Nelson Mandela

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Born in Mvezo, Transkei on July 18, 1918, Rolihlahla Mendela then moved to Qunu until the age of 9 years. He was the first of his family who attend school. He also received the name
of Nelson from his teacher who is a Methodist. At age 16, he entered Clarkebury Boarding Institute study western culture.

In 1934, he began a program B.A. at Fort Hare University, where he met Oliver Tambo who became a loyal friend and colleague. Having opposed the policy of the university and asked to leave. He moved to Johannesburg and continued his studies at the University of South Africa after taking law at the University of the Witswatersrand.

As an activist Nelson Mandela following the African National Congress (ANC) of activities that antiapartheid 1942.Karena year, he underwent a variety of future punishment. On August 5, 1962, Mandela was arrested and imprisoned in the Johannesburg Fort and then on October 25, 1962, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and on June 12, 1964, he and a group of other activists were sentenced to life imprisonment.

 

After refusing parole to stop the armed struggle in February 1985, Mandela stayed in prison until released on February 11, 1990 on the orders of President Frederik Willem de Klerk after pressured by the whole world. Mandela and de Klerk get the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993

Nelson Mandela served as President of South Africa in a period of approximately 5 years (May 1994 - June 1999) after winning the election and became the first black president by de Klerk as a deputy president.

The problem of AIDS became the source of disappointment and regret those Mandela because in his reign, he pays little attention to this problem. His son, Makgatho Mandela, died of AIDS on January 6, 2005.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln was born in Kentucky, USA, where his father worked as a carpenter. He has lost his mother at an early age, then her father married again. But Lincoln and his sister had loved her
stepmother's.

Early in his career, Lincoln was elected to the parliament for the Illinois region in 1834. Then re-elected in 1838 and 1840. At that time, In 1846, Lincoln was elected to Congress. However, its membership was not renewed because he proposed legislation to end slavery in the District of Columbia. Disappointed, he re-activate his firm. He stopped his political activities for some time, but then he is better known by the public as an honest lawyer.

Lincoln could not stop for too long from the political world. In 1854, the issue of slavery made him jump back into politics. Taampaknya he had to compete with Stephen Douglas, who tried to subdue the South Americans who supported slavery, while the Northern region were opposed. Lincoln did not expect that half of this country to maintain the practice of slavery as opposed to half of his fellow countrymen. He thought it could not be made up of half the nation half slave instead. However, Lincoln was hit in the first round against Douglas, the U.S. Senate seats.

Shortly after Lincoln was elected President, Southern withdraw from the federation. On April 12, 1861, the South attacked the North area in the city of Fort Sunter. Civil War or the 'war between the states of the federation' has begun.

In November 1863, in the battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered a speech, which is remembered throughout history. He said "... was born a new nation, founded on liberty that upholds the recognition that all men are created equal." The words of Lincoln at Gettysburg gives two principles of freedom and equality - which the founding of the United States.

Lincoln died in a way that unexpected. While we were watching a theater with his wife, he was shot by a fellow named John Wilkes Booth. Pick her death, when peace has come for America. Maybe it was the culmination of events that have occurred as casualties of the end of slavery in America. After his death, Lincoln was known as a great man, and the ideals that have been upheld to be maintained by all Americans.

Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler (born 20 April 1889 - died 30 April 1945 at age 56 years) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) (Third Reich), Germany since
1934 until he died. On August 2, 1934, he became dictator of Germany after President von Hindenburg died.

Uniting position became chancellor and president of the Nazi Führer at once made ​​as a single party in Germany. He is also a Chairman of the Nationalist-Socialist Party (National Socialist Germany Workers Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP), known by the Nazis. Nazis officially disbanded after the German defeat in World War II are great because Hitler's dictatorship system. Hitler was a charismatic orator, Adolf Hitler was one of the most influential leaders in the world.

When World War II would end, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his wife whom he married not long ago in the bunker, Eva Braun.

Alois Hitler (Adolf Hitler's father from 1837 to 1903), is an employee of the customs office. His mother, Klara Pölzl (1860-1907), was the third wife of Alois. Hitler family moved moved from Braunau am Inn to Passau, Lambach, Leonding, and Linz. Small Hitler was a good student at school in junior high school. But in sixth grade, his first year in high school, Hitler failed and had to repeat the grade. Hitler later claimed that the failure was caused by the rebellion of his father, Adolf Hitler who wanted to follow a career as a customs officer.

After a long fight Adolf Hitler's defeat on every battlefield, Hitler realized that defeat is inevitable. Initial defeat of Hitler is now pounding the city of Kursk Soviet Union with Operation Citadel, the German forces consisted of the 800,000 infantry, 2700 armored tanks, 2,000 combat aircraft and led by General Erich Von Manstein and General Walther Models while the strength of the Soviet Union consisted of 1.3 million infantry , 3600 tanks, and 2,400 combat aircraft. Plan of attack has been understood in detail by the intelligence of the Soviet Union in Switzerland.

Germany suffered a blow deadly blow at Stalingrad and the Allied attack on Normandy and failed in the Ardennes Offensive, the counterattack by the German army, or Wehrmacht, and some remaining panzer division led by General Mantauffel during snow season to reclaim the city of Antwerp in Belgium. This attack took place in a stumbling - seok and end up failing because of lack of supplies and fuel for the German Panzer panzer so many who are still "Fresh from the Oven" like Tiger and Panther tanks sitting on the roadside due to run out of diesel.

Adolf Hitler realized his downfall was imminent and then married his mistress Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide together on April 30, 1945. His body was burned so as not to fall into enemy hands, and after Hitler's death a few days later the Germans finally surrendered to the Russian party and allies. After World War 2 ended, Germany was divided into 2 areas, namely West Germany who is in power and the East German allies who are in power the Soviet Union. This happens due to the Cold War. But at the end of the 20th century two separate German territory was finally reunited, after the collapse and destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India, October 2, 1869 - died in New Delhi, India, January 30, 1948 at the age of 78 years, (Devanagari script: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी) also called Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: "great soul" ) is a spiritual leader and politician from India.
Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most important involved in the Indian Independence

Movement. Gandhi is the activists who do not use violence, which carries the independence movement through peaceful demonstrations.
During the life of Mahatma Gandhi, many countries which are colonies of Great Britain. Residents in the colonies independence yearn for to govern their own country.

 Some of the members of his family worked in the government. As a teenager, Gandhi moved to England to study law, as a teenager. After he became a lawyer, he went to South Africa, a British colony, where he experienced racial discrimination known as apartheid. He then decided to become a political activist to be able to change the laws that are discriminatory. Gandhi also formed a non-violent movement.

 People from different religions and tribes living in India when it believes that India need to be broken up into several countries for different groups can have their own state. Many people wish for the followers of Hinduism and Islam have their own state. Gandhi was a Hindu but he likes the ideas of other religions including Islam and Christianity. Gandhi believed that human beings of all religions should have the same rights and peaceful coexistence in one state.

 The principle of Mahatma Gandhi, satyagraha, often translated as "right way" or "the road to truth", has inspired many generations of democracy activists and anti-racism like Martin Luther King, Jr.. and Nelson Mandela. Mahatma Gandhi often said that teaching values ​​is very simple, which is based on traditional Hindu beliefs: truth (satya), and non-violence (ahimsa).

 
On January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered a Hindu man is angry with Him because he too sided with the Muslims.

John F. Kennedy

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     Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, May 29, 1917 - died in Dallas, Texas, United States, 22 November 1963 at the age of 46 years, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was often called the John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK was the President of the United States is the
35th. In 1960, he became the youngest elected President of the United States and the second youngest after Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency. Kennedy became president after the inauguration on January 20, 1961.

     
Position stalled presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. He was killed by the Brunt of the bullet During a visit to Dallas (Texas) on November 22, 1963. Kennedy collapsed at the open car That uterus stores across the crowd to welcome his visit. On 25 November 1963, his body was Buried in Arlington, Washington, DC. As many as 800,000 people joined mourners in the streets of Washington

John F. Kennedy is a Kennedy clan member WHO blooded Irish-American, a leading family in the country's political world. He is regarded as a symbol of American liberalism. In World War II, John F. Kennedy was Admired for his courage and heroismenya Pls he saved a fellow sailor in the South Pacific Ocean. Kennedy represented Massachusetts in 1947-1960, as a member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960 with a slim victory in one of the toughest elections in American history.

Ohn F. Kennedy was the Youngest person elected as president (not to be confused with the Youngest Person to hold the Presidency, a record held by Theodore Roosevelt), the first U.S. president born in the 20th Century, and Also The Youngest president WHO Died.

Until 2005, John F. Also Kennedy was the only Roman Catholic ever elected as President of the United States, the Democratic vice president of the North last, and the last president of the WHO Died while serving.

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the world's sorry for his death.

      In a survey conducted by C-SPAN, the which sort the U.S. president, a panel of historians to give John F.
Kennedy's value in the second position in the general population as a whole and give uterus the third ranking of forty-two Presidents WHO never served. The agenda was not completed Because of death, most of the people the right policies show results through his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson.