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10 Cards in this Set
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Great Britain's first female prime minister, elected in 1979. Known as "The Iron Lady".
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Margaret Thatcher
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He was the West German leader who presided over the "Economic Miracle."
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Konrad Adenauer
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He was a Soviet Premier who was best known for cracking down on dissidents in the 1970s.
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Leonid Brezhnev
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He was a U.S. Civil Rights activist who believed in non-violent resistance. He was assassinated in 1968.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This man was a junior Senator from Wisconsin who made a name for himself by wildly accusing various people in the U.S. government of being Communists.
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Joseph McCarthy
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He was a Soviet Premier who introduced reform programs into U.S.S.R. in the 1980s.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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He was the Soviet Premier who took over after the death of Stalin in 1952.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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He was the West German leader who oversaw reunification of Germany in 1990.
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Helmut Kohl
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He was the U.S. President elected in 1981, he led a "conservative revolution."
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Ronald Reagan
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He was the French president who founded the Fifth Republic in the 1950s.
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Charles de Gaulle
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