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100
Long-time East German leader who resisted reform and called for harsh measures against demonstrators in October 1989.
Who is Erich Honecker?
100
Polish electrician who helped found the Solidarity labor union and lead successful protests against the Polish Communist government.
Who is Lech Walesa?
100
Leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
Charismatic leader of the Cuban revolution who took Havana on January 1, 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
East German leader who demanded that Khrushchev do something about the brain drain his country was experiencing in the early 1960s.
Who is Walter Ulbricht?
200
Long-time Romanian Communist leader who refused to bend to the wishes of reformers and was apprehended, tried, and executed in December 1989.
Who is Nicolae Ceausescu?
200
Czech playwright and human rights activist who was elected president of Czechoslovakia in December 1989.
Who is Vaclav Havel?
200
Vietnamese leader who brought the nationalists and communists together to form the pro-independence Vietminh group in 1941.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
First democratically elected Marxist president in Latin America.
Who is Salvadore Allende?
200
Secretary general of the United Nations during the early 1960s.
Who is Dag Hammarskjöld?
300
Czech communist leader who lost power to the reformers in 1968.
Who is Antonin Novotny?
300
Coined the phrase “socialism with a human face.”
Who is Alexander Dubcek?
300
North Korean leader who invaded the South in June 1950.
Who is Kim Il-Sung?
300
Argentinian revolutionary who assisted the Castros in their “liberation” of Cuba, but who was killed by the CIA in Bolivia in 1967.
Who is Ernesto “Che” Guevara?
300
Head of the East German state security police who refused to order his men to fire on the demonstrators in October 1989.
Who is Egon Krenz?
400
Long-time Bulgarian Communist Party leader who was ousted by his own party in
Who is Todor Zhivkov?
400
Polish reformer who came to power in 1956.
Who is Wladyslaw Gomulka?
400
Vocal critic of Chairman Mao and his policies especially the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
400
Chilean general who led a CIA sponsored coup against the legitimate government in 1973.
Who is August Pinochet?
400
New head of the US Defense Department’s computer research program in 1962.
Who is J.C.R. Licklider?
500
One of the most repressive and authoritarian Communist leaders in Hungary through the first half of the 1950s.
Who is Matyas Rakosi?
500
Hungarian reformer who came to power on the heels of Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization program in July 1956.
Who is Erno Gero?
500
America’s favorite South Korean leader despite his lack of popular support.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
500
Head of the Cuban secret service who claims that there were 638 assassination attempts against Fidel Castro.
Who is Fabian Escalante?
500
Georgian Soviet foreign minister under Gorbachev.
Who is Eduard Shevardnadze?