LEADERS PRESENTATION:EUROPE (EURO ZONE)2 Positional Leaders2 Non-Positional Leaders

By Scott Harris, Abdul Al-Nazah, Jamie Haney

LECH WALESAPolish politician, trade-union organizer, human rights activist, 1943 to present(Lek Wah-Len-Sa)

PERSONAL LIFE• born in 1943

• Family

• School (1961), Military (1965-1967), Job (1967)

• Married w/ Children (1969)

• Moustache

SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT• 1968 encouraged shipyard colleagues to boycott

• *1970 Illegal strikes (30 workers deaths)

• Fired in 1976 (jobless)

• Food price increases (scaled fence)

• *Communist Government made agreement (downfall)

• Solidarity public figure (speeches)

PRESIDENCY• 1990 elected president

• 1993 founded own party (BBWR)

• Privatization and Free market economy

• Support Poland’s entry to NATO

• Lost 1995 election

LATER YEARS

• Allegations of being a collaborator

• Religious and personal views

• Honours

VÁCLAV HAVELCzech playwright, essayist, poet, philosopher, dissident and statesman; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011 (vak-lov Hov-el)

EARLY LIFE• born in Prague on 5 October 1936

• Education

• Military service

• Stage hand

• The Garden Party (1963)

• Plays banned in Czechoslovakia in 1968

DISSIDENT• Assisted resistance during Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• Samizdat

• Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted (1979)

• Essay: Power of the Powerless (Oct 1978)

• Stage hand

• The Garden Party (1963)

• Plays banned in Czechoslovakia in 1968

PRESIDENCY• Velvet Revolution

• President of Czechoslovakia (1989)

• First free elections (1990)

• 1992 (re-election, but fail majority) then resignation

• 1993 re-elected President of Czech Republic (less power)

• Controversy at home

• Biggest accomplishment

• Re-elected 1998 – 2003 (health issues)

POST PRESIDENCY AND DEATH

• Forum 2000

• Still popular

• Human rights

• Death 2011 (age 75)

QUEEN ELIZABETH IIMonarchy of United Kingdom (Title of Queen) and Commander in Chief of British Armed Forces

REIGN 1952 TO PRESENT• Social Change

• Overseas visits

• Leadership and voluntary service

• Additional duties

ADOLF HITLERGerman politician and the leader of the Nazi Party

PERSONAL LIFE • Born in 1889

• Family members

• Relationship with parents

• Brother’s death

• Volunteered in the army

PRESIDENCY• Was elected

• Powerful personality

• Attacked neighbors

• Killed millions

• Failed at world domination