Historical Figures Review

Truman made efforts to contain communism.

Otto Von Bismarck's policy of realpolitik helped Germany achieve unification.

Milosevic, Pinochet & Hitler are guilty of "crimes against humanity."

Nkrumah, Kenyatta and Mandela are all African nationalists.

The Enlightenment influenced Wollstonecraft & Wilberforce to seek reform (women and the slave trade).

Catherine the Great was an Enlightened Despot of Russia.

Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution during WWI in Russia.

Truman is responsible for the Five Year Plan and forced collectivization.

Napoleon's greatest failure was the invasion of Russia.

Castro is responsible for the policy of glasnost and the eventual collapse of the USSR.

Deng Xiaoping brought political freedom to China through the Four Modernizations.

Czar Nicholas (Romanov Dynasty) was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.

Ataturk, Meiji, Shah Pahlavi are all associated with westernization.

Ho Chi Minh led a Communist revolution in China.

Adam Smith supported free enterprise, competition and private ownership of businesses.

Toussaint L'ouverture led a slave revolt in Haiti and fought for independence.

King Louis XIV believed that people have the right to life, liberty and property.

Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran and created a theocracy.

Suleiman, Akbar the Great and Louis XIV had strong, centralized governments.

Emperor Meiji isolated Japan from Europe.

A Zionist is someone who is against modernization.

Mussolini & Hitler were both communists.

Lad Madres were responsible for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Robespierre is responsible for targeting the enemies of the French Revolution.

The Boxers supported foreign influence in China (Treaty of Nanking).

Woodrow Wilson proposed the 14 Points, which aimed to punish Germany.

Mazzini, Garibaldi & Cavour were Latin American nationalists.

Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge to victory during the Cambodian Civil War, and is responsible for the "killing fields."

The Little Red Book and the Cultural Revolution are associated with Kenyatta.

The assassination of Nelson Mandela led to the outbreak of World War I.

Gandhi is associated with civil disobedience in freeing India from British rule.

Mandela fought to end apartheid (i.e. racial segregation).

Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto.