Set: World Cultures, 1st Semester People

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Nouri al Maliki Current leader of Iraq
Saddam Hussein former despotic leader of Iraq
Netanyahu former Prime Minister of Israel, Cheltenham Alumnus
Osama bin Laden leader of Al-Qaeda, believed to be responsible for the 9/11 attacks
Anwar Sadat Egyptian President who agreed to the Camp David Accords and was assassinated
Ataturk "Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize [westernize] Turkey as well as separate religion and government
Rabin Israeli leader who agreed to the Oslo Accrords and was assassinated
Khomeini leader of the Iranian Revolution
Ahmadinejad the Current president of Iran
Yasser Arafat longtime leader of the Palestinian people through the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) died in 2004
Nkrumah founder of Ghana's independence, Ghana's First President
Charles Taylor Liberian president in early 1990's, sold Sierra Leone rebels weapons for diamonds
King Menelik King from Ethiopia, fought against the Italians in the Battle of Atawa
Kenyatta 1st president of Kenya
Wangari Maathai Environmentalist, doctor, won Nobel Peace Prize
Desmond Tutu bishop who led international boycott of South Africa... won Nobel Peace Prize
Nelson Mandela 1st black pres. of South Africa... [South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)]
Idi Amin Dictator in Uganda from 1971-1977, killed over 800,000, exiled many ethnic groups from country, "Last King of Scotland"
Mugabe born on February 21, 1924) has served as the head of government in Zimbabwe since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as the first executive President since 1987
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf born October 29, 1938) is the current president of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected female president.
Leopold II was King of the Belgians, the founder and sole owner of the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC
Sundiata founder of Mali
Mansa Musa was a 14th century king who ruled the Mali Empire from about 1312 to 1337. He is remembered for his hajj (pilgrimage) and as a benefactor of Islamic scholarship.
Sunni Ali solidified control and governed from about 1464 to 1492 the Songhai Empire in eastern Africa
Queen Mother Asatewa Queen who resisted British rule
Reza Khan Prime Minister, then Shah of Iran: Goal was to free Iran from foreign rule and modernize it. It didn't work as well as in Turkey because he didn't have Ataturk's personality.
Nasser In 1952, he and other Egyptian Officers staged a coup. He became president of Egypt, and he strongly advocated Pan-Arabism as well as non-alignment with US or Soviet Union
WEB Du Bois Pan-Africanism advocater

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Creator madiswim
Created January 20, 2008
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Tags worldcultures, socialstudies, middleeast, jackson, africa
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