"Guomindang" leader who fled to Formosa in October 1949.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
100
Vietminh leader who fought the Japanese occupation during WWII and resisted the French recolonization of his country in the late 40’s and early 50’s.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
100
Long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress who served as South Africa’s first post-apartheid president from 1993 to 1999.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
100
Authoritarian leader of Kenya who maintained a fragile political stability through the 1990s but agreed to retire amidst charges of corruption in 2002.
Who is Daniel arap Moi?
100
Hard-line Iranian president who was reelected in the disputed election of 2009.
Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
200
Initiator of the Great Leap Forward in 1958.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
Indian leader of the Congress Party who implemented a policy of democratic socialism in the post-colonial era.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
200
Kenyan post-colonial leader who embraced Western-style capitalistic development and who also helped found the pan-African Organization of African Unity in 1963.
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
200
Leader of military opposition to Mobutu’s dictatorial regime in Zaire in the 1990s, he achieved victory and renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997 only to be assassinated in 2001.
Who is Laurent Kabila?
200
Iraqi president who invaded a neighboring country in August 1990 claiming that Kuwait was the creation of Western imperialists and had always been Iraqi territory.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
300
CCP leader who initiated economic change toward a more free market driven model in China in the late 1970s.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
300
Cambodian leader of the Khmer Rouge.
Who is Pol Pot?
300
Ghanaian president who preferred an “African form of socialism” for economic development and also hoped that a pan-African union would unite all member states in a wider community.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
300
African National Congress leader who ousted his one-time political ally Thabo Mbeki in the general election of 2009.
Who is Jacob Zuma?
300
Long-term Egyptian authoritarian leader ousted in the Arab Spring of 2011.
Who is Hosni Mubarak?
400
Chinese president who, in a 2007 speech, advocated a “scientific view of development” that called for social harmony, improved material prosperity, and a reduction in the growing gap between the rich and poor in China.
Who is Hu Jintao?
400
The Philippines dictatorial leader overthrown by massive pro-democracy movement in 1986.
Who is Ferdinand Marcos?
400
Tanzanian president from the 1960s to 1985 who advocated a strong central government, limitations on income, and village collectives.
Who is Julius Nyerere?
400
UNITA rebel leader who controlled large parts of rural Angola through the 1990s and was a destabilizing influence in that country until his death in 2002.
Who is Julius Savimbi?
400
Conservative Israeli prime minister who supports Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?
500
Deng Xiaoping’s political successor and president of China who emphasized rapid economic expansion and very limited freedom of expression.
Who is Jiang Zemin?
500
Benazir Bhutto’s widower elected Pakistan’s president in September 2008.
Who is Asif Ali Zardari?
500
First president, in 1962, of an independent Algeria.
Who is Ahmad Ben Bella?
500
Elected as Liberia’s president in 2006, she is the first elected female leader on the continent of African.
Who is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf?
500
Syrian leader since 2000 whose regime is struggling to survive the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement in late 2012.