Biographies of Historical Figures: Military Leaders, Politicians, and Pioneers, Quizzes of World History

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TERM 1

Hideki Tojo

DEFINITION 1 General in the imperial Japanese Army. Prime Minister of Japan 1941-44 Pg. 758 TERM 2

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

DEFINITION 2 Founder of the Republic of Turkey; began as an army officer. After WWI and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, called for a congress and elections. Attempted to transform Turkey into a modern secular republic; "Europeanized" Turkey, capitalism; Islam discouraged Pg. 710 TERM 3

Eugene Ely

DEFINITION 3 Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 - October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. TERM 4

Patrice Lumumba

DEFINITION 4 Socialist Prime Minister in the Congolese independence. Killed by CIA and Belgium TERM 5

Fidel Castro

DEFINITION 5 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He is currently the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba.

TERM 6

Tsar Nicholas

II

DEFINITION 6 Tsar of Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution TERM 7

Gregory Rasputin

DEFINITION 7 Russian mystic who could heal the Tsar's son of hemophilia. Influenced the Tsar and Tsarina TERM 8

Valentina Tereshkova

DEFINITION 8 Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (; born 6 March 1937) is the first woman in space, now a retired Soviet cosmonaut. TERM 9

Leonid Brezhnev

DEFINITION 9 Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (Ukrainian) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and thus political leader of the Soviet Union) from 1964 to 1982, serving in that position longer than anyone except Joseph Stalin. TERM 10

Ho Chi Minh

DEFINITION 10 H Ch Minh (, Ch Nm:), born Nguyn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyn i Quc (19 May 1890 - 2 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister (1946-1955) and president (1945-1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).