Important World Leaders in History


1. Paavo Lipponen was the Prime Minister of Finland.

2. Leszek Miller was the Prime Minister of Poland.

3. George Washington was the first President of the United States.

4. Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.

5. Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.

6. Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India.

7. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

8. Nelson Mandela was the first President of South Africa after the end of apartheid.

9. Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

10. Mao Zedong was the founder of the People’s Republic of China.

11. Angela Merkel was the first female Chancellor of Germany.

12. Richard Nixon was the first President of the United States to visit China.

13. Golda Meir was the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

14. Barack Obama was the first black President of the United States.

15. Dilma Rousseff was the first female President of Brazil.

16. Kim Campbell was the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

17. Andrew Johnson was the first President of the United States to be impeached.

18. Julia Gillard was the first female Prime Minister of Australia.

19. Jawaharlal Nehru was the leader of the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of India.

20. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President of the United States to be elected to four terms in office.

21. Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and oversaw the construction of the Berlin Wall.

22. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first female President of Liberia.

23. Michelle Bachelet was the first female President of Chile.

24. Nelson Mandela was the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and later became the President of South Africa.

25. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.

26. Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.

27. Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India.

28. Angela Merkel was the first female Chancellor of Germany.

29. Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

30. Fidel Castro was the leader of the Cuban Revolution and the Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976.

31. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was the first female President of Argentina.

32. Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War and oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

33. Golda Meir was the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

34. Barack Obama was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the first African-American President of the country.

35. Corazon Aquino was the first female President of the Philippines.

36. David Ben-Gurion was the leader of the Zionist movement and the first Prime Minister of Israel.

37. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Russian Revolution and the first head of the Soviet Union.

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