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Famous World Leaders

Can you name these famous world leaders based on description?
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Last updated: April 21, 2022
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336-323 BC
First to build an empire that encompasses three continents
Alexander the Great
221-210 BC
Unified China, constructed the Great Wall to keep out Huns
Qin Shi Huang
49-44 BC
Conquered Gaul and became dictator of Rome
Julius Caesar
768-814
Creator of the Holy Roman Empire, King of the Franks
Charlemagne
1206-1227
Creator of the Mongol Empire, conquered most of Asia
Genghis Khan
1682-1725
Changed Russia into a great power and built St. Petersburg
Peter the Great
1799-1815
Creator of the French Empire, conquered most of Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte
1819-1830
"El Libertador" who ended Spanish rule in South America
Simón Bolívar
1871-1890
"Iron Chancellor" who unified Germany under Prussian rule
Otto von Bismarck
1911-1912
Founder of the Republic of China and terminated feudalism
Sun Yat-Sen
1923-1938
Promoted westernization and democracy in Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1933-1945
Led the US through the Great Depression and WWII
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1947-1948
Leader of Indian resistance against British rule
Mahatma Gandhi
1940-1945, 1951-1955
British prime minister who refused to surrender in WWII
Winston Churchill
1947-1964
Promoted science, secularism and democracy in India
Jawaharlal Nehru
1954-1970
Founded the United Arab Republic, claimed the Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1943-1980
Main architect of socialist Yugoslavia and resistance in WWII
Josip Broz Tito
1959-1990
"Benevolent dictator" who made Singapore strong and rich
Lee Kuan Yew
1994-1999
South African politician who allowed Africans to vote
Nelson Mandela
1959-2008
Marxist politician who set up a Communist regime in Cuba
Fidel Castro
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3 Comments
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Level 81
Mar 20, 2022
Also see "Infamous World Leaders" here: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1514448/infamous-world-leaders
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Level 82
Mar 21, 2022
Was it not de Klerk who effectively allowed Africans to vote? Surely Mandela only came to power after the colour-based restrictions on voting were lifted?
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Level 81
Mar 21, 2022
True, but Mandela was a key figure in this process, and it was during his rule that all South Africans got to vote for the first time.