Leaders
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Malay | English |
|---|---|
| Gautama |  founder of Buddhism |
| Nehru | first Prime Minister of an independent India |
| Mahatma Ghandi | pivitol independence leader of India |
| Indira Ghandi | first woman Prime Minister of India, Green Revolution |
| Rajiv Ghandi | 7th Prime Minister of India, assassinated in 1991 when he campaigned |
| Sonia Ghandi | asked to be PM of India but refused, member of India's parliment |
| Manmohan Singh | current Prime Minister of India |
| Guru Nanak | founder of Sikhism |
| Ayub Khan | first Pakistani military official to gain power in a coup |
| Ali Jinnah | first Governor-General of Pakistan |
| Ali Bhutto | Prime Minister of Pakistan who persued a socialist agenda, nationalized gov't programs, but was executed after being accused of having an opponent assassinated |
| Muhammad Zia | overthrew Ali Bhutto and accused him of having an opponnet assassinated, went on a plane and it exploded in midair |
| Benazir Bhutto | 1st female leader of an Islamic country, Pakistan, her administration accused of corruptness |
| Pervez Musharraf | current President of Pakistan |
| Hasina and Zia | 2 woman political opponents in Bangladesh |
| Muhammad Yunus | creator of micro credit |
| Karzai | current President of Afghanistan |
| Gyanendra | most recent King of Nepal |
| Gayoom | leader of the Maldives |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | pro-democracy leader of Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| Jim Thompson | started Thailand's silk industry, suddenly disappeared |
| Pol Pot | Prime Minister of Cambodia, leader of the Khmer Rouge |
| Norodom Sihamoni | current King of Cambodia |
| Hun Sen | current Prime Minister of Cambodia |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam during most of the Vietnam War |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | named himself 1st President of South Vietnam |
| Thieu | President of South Vietnam elected by the people |
| Stamford Raffles | founder/discoverer of Singapore |
| Lee Kuan Yew | founding father and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore |
| Lee Hsien Loong | 3rd and current PM of Singapore |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | current President of the Philippines |
| Sukarno | found father and 1st President of Indonesia |
| Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | currnent President of Indonesia |
| Ferdinand marcos | former President turned dictator of the Philippines |
| Johnson | U.S. President who was in office during the largest escalation of our troops during the Vietnam War |
| Corazon Aquino | 1st female President of the Philippines |
| Suharto | top military official turned 2nd President of Indonesia |
| Abdullah | current Prime Minister of Malaysia |
| Dr. M | economic progress in Malaysia but doesn't like political opposition |
| Ibrahim | economic minister of Dr. M in Malaysia...accused of being gay by Dr. M |
| Olmert | current President of Israel |
| Ben-Gurion | founder of Israel |
| Netanyahu | conservative, won over Peres for Isreali President |
| Peres | 6 months as Israeli President after Rabin |
| Sharon | conservative Israeli President, overweight, surgery, coma, visited Temple Mount |
| Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu, Sharon, Olmert | 5 Israeli presidents in order |
| Begin | blew up King David Hotel, became Israeli President, was at Camp David Accords, assassinated in 1981 |
| Arafat | Head of the PLO |
| Sadat | President of Egypt who visited Israel, 1st Arab leader to visit Israel |
| Ralphe Bunche | black representative of the UN who came up with the plan to divide Palestine into 2 states--1 Arab, 1 Jewish |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | fundamentalist Muslim of Iran during Iranian Revolution |
| Kemel Ataturk | "Father of the Turks" |
| Bashar Al-Assad | Syria's leader |
| King Hussien | leader of Jordan from 1952-1999 |
| Abdullah II | current leader of Jordan |
| Maliki | current leader of Iraq |
| Saddam Hussein | former leader of Iraq, executed by US |
| Merkel | Chancellor of Germany |
| Ban Ki-Moon | Secretary-General of the UN |
| Sarkozy | current President of France |
| Brown | current Prime Minister of Great Britian |
| Hu Jintao | current leader of China |
| Lula da Silva | President of Brazil |
| Muammar al-Gaddafi | current leader of Libya |
| Kibaki | current President of Kenya |
| Odinga | current Prime Minister of Kenya |
| Kenyatta | founder of Kenya and leader during the Mau Mau Rebellion |
| Nyerere | started Tanzania's socialist system |
| Mobutu | President of Zaire |
| Kabila | current President of the DR Congo |
| Nelson Mandela | 1st black President of South Africa |
| Desmund Tutu | Anglican archbishop with Nobel Peace Prize |
| Ken Saro-Wiwa | Nigerian poet/environmentalist |
| Charles Taylor | corrupt leader of Liberia, killed/mutilated children |
| Ellen Sirleaf Johnson | current President of Liberia |
| Lt. Gen. Omar al-Bashir | current President of Sudan |
| John Garang | rebel leader of SPLA |
| Menelik II | won at the battle of Adowa in Ethiopia |
| Haile Selassie | longest ruling emperor of Ethiopia |
| Idi Amin | Ugandan genocide leader |
| Joseph Kony | LRA leader |
| Hugo Chavez | current leader of Venezuela |
| Correa | current leader of Ecuador |
| Uribe | current leader of Colombia |
| Garcia | current leader of Peru |
| Morales | current leader of Bolivia |
| Bachelet | current leader of Chile |
| Pinochet | former leader of Chile |
| Kirchner | current leader of Argentina |
| Peron | former leader of Argentina |
| Eva Peron | "people's leader" of Argentina |
| Ortega | current leader of Nicaragua |
| Noriega | current leader of Panama |
| Mansa Musa | leader of the Mali people |
| Sonni Ali | leader of the Songhai nation |
| Moi | leader of Kenya who burned ivory to show its distain for poachers |
| Maathai | Kenyan woman who won Nobel Prize for planting trees in desert |
| Mugabe | current leader of Zimbabwe |
| Harper | Canadian Prime Minister |
| Calderon | current President of Mexico |
| Fukuda | current Prime Minister of Japan |
| Bolivar | independence leader in northern South America |
| San Martin | independence leader in southern South America |
| Father Miguel Hidalgo | poor but well-edu. priest who organized a march to Mexico City and wanted to abolish slavery but was betrayed by peasants and executed |
| Morelos | farmer turned priest turned general who tried to declare independence in 1813 but was captured and executed |
| Iturbide | creole officer who captured Morelos, declared himself emperor but was later shot |
| Diaz | army officer became leader of Meixco, ruled like a dictator, overruled in 1910 revolution |
| Zapata | helped fight against Diaz in 1911 |
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