THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WORLD LEADERS OF ALL TIME

7 Fidel Castro 7 The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 took Castro by surprise and meant the end of generous Soviet subsi- di ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 cultural and economic entity, the liberation of which would require an in ...

7 Che Guevara 7 became well known in the West for his opposition to all forms of imperialism and neocolonialism and for his atta ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 South and other parts of the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Peac ...

7 Martin Luther King, Jr. 7 Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. This secure upbring- ing, however, did not prevent King from exp ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which gav ...

7 Martin Luther King, Jr. 7 strength and prophetic quality of King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he emphasized his ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Challenges of the Final Years In March 1965 King was criticized for yield ...

7 Martin Luther King, Jr. 7 Building in Washington, D.C., destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin L ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 PLO groups. In 1993 he led the PLO to a peace agreement with the Israeli ...

7 Ya ̄sir ‘Arafa ̄t 7 invasion of Lebanon forced ‘Arafāt to abandon his Beirut headquarters at the end of August 1982 and set up ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 in his view, the right of Palestinian refugees to return. ‘Arafāt’s decis ...

7 Helmut Kohl 7 the Christian Social Union (CSU), but lost to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by Helmut Schmidt. In 1982 m ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 constituent states joined West Germany in a reunified Germany. On Dec. 2, ...

7 Mikhail Gorbachev 7 joined the Komsomol (Young Communist League) in 1946 and drove a combine harvester at a state farm in Stav ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 free-market mechanisms also began to be introduced into the Soviet econom ...

7 Mikhail Gorbachev 7 countries. By the summer of 1990, he had agreed to the reunification of East with West Germany and even as ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 with Yeltsin, Gorbachev quit the Communist Party, dis- banded its Central ...

7 Dalai Lama XIV 7 Life in Tibet The 13th Dalai Lama died in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, on Dec. 17, 1933. According to custom, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 crowds surrounding the Dalai Lama’s summer palace to protect him. During ...