MKD MKP 190-present Flashcards
Mustapha Kemal
Led Turkish nationalist movement in Ottoman Empire
Woodrow Wilson
President during wwi
VI Lenin
Leader of Bolsheviks during 1917 October Revolution
Joseph Stalin
Leader of USSR during ww2
Sun Yat-sen
Co-founder of the guomindang party in China
Mao Zedang
Leader of Chinese communist party
Deng Xiaoping
Reformist leader of communist party of China
Ho Chi Minh
Communist revolutionary who led the Minh revolution
Mohandas Ghandi
Led India to independence from Great Britain
Gamal abdel Nasser
Overthrew Egyptian monarchy
Fidel Castro
Overthrew the Baustia government in Cuba
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader
Jomo Kenyatta
Founding father of Kenya
Kwame Nkrumah
Oversaw Ghana’s independence from British colonial rule
Patrice Lumumba
Independence leader in Belgian Congo
Kim 2 Sung
Leader of Communist North Korea
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese nationalist party leader
Nikita Kruschev
Soviet leader responsible for de-Stalinization
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Leader of All-India Muslims league
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt
Winston Churchill
Prime minister of Great Britain
Franklin Roosevelt
President of us during Great Depression
Hideki Tojo
Japanese politician who was the prime minister
Golda Meir
Israeli politician
Benito Mussolini
Created fascism
1905
Russo-Japanese war
1910-1920
Mexican a Revolution
1911
Chinese Revolution
1914
WWI
1917
Russia. revolution
1919
Treaty of Versailles
1929
Stock Market Crashed
1931
Japanese evasion of Manchuria
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1941
Pearl Harbor
1945
End of WWI
1947
Independence and partition of India
1948
Birth of Israel
1949
Chinese communist revolution
1950-1953
Korean War
1954
Vietnamese defeat French
1956
De-stalinization
1959
Cuban Revolution
1962
Cuban missile crisis
1967
6-day war
1973
Yom Kippur war
1979
Iranian Revolution
1987
1st Palestinian intifada
1989
Tiananmen Square
1990
Namibia gains independence
1991
Fall of USSR
1994
Genocide of Rawanda
2001
9/11
2007
Great Recession
2011
Wiki leaks “Arab springs” democracy