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24 Cards in this Set
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Joseph McCarthy |
He was a US Senator that believed communism had infiltrated the US. He became America's most aggressive and prominent communist hunter, gaining popular support in the US. His over-aggression eventually led to his demise. |
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Achmed Sukarno |
The leader of the Indonesian nationalist movement. |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
He was a prominent figure of the Hindu negotiations during the partition of India. He also won India's first election as a part of the congress party, setting up the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. |
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Ho Chi Minh |
He was the leader of the Viet Minh, Vietnam's most important nationalist organization. |
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara |
He was an internationalist and supported Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution. |
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Juan Peron |
He was the leader of Argentina after WWII and pursued a populist policy under the wing of his self-named policy "Peronism". |
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David Ben-Gurion |
He was the leader of the Zionist cause in Palestine after WWII |
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Gamal Abdel Nasser |
He was the leader of Egypt after WWII and emerged as a global hero after he successfully maintained control of the Suez Canal after nationalizing it. |
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Leopold Senghor |
He was the leader of the Senegalese nationalist movement. |
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Kwame Nkrumah |
He emerged as the leader of the Ghanaian nationalist movement after a nationalist protest was fired upon by British soldiers. |
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Charles DeGaulle |
He took over as the leader of France to stop the French army from executing a coup d'etat on the French government. In power, he greatly increased presidential power by establishing the 5th Republic. |
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Indira Gandhi |
She served as prime minister of India after Jawaharlal Nehru, serving as the second installment in the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that dominated Indian politics for decades. |
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Thurgood Marshall |
He served as a civil rights lawyer for the NAACP |
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Anwar Sadat |
He was the 3rd president of Egypt, and led the Yom Kippur war to regain the Sinai Peninsula. He played a role in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. |
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Yasser Arafat |
He was the leader of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and negotiated with Israel for peace. |
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Ayatollah Khomeini |
He was an avowed Islamist, and was a prominent figure in the Iranian Revolution despite being exiled in France. After the Iranian Hostage Crisis discredited the pro-western reformers, he emerged as leader of Iran. |
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Henry Kissinger |
He invented shuttle diplomacy, and used it to expedite peace between Egypt and Israel during the Yom Kippur war. Furthermore, he and Richard Nixon tried to improve US relations with China and the Soviet Union, exploiting the Sino-Soviet Split. |
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Betty Friedan |
She was a prominent figure in the rise of 2nd wave feminism in the US. By writing her book "The Feminine Mystique", she spoke what many women had been thinking. |
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Lech Walesa |
He was the leader of the solidarity movement in Poland, and emerged as the political leader of Poland after the Velvet Revolution established a new government in Poland by winning its first election. |
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Paul Robeson |
He was an extremely talented African American man. After practicing law, he pursued an acting career, becoming quite famous. He hated the racist indignities he was subjected to, and was an activist. After visiting the Soviet Union and proclaiming support for communism, his passport was revoked. |
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Heinrich Himmler |
He was the leader of the S.S., the organization that was put in charge of the extermination of the unacceptables after the Wannsee Conferene. |
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George Marshall |
He orchestrated the Marshall Plan, a plan of economic recovery to Western Europe after WWII |
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Augusto Pinochet |
He was the military leader of Chile that replaced Allende (after he was violently overthrown and killed). He represented the "new breed of cat", as he was a long term ruler. He was brutal, repressive, and anti-communist. |
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Boris Yeltsin |
He was the main rival of Gorbachev in the Soviet Union. His policy reflected strong support for both democracy and capitalism, and he appealed to the nationalism of the Russians for support. |
