global who's who

Question 1

Czar Nicholas II

Answer 1

Last Czar of Russia
(r. 1894-1917)

Question 2

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 2

Head of Russian Provisional Government (1917)

Question 3

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 3

Leader of Bolsheviks
Leader of the USSR (1922-1924)

Question 4

Joseph Stalin

Answer 4

Lenin’s successor as Leader of USSR
(r. 1924-1953)

Question 5

Emperor Puyi

Answer 5

Last Emperor of China
(r. 1908-1912)

Question 6

Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian)

Answer 6

Founding leader of Kuomintang (KMT = Chinese Nationalist Party)
“Father” of the Republic of China (1912)

Question 7

Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)

Answer 7

“Generalissimo” of the Kuomintang
(r. 1928-1975; after 1949 in Taiwan)

Question 8

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)

Answer 8

Revolutionary
“Chairman” of Chinese Communist Party & Founding Chairman of the People’s Republic of China
(r. 1949-1976)