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Civ and Ideas II; Exam #3 - Names

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Arthur Balfour (882)
British prime minister who promised the Jews an independent homeland in Palestine in 1919. It was finally realized in 1948.
Mohandas Gandhi (876-877, 890-891)
Strove to gain Indians independence from Great Britain in 1947 through the means of Satia Graha, Civil Disobedience Tactics - which were also inspiring to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ho Chi Minh (902)
The communist leader who fought for Vietnamese independence from France during the 1950's.
Harry S Truman (944-945)
President of the US, 1945-53. Participated in the last of the post war conferences at Potsam with Churchill of England and Stalin of Russia to divide up post WWII Europe.
James Joyce (870)
Irish author who wrote the book "Ulysses" - which used stream of consciousness technique.
Igor Stravinsky (871)
Composed the ballet, "The Right of Spring" in Paris in 1913. A piece of music so radical that it led to riots in the streets.
Pablo Picasso (870-871)
Spanish painter who pioneered the cubis technique of painting. One of his most famous being "Wearnica" which portrayed the horrors of the Spanish war (1936).
Mao Zedong (877, 897)
First president of the Peoples Republic of China or Communist China in 1949.
Mustafa Kemal (883-886)
President of the Modern Progressive Turkey in its Republican form. Nicknamed "The Father of His Country" or "Adaturk". He pioneered western dress for men and women, a new alphabet was created, women's rights were advanced, and more democratic institutions were brought into being.
Chiang Kai-shek (895, 901)
Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Government. Had to flee to Taiwan in 1949 when the Communists took over China.
Jawaharlal Nehru (892)
First president of India. During his presidency, women gained the right to vote, right to divorce, right to marry outside of their caste.
Ning Lao (899)
A Chinese working woman whose autobiography, "A Daughter of Haun" describes her foot binding, her husband's abuse of opium, and the selling of their daughter to gain money for his habit and her life as a servant.
Adolf Hitler (907, 912, 919-925)
Chancellor of Germany who made himself the Nazi dictator 1933-1945. Led out in the haulecost that killed at least 6 million Jews plus hundreds of thousands of the insane, bisexuals, the infermed, Jehovah's Witnesses, political opponents, etc.
Charlie Chaplin (872)
Hollywood actor who did a satire or spoof on Hitler and Mussolini in his film, "The Great Dictator" in 1940
John Maynard Keynes (910)
British Economist who favored government deficit spending during the Depression in order to stimulate the economy (like a kickstart to the economy).
Primo Levi (928)
An Italian Jew who survived the Holocaust at Auschwitz and wrote about his treatment there.
T. S. Eliot (870)
English poet, converted to Christianity, wrote an extended poem, "The Waste Land" to describe a world of desolation
Jean-Paul Sartre (868)
A French existentialist philosopher. IN his view, humanity was all alone, without God, in a meaningless universe.
Louis Sullivan (870)
Leader in the 19th century American Chicago school of Architecture. Pioneered the use of steel and concrete. Building huge skyscrapers with electric elevators.
Oswald Spengler (870)
Wrote the book, "Decline of the West" to show western civilization as about to die and be conquered by Asian civilizations
Franz Kafka (870)
Wrote the novel "The Trial" and The Castle" in the 1920's. Shows helpless human beings being crossed by hostile forces.
Joseph Stalin (942-944, 952)
Soviet dictator from the 1920's-1953 when he died. He emphasized the 5 year plan to bring the soviet union forward in industrialization. Killed 25 million coolats, Jews, and political opponents during his forced collectivization of the farms.
Benito Mussolini (918-919, 924)
Italian Fascist dictator 1919-43. His private army was called the Black Shirts. He formed the pact of steel alliance with Germany and Japan leading into WWII. He was executed in Milan in 1943 with his mistress Clara Petosky.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (942-943)
US President 1933-45. The only president elected to 4 terms, the author of the New Deal which included the Agriculture Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the National Recovery Administration, and the whole alphabet soup of reform laws
Charles de Gaulle (949, 1022-1023)
French president from 1958-69. He developed nuclear arms for France, forcibly kept Britain out of the common market for many years, fought a war in Algeria during the 1950s and 60s.
Margaret Thatcher (952, 964, 967)
First female British prime minister from 1979-90. Nicknamed the "Iron Lady". She represented the conservative party.
Nikita Khrushchev (952-953, 979)
Soviet dictator who attacked Stalin, put missiles in Cuba, but eventually brought about Dayton in the US in the later 1960s.
Juan Peron (1013, 1015)
Argentina's army officer who made himself president and dictator in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Ousted from power in 1955. Led a brutal military dictatorship but made a great deal of industrial progress for Argentina. His wife, Ava Peron was even more popular - she helped the poor, established clinics, schools and hospitals.
Mikal Gagochof
Soviet leader from 1985-91 who advocated glassnose, paratrika, and ... for the USSR.
Franz Fanon (1032, 1055)
A French writer and author of the book, "Wretched of the Earth" in which he attacked colonialism in Africa.
Gamal Abdel Nasser (994, 1021, 1052)
Egyptian president who built the Aslon Dam and nationalized the Suez Canal taking it away from France and England.
Mrs. Indira Gandhi (993)
First female president of India, murdered by her Sikh guards in the garden over a dispute with Kashmir of the North and also her unpopular policy of pushing sterilization for Indian males to help decrease India's population.
Saddam Hussein (1001)
Iraq's dictator president who attacked Iran in 1980, attacked Cuate in 1990, starting the Persian Gulf war. Overthrown from power in 2003 and hanged in 2006.
Nelson Mandela (1020, 1026-1029)
Leader of the African National Congress, first black president of south Africa in 1994, following a 27 year imprisonment.
Osama bin Laden (992, 1045-1046)
Saudi born millionaire and leader of Al Quida, an international terrorist network. Hid out in the mountains in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2008 but was captured and killed by US Black Ops Marines in 2013.
Kofi Annan (1031, 1042-1043, 1049)
Secretary General of the United Nations, Author of the Millennial Project Report in the year 2000 which has 8 major goals for global welfare.
Rachel Carson (1065)
Popular writer in the 1960's, proponent of the Environment Health Movement and her book "Silent Spring" in 1962 attacked the use of pesticides like DDT and other pollutants on wildlife.
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