodan Milosevic Serbia, Yugoslavia
Responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Kosovo

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49. Winston Churchill Great Britain
Prime Minister during WWII that helped defeat Adolf Hitler.