AP World: Unit 9 People You Need to Know!

Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

A dictator in Chile who came to power by a military takeover promising to restore stability.

Bob Marley

Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)

Fidel Castro

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Egyptian statesman who nationalized the Suez Canal (1918-1870)

Idi Amin

Ugandan military leader/president - responsible for hundreds of thousands of Christian/tribal deaths

Indira Gandhi

Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She was also prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977.

John F. Kennedy

President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Jonas Salk

Developed the polio vaccine in 1952

Julius Nyerere

The first president of Tanzania. He stated only hard work will end poverty. He tried to help the economy in Tanzania. Advocated for an African form of socialism.

Kim Il Sung

Communist leader of North Korea; his attack on South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994.

Kwame Nkrumah

Leader of nonviolent protests for freedom on the Gold Coast. When independence was gained, he became the first prime minister of Ghana. He develpoped economic projects, but was criticized for spending too much time on Pan-African efforts, and neglecting his own countries' issues. Founder of Ghana's independence movement.

Laika

first animal in space; USSR; a dog; Nov., 1957

Margaret Thatcher

Conservative British Prime Minister and first women to head a major European government (1925-)

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder of Facebook

Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Ethiopian soldier and politician who was the leader of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931); liberalization reforms

Mohammad Reza Shah

The emperor of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. Various controversial policies were enacted, including the banning of the communist Tudeh Party and a general suppression of political dissent by Iran's intelligence agency, SAVAK. Amnesty International reported that Iran had as many as 2,200 political prisoners in 1978. By 1979, political unrest had transformed into a revolution which, on 16 January, forced the Shah to leave Iran. Soon thereafter, the revolutionary forces transformed the government into an Islamic republic.

Neil Armstrong

1st person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11; July, 1969; his famous words - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Nelson Mandela

South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

Norman Borlaug

Founder of Green Revolution: Increased wheat and maize yield worldwide, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.

Norodom Sihanouk

Cambodia's hereditary ruler until he was ousted by Lon Nol in 1970. He tried desperately to maintain his country's neutrality during the Vietnam War. His life was a roller coaster of ups and downs from the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975 until he passed away in 2012.

Osama Bin Laden

(1957-) Founder of al Qaeda, the terrorist network responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other attacks.

Pele

Hawaiian goddess of the Volcanoes

Pol Pot

Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's

Puyi

Last emperor of China; deposed as emperor while still a small boy in 1912

Richard Nixon

1968 and 1972; Republican; Vietnam: advocated "Vietnamization" (replace US troops with Vietnamese), but also bombed Cambodia/Laos, created a "credibility gap," Paris Peace Accords ended direct US involvement; economy-took US off gold standard (currency valued by strength of economy); created the Environmental Protection Agency, was president during first moon landing; SALT I and new policy of detente between US and Soviet Union; Watergate scandal: became first and only president to resign; Vice President also

Ronald Reagan

US President; 1981-1989,"Great Communicator" Republican, conservative economic policies, replaced liberal Democrats in upper house with consevative Democrats or "boll weevils" , at reelection time, jesse jackson first black presdiential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro as VP running mate (first woman)

Sgt. Stubby

(1916-1926) dog and the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th Division in World War 1

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman and politician and the modern world's first female head of government

Wangari Maathai

Won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for "Green Belt" movement - planting trees in Kenya that provided food and fuel, and improved soil erosion and desertification.

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968)