Important Persons

Question 1

Simon Bolivar

Answer 1

Son of a merchant planter family
Educated on enlightenment texts
Waged extended wars of independence against Spanish armies and allies between 1810-1824

Question 2

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 2

French commander
InvAded Egypt in 1798
Invasion challenged ottoman rule and balance of power in Europe

Question 3

Muhammad Ali

Answer 3

Aligned himself with influential Egyptian fam.
After French withdrawal in 1801 he won a chaotic struggle for power in Egypt
Key to his power was Egypt. Army

Question 4

Tecumseh

Answer 4

Brother of Tenskwatawa/apart of Shawnee tribe
Spread his message of Indian renaissance among Indian villages
Urged Indians to resist selling land to Americans

Question 5

Tenskwatawa

Answer 5

Native American prophet
Fought against American encroachment
Had one eye was succeeded by his brother

Question 6

Charles Darwin

Answer 6

Went on 4 year voyage in 1831 for Latin America & the south seas
Collected specimens and recorded observations
Developed many ideas he would put forth in the 1859 origin of species

Question 7

Sun Yat Sen

Answer 7

Born in southern China
Studied med in the Brit colony of Hong Kong
Turned to politics during sino-Japanese war

Question 8

Usman

Answer 8

Islamic scholar and teacher
Exiled from Gobir by the king yunfa one of his former students
Led the Fulani army in jihad against the Hausa kingdoms

Question 9

Mustafa kernel ataturk

Answer 9

Helped forge modern Turkish nation state
Introduce late alphabet to turkey
Ottoman army officer

Question 10

Chiang kai-Shek

Answer 10

Supported anti-imperialism
Led the guomindang on a military campaign in 1926-1928
Seized power & established a new national gov based in nanjing

Question 11

Gandhi

Answer 11

Studied law in England
Worked in South Africa on behalf of Indian immigrants
Spelled out the moral and political philosophy of nonviolent resistance

Question 12

Adolf hitler

Answer 12

Dominated the nationalist workers movement in Germany and changed its name to Nazis
First nazi party platform in 1920 combined nationalism with anti capitalism and anti-semitism

Question 13

Benito Mussolini

Answer 13

…sought to organize veterans into mass political movement called fascism
Made deals with big business and the church
Skilled at using propaganda like films and radio to recapture Roman imperial greatness

Question 14

Joseph Stalin

Answer 14

Became leader of the communist party of the Soviet Union in 1922
Wanted replace capitalism with socialism
Wanted to invent socialist forms of housing culture values dress etc