Rulers Super Quiz Section IV
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- Winston Churchill
- England. Major wartime goal: Protect if not strengthen the British Empire. This prime minister also angered Saudi officials by insisting that he be provided with alcohol and tobacco.
- Mao Zedong
- 1949-1976. China. Leader of Communists who defeated a corrupt Nationalist government in China.
- Jiang Jieshi
- -1949. China. Leader of the Chinese Nationalist government whose unpopular regime the US bankrolled. Was overthrown by Mao Zedong of the Communist party.
- Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnam. This Communist led a successful peasant revolt against the French in Indochina. Had his own brand of nationalist socialism and his main goal was liberation from the colonial French. He advocated the redistribution of land held by big landowners.
- Francois Mitterrand
- France. Minister of the interior, later president of France. Led a brutal opposition to Algerian independence. Declared: "The only negotiation [regarding the issue of Algerian independence], is war!"
- General Charles de Gaulle
- 1958-- . France. Emerged from retirement and demanded the impotent Fourth Republic give way to the new Fifth Republic. REvised France's constitution to centralize power in the exectuive office of the president, chosen by popular mandate, and joined by a prime minister. Negotiated Algerian independence after which Algerian nationalists published French atrocities and appealed to the postwar affirmation of human rights.
- General Charles de Gaulle
- France. In 1962, this president signed the Evian accords, which separated Algeria from France and made Algeria an independent country.
- Golda Meir
- Israel. This prime minsiter declared that the "dream " of establishing Israel "had come true" but "too late to save those who had perished in the Holocaust."
- Faisal
- Saudi Arabia. This king announced he would gladly negotiate for expanded oil drilling in his country, provided that the British were excluded. The British, however, were secret partners to the American and Dutch companies that worked with the Saudis.
- Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 1952- . Egypt. Dreams for Egypt included economic modernization of and true national independence. Prime goal was to reclaim the Suez Canal. In July of 1956, he nationalized the canal after the US blocked the loans for the building of the Aswan High Dam.
- Anthony Eden
- England. Determined that Britain should not lose ground in Egypt and immediately demanded the canal's return, claiming the Egyptians were not up to running it on their own.
- Richard Nixon
- United States. Declared that the US refusal to intervene in the Israeli/ British attack was a "declaration of independence" from Europe's colonial ambitions.
- Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Egypt. This president's triumph in the Israeli/ British attack inspired confidence that the Middle East could assert its interests and win, and it signaled to other developing nations that they could act independently even in a world run by superpowers.
- Idi Amin
- Uganda. This dictator expelled all Ugandans of Asian lineage to make Uganda a "black man's country" in 1973.