Argentine revolutionary who played a significant role in Castro’s success in the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Ernesto Guevara?
100
Indian political leader who organized mass support for his nonviolent resistance to British rule through the Indian National Congress.
Who is Mohandas K. Gandhi?
100
Egyptian leader from 1954 to 1970, he became a Pan-Arab hero with his nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
100
German author and philosopher who wrote "Das Kapital."
Who is Karl Marx?
100
Long-reigning British monarch who lent her name to the era.
Who is Queen Victoria?
200
Notorious caudillo who unsuccessfully tried to prevent the secession of Texas from the Republic of Mexico.
Who is Antonio López de Santa Ana?
200
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party who believed that Chinese peasants would bring true revolution to China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
Led Ghana to independence in 1957, he pushed for a United States of Africa.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
200
Conservative nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who was elected president of the Second Republic before winning a plebiscite making him emperor in 1852.
Who is Louis Napoleon?
200
"Dowager Empress" who dominated Qing politics in the late nineteenth century, ruling as regent for the emperor Guangxu.
Who is Ci Xi?
300
Chilean military strong man who ousted Allende in a coup on September 11, 1973.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
300
Vietnamese nationalist and Communist, he successfully fought the Japanese, the French, and the Americans.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
300
Founder of a major state in West Africa who adopted the pose of a jihadist in competition with neighboring kingdoms.
Who is Samori Toure?
300
Attempted reforms that proved too difficult to control, he presided over the dissolution of his country in 1991.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
Poet of mixed English and Mohawk ancestry, who was a loyal and patriotic Canadian, but who also spoke out against her country’s policies toward indigenous First Nations societies.
Who is Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake?
400
Amerindian Mexican president who incorporated the principles of "La Reforma" in the Mexican Constitution of 1857.
Who is Benito Juárez?
400
Japanese writer, teacher, political theorist, and founder of Keio Academy whose ideas greatly influenced the Meiji Restoration.
Who is Fukuzawa Yûkichi?
400
Founder and ruler of the Zulu empire who violently absorbed many surrounding societies into his empire.
Who is Shaka?
400
An Ottoman military officer who led the nationalist army that established the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
Who is Mustafa Kemal?
400
Brazilian president who has been impeached and removed from office on corruption charges.
Who is Dilma Rousseff?
500
Native of Martinique, this author of "The Wretched of the Earth" concluded that colonialism could only be removed by violence.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
500
King of Siam who modernized his country through legal and constitutional reforms and kept his country free from absorption into European empires.
Who is Chulalongkorn?
500
British-educated African surgeon who called for Africans to merge their traditions with western models to ensure swift progress.
Who is John Africanus Horton?
500
Was not at the Yalta Conference but came into power during the Potsdam Conference.
Who is Clement Atlee?
500
Head of the Women’s Bureau during the Bolshevik Revolution.