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Famous People
Regents Review
Martin Luther
Place: Germany Goal: to reform Roman Catholic Church Action: posted 95 Thesis, believed in faith
alone for salvation Protestant Reformation shattered
religious unity in Europe
John Locke
Enlightened thinker: government by the consent of the people.
Natural rights: humans have unalienable rights. If the government does not protect those rights you can rebel.
Influenced the writing of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
Other enlightened philosophers: Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu: civil liberties
Louis XIV
Country: France Policies:
Absolute monarch ( divine right) Persecuted Huguenots (Protestants) Built Versailles Palace Pushed France to the verge of bankruptcy Fought many wars. French culture becomes the model for the rest of
Europe.
Peter the Great Place: Russia Position: Czar Important Policies and events:
Desired to westernize and modernize Russia Successful in westernization Desired a warm water port Oppressive ruler Builds St. Petersburg
Catherine the Great
Country: Russia Position: Czarina Important Events and policies:
Westernization Defeats the Ottoman Empire and wins a warm
water port on the Black Sea Partitions Poland with Austria and Prussia
Napoleon Bonaparte
Country: France Policies:
Napoleonic Code: legal code that included many Enlightenment Ideas.
Legal equality and religious toleration University of France: established a government supervised
public school system. Supported new industry and built roads and canals. Nationalism: increased French nationalism. Nationalism
spread throughout Europe.
Karl Marx
Place: great Britain during the Industrial Revolution
Philosophy: Communism Class warfare rich abuse the poor Haves vs the have nots Peasants (proletariat) needs to overthrow the rich
factory owners ( bourgeoisie) Need to take the means of production Form a classless society
Adam Smith
Wrote the Wealth of Nations Advocated Laissez faire economics Capitalism: private property Government should leave businesses alone Natural laws of Economic: supply and
demand and competition would spread wealth to everyone.
Invisible hand controlled economy
Supporters of Westernization Russia: Catherine the Great, Peter the
Great Iran: Shah Rezi Pahlevi Turkey: Kemal Ataturk Japan: Emperor Meiji
Otto von Bismarck
Country: Prussia Position: Chancellor Policies and important events
Lead unification of Germany Blood and Iron: unite through warfare Real Politik Social Security Kulterkampf: fight for civilization against Catholic
Church
Nelson Mandela
Country: South Africa Position: leader of the fight against
Apartheid and 1st President. Important Events: Apartheid: separation of
the races, pass laws, non violent approach to over throw apartheid
Bishop Tutu
Country: South Africa Position: leader against Apartheid Important Events: non violent approach. Demanded that other countries pass
economic sanctions against South Africa Successful Wins Noble Peace Prize
Totalitarian leaders: Communism: government control of economy(command), “classless” society Russia/Soviet Union, V.I. Lenin, Stalin: M. Gorbachev,
1917-1990 China, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping: 1949 Cuba, Fidel Castro:1959 Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh: 1975 Cambodia: Pol Pot North Korea: Kim Jong Il
Communist Dictators
Lenin
Country: Russia/Soviet Union Position: communist revolutionary leader/
supreme leader of Russia Important events:
Russian Revolution: communists take over Russia Civil War NEP: New Economic Policy combined elements
of capitalism and communism
Joseph Stalin Place: Soviet Union Position: Supreme leader of Soviet Union Important Events:
5 year plans: wanted to boost industrial and agricultural production
Purges: eliminate opposition to Stalin Gulags: slave labor camps Ukrainian Genocide: 10 million killed or
starved to death World War II
Mikhail Gorbachev
Place: Soviet Union Position: Supreme leader of Soviet Union Important Policies and Events:
Glasnost: new openness: freedom of speech and religion
Perestroika: economy plan that combined capitalism and communism
Lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe.
Jomo Kenyatta
Country: Kenya Position: nationalist leader/ 1st President Important Events: uprising to overthrow
British colonialism in Kenya. Leader of the Mau Maus
Kwame Nkrumah
Country: Ghana Position: nationalist and independence
leader; 1st president Important Events: fought against British
control; first African nation to achieve independence from colonial rule
Mao Zedong Country: China Position: Communist revolutionary leader;
supreme leader of China Important Events:
Communist Revolution: wins it because of the support of the peasants and women.
Great Leap Forward: program in China in 1958 to increase agricultural production and industrial output. It was a failure. 20-30 million Chinese die
Cultural Revolution: program lunched in China to renew loyalty to communism and purge opponents of Mao. Hurt the Chinese economy
Deng Xiaoping Country: China Position: Supreme leader of China Important Events:
Reform of the economy; mixing elements of capitalism with communism.
The responsibility system, special economic zones
Tiananmen Square Massacre: 1989 students killed and jailed because they protested for democracy
Kemal Ataturk
Country: Turkey after WW I Important Policies
Overthrew government headed by a Sultan Westernized Turkey Secular (non religious) government industrializes
Mohandas Gandhi
Country: India Position: Nationalists leader Important events and policies:
Lead Indian National Congress against British Rule Salt March: nonviolent protest of tax on salt by British Homespun Movement: produce own clothes and boycott
British goods Civil disobedience, passive resistance Gained independence for India
Pol Pot
Country: Cambodia Position: Communist leader Important Events and policies:
Lead the Khmer Rouge Communist leader killed 2 million people Purged any enemies of communism and sent
them to the rural areas. Genocide
Slobadan Milosevic
Country: Serbia Position: President Important Events and Policies:
Ethnic cleansing: of Croatians and Muslims in Bosnia
Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo On trial for war crimes
Ayatollah Khomeini
Place: Iran Goal: remove Shah Reza Pahlavi and western
influence and replace it with an Islamic Fundementalist state
Set up a Theocracy Impact: Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Government required strict adherence to Islamic law and enacted anti-western policies, held American hostages for over one year, women lost rights
Fidel Castro
Country: Cuba Leader: Communist leader Policies and events
Totalitarian Dictator Lead Communist Revolution Conflict with US Cuban Missile Crisis
Women
World Leaders: Indira Gandhi (India), Benazar Bhutto (Pakistan), Golda Meir (Israel), Margaret Thatcher (Great Britain)
Humanitarian Concerns: Mother Tereasa (India), Aung Su (Myanmar), Rigoberta Menchu (Guatamala)
Enlightened thinker: Mary Wollstonecraft