Final Exam Names

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Ho Chi Min

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Led the communist opposition against French in Indochina

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Karl Lueger

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Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna. Anti-semitic, racist. Influenced Hitler.

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Primo Levi

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Italian Jew. Sent to Auschwitz. Wrote "Survival in Auschwitz"

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Alcide de Gasperi

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Antifascist, took power in Italy, rejected totalitarianism and narrow nationalism

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Josip Tito

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Resistance leader and Communist party chief of Yugoslavia, resisted Soviet domination successfully.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Russian, wrote "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." (gooooood book)

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Karol Wojityla

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Cardinal, archbishop of Cracow (Poland). Elected pope, returned to Poland to preach the love of Christ. Pope John Paul II.

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Lech Walesa

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Electrician, devout catholic, led a working class revolt in Poland. Organized an independent trade union called "Solidarity".

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Vaclav Havel

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President of Czechlslovakia. Playwright turned moral revolutionist.

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Bob Dylan

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Folksinger turned rock poet. Sang "the times they are a'changing."

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Henry Kissinger

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US Secretary of State, along with Nixon reached a peace agreement with North Vietnam allowing the remaining American forces to withdraw.

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Douglas MacArthur

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Commander of the AMerican forces in Japan. Had a revolutionar plan for defeated Japan.

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Slobodan Milosevic

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Serbian president. Wanted to unite Serbs in a greater Serbia. Abolished self-rule in Kosovo. Strengthened the cause of separatism. Started a Civil War.

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Juan Peron

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Argentinean dictatorial populist and economic nationalist

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Salvador Allende

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Chilean. Doctor and marxist head of a coalition of communists. Elected president. Completed the nationalization of the American-owned copper companies. The traditional army stuck in a coup. Allende was murdered.

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Baby Doc Duvalier

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Ruled in Haiti. Most repressive dictatorship in the Americas. Forced into exile.

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Cultural Revolution

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Launched in China by Mao. Sought to purge the party of time-serving bureaucrats and recapture the revolutionary fervor of his guerilla struggle.

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Deng Xiaoping

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Member of the communist elite in China. Branded a dangerous agent of capitalism during the cultural revolution. After Mao's death, initiated a series of new policies. Started China's "second revolution."

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Tianamen Square

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Students in China demonstrated in Tianamen Square because of the corruption of the government. Communist government crushed the student leaders and their supporters with tanks.

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Ferdinand Marcos

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Philippine President. Subverted the constitution and ruled as dictator. Rebellion forced him into exile. Corazon Aquino became president.

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Corazon Aquino

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Became president in Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos was exiled.

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Achmed Sukarno

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Indonesian nationalist leader. Made the Netherlands East Indies into Indonesia. Tried to forge unity; forced to resign following a military coup.

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Muhammed Ali Jinnah

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Lawyer, led the Muslim league. Feared Hindu domination. Wanted to divide India so Muslims and Hindus had their own land.

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Indira Gandhi

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Indian. Nehru's daughter. Became prime minister, dominated Indian political life with charm, tact, and toughness

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Anwar Sadat

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Egyptian president. Negotiated with Israel to get back the Sinai Peninsula. Israel got peace and normal relations with Egypt.

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Mohammed Mossaddeq

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Prime Minister in Iran. Forced the shah to flee to Europe (Shah was restored to the throne)

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I'M SOOOOOOO BORED

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:( quiero viajar a mexico :(

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Mashmoud Ahmadinejad

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Won the presidency in Iran. Ultraconservative, Islamic hardliner

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W.E.B.Dubois

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Writer in the "black nationalism" and "renaisance". Received a Ph.D. from Harvard. Organized Pan-African congresses in Paris during the Versailles Peace Conference

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Kwame Nkrumah

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African leader. Named the Gold Coast "Ghana". Became the first independent African state to emerge from colonialism.

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Nelson Mandela

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Black lawyer. South African. Set up an underground army to oppose the government. Tried for treason and sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed by Frederick W. de Klerk, became president.

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Frederick W. de Klerk

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African lawyer and politician. Negotiated with Nelson Mandela, freed him from prison. Reached an agreement for universal suffrage, and black majority rule. Mandela was president of South Africa, Klerk was vice president.

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Mobuto Sese Seko

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General, seized power in Zaire. Looted and impoverished the country for decades, before US stopped giving him aid.

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Frantz Fanon

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Wrote "The Wretched of the Earth". Black shrink.

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V.S. Naipaul

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Trinidad. Nobel Prize-winning novelist. Wrote "The Mimic Men."

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Al-Qaeda

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Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network of terrorists. oh...he was saudi...hmmmmm

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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Pakistani president. Set up a nuclear weapons program.

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Rigoberta Menchu

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KEWL LADY. Received teh Nobel Peace Prize. Guatemalan. Fought for the rights of her people.

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Lousie Joy Brown

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The world's first successful test-tube baby.

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Paul Ehrlich

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Neo-Malthusian social scientist. Painted dommsday scenarios of an imminent population catastrophe

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Jean Francois Revel

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Wrote "The Totalitarian Temptation". Communism critic

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Andrei Sakharov

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Physicist, father of the Russian atomic bomb. Human rights advocate (something about that doesnt add up)

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E.F. Schumacher

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Wrote "Small is Beautiful." Urged the building of solar heated houses.