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This Chinese Leader was the leader of the CCP and waged a Civil War against the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek, before eventually winning in 1949. He waged war against sparrows as they were "pests", wrote his Little Red Book, and promoted the One Child Policy before his death in 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This Communist lead, large country controlled from Outer Manchuria to Ukraine and formed with the fall of the Russian Empire and White Armies of Russia. It was a large power until it's collapse and defeated Germany with the Allies, before entering the Cold War and installing the Iron Curtain, before collapsing in 1991.
What is the Soviet Union?
What are the Napoleonic Wars/The War of the Coalitions?
The official sister city of Rome and the capital city of France and known as "The City of Love", it has fallen 7 times to various forces such as the Vikings, Germans and British.
What is Paris?
This type of government focuses on voting and freedom and is practiced in most of the worlds governments today. Athens is considered the "birthplace" of it.
What is representative democracy?
This British Queen and the Empress of India of the House of Saxe-Coburg had a entire era due to her 63 year reign and saw over major colonial expansions like those in Africa and China, industrial and military changes for the better of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Who is Queen Victoria?
The caliphate of Islam for a long while, it's first major victory was against the Byzantine Empire and claimed to be the "Third Rome". It held territory from Tunisia to Iraq to Greece, before its collapse in 1922 from Arab Revolts and destabilization from the British Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The battle for the capital of the Soviet Union, it initially looked good for the German Army, however winter set in and supply issues caused the Soviets to retaliate and successfully defend the city and eventually surrounding Army Group Center.
What is the Battle of Moscow?
A city that was founded by the Fatimids of Egypt, it is close the pyramids of Giza and Nile River, and improved under the Mamluk Sultanate and the start of two Egyptian revolutions as well as it is a tourist destination for many.
What is Cairo?
Founded by Benito Mussolini, this ideology focuses on the state and the individual leading it, propelled by nationalism, a cult of personality, and autocratic tendencies. There are little to no governments that use it today, but many did from 1922-1948.
What is fascism?
This Confederate General was one of the most experienced generals of the period, responsible for many early Union defeats and the push into Pennsylvania with the Army of Virginia. Originally against joining the South, the secession of Virginia and the threat of Union invasion urged him to join the war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
"The Lion of the North" during the Great Power era who controlled all of Scandinavia, parts of Northern Germany as well as the Baltics and sparse colonies throughout the world which were eventually taken by larger empires, it was ruled by a king and had elite guards to the king known as Caroleans. It's defeat in the Ukrainian city of Poltava secured the end of this empire.
What is the Swedish Empire?