Russian revolutionary who headed the Bolshevik Party.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
100
This line is taken from her 1962 bestseller: “Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent.”
Who is Rachel Carson?
100
Leader of the Cuban Revolution who later turned to the Soviet Union for support against his powerful neighbor to the north.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Energetic Turkish general who transformed his country into a modern, secular, and national state.
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?
200
Guomindang leader who fled to Taiwan in 1949.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
200
Tsar forced to abdicate when his troops refused to fire on protestors in Petrograd.
Who is Nicholas II?
200
Daughter of a kulak family, she moved to Moscow to get an education and a job as a cake decorator.
Who is Anna Dubova?
200
Argentinian who helped Castro with the Cuban revolution and sought to export that Marxist revolution to other nations in Africa and Latin America.
Who is Che Guevara?
200
Indonesian independence leader who saw himself as a nationalist, an Islamist, and a Marxist.
Who is Sukarno?
300
China’s paramount leader after Mao’s death, who instituted far-reaching capitalist economic reforms in the People’s Republic of China.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
300
Democratically elected Russian president who has since limited free speech and political opposition.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
300
Dutch victim of the Holocaust who saw the beauty in life despite her horrible surroundings.
Who is Etty Hillesum?
300
Mexican dictator who said, “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.”
Who is Porfirio Díaz?
300
Muslim Pathan tribal leader who supported the nonviolent struggle to end British rule in India.
Who is Abdul Ghaffar Khan?
400
Author of "The Three People’s Principles" who founded the Revolutionary Alliance in 1905.
Who is Sun Yat-sen?
400
Soviet leader whose attempted reforms—perestroika and glasnost—proved too powerful to be contained within the Soviet-style economic and political system.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
Gikuyu woman who experienced significant transformations during her lifetime in twentieth-century Kenya.
Who is Wanjiku?
400
Military dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
400
Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Who is Hassan al-Banna?
500
Confucian commissioner who unsuccessfully tried to end the opium trade in Canton in 1838.
Who is Lin Zexu?
500
The mayor of Moscow who became Russia’s first democratically elected president in the post-Soviet era.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
500
Japanese textile industry worker who was hanged in 1911 for participating in a plot to assassinate the emperor.
Who is Kanno Suga?
500
Democratically elected socialist leader of Venezuela who became an authoritarian dictator in order to hold onto power.
Who is Hugo Chavez?
500
Indian/Pakistani Muslim reformer who insisted that the Quran and the sharia provided a guide for all life.