WHAP unit 8 vocab PEOPLE

Abimael Guzman

Peruvian Maoist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, founded the organization Communist Party of Peru, led a rebellion against the Peruvian government

Alexander Dubcek

First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Leader of Czechoslovakia)

Benazir Bhutto

a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996, the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country

Charles de Gaulle

a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France

Douglas MacArthur

a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army, commander of UN troops during said Korean War, fired for insubordination for wanting to use the atom bomb on China, which was helping the North Koreans during the war

Dwight Eisenhower

the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961, during the start of the Cold War, was pivotal to allied victory in WWII due to his leadership in operation torch and operation overlord

Gamal Abdel Nasser

second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970, led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year, gained popularity due to his nationalization of the Suez Canal and his political victory in the subsequent Suez Crisis

Haile Selassie

Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974,introduced political and social reforms including the 1931 constitution and the abolition of slavery in 1942. He led the empire during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, and after its defeat was exiled to the United Kingdom

Harry Truman

33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, implemented the Marshall Plan in the aftermath of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism

Ho Chi Minh

a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam/North Vietnam in 1945, Communist leader of North Vietnam who led the fight against French and US forces.

Idi Amin

a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979, his administration carried out human rights abuses, including mass killings, and collapsed the Ugandan economy

Imre Nagy

1956 became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, attempted to leave the Warsaw Pact; executed after the Soviet invasion.

Indira Gandhi

the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC)

John F. Kennedy

the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963, served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba

Kilius Nyerere

a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as president from 1964 to 1985

Kwame Nkrumah

baptized Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from the United Kingdom

Lyndon Johnson

36th president of the United States, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 until 1969, Born and raised in the segregationist South, he had to compromise during the height of the civil rights movement

Mao Zedong

(26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), a Chinese revolutionary, politician, writer, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), made a Chinese adaptation of Marxism–Leninism

Martin Luther King Jr.

an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968, advanced civil rights in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination

Mengistu Haile Mariam

an Ethiopian former politician, Leader of the Marxist military junta in Ethiopia.

Mohammad Mosaddegh

an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, his administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation on the rent of land, marked by the clash with the British government, known as the Abadan Crisis

Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

last Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution led by Ruhollah Khomeini

Nelson Mandela

a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, His administration focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation, a national peace accord and eventual multiracial democracy

Nikita Khrushchev

the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Soviet Union, he stunned the world by denouncing his predecessor Joseph Stalin, embarking on a campaign of de-Stalinization, and presiding over the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962

Osama bin Laden

Founder of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

Pol Pot

Leader of the Khmer Rouge who oversaw the Cambodian genocide.

Wladyslaw Gomulka

Polish communist leader who sought a "Polish path to socialism."