World Leaders and Politicians

• It began in 1939 and gained great popularity in the fertile Mekong delta area. 
• It drew on religious ideas popular in anti-French uprisings of the nineteenth century.
•  The founder of Hoa Hao was a man called Huynh Phu So.
  
• . His criticism against useless expenditure had a wide appeal. He also opposed the sale of child brides, gambling and the use of alcohol and opium. 
  
• The French tried to suppress the movement inspired by Huynh Phu So. They declared him mad, called him the Mad Bonze, and put him in a mental asylum. 
  

On 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic 'Dandi Salt March', where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government. Followed by seventy-nine ashramites, Gandhi embarked on his march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi that is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

On 6th April 1930, after a prayer, Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, ‘with this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire’. He then boiled it in seawater, producing illegal salt. He asked his thousands of followers to do the same and broke the salt law.

The highest rank in the Indian Army is the General, who serves as the Chief of the Army Staff.

Headed by a Director General, BSF consists of 159 battalions with 220,000 personnel. Delegated duties are carried out by a variety of directorates operations, intelligence, IT, training, administration, etc. The BSF is also one of the few forces in India to have maritime and aviation capabilities.

Louis Blanc was a French socialist politician who advocated for the creation of national workshops to provide employment for workers, making him a key figure in the 1848 revolution.

The Austrian Chancellor Duke Metternich hosted the Congress of Vienna in 1815, where he played a central role in shaping the conservative settlement for Europe.

Muammar Gaddafi led the 1969 Libyan coup d'etat that overthrew King Idris and established the Libyan Arab Republic.

After the civil wars and the conflict with Marius, Sulla marched on Rome and declared himself dictator, holding power before eventually resigning.

Michelle Bachelet, daughter of General Bachelet was elected as President of Chile in January 2006. A medical doctor and a moderate socialist, Michelle became the first woman to be a Defence Minister in Latin America.

The U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as START, was signed on July 31, 1991 by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001 resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.

The name 'United Nations', coined by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in a Declaration by the UN in 1942.

The main architect of the League of Nations was Woodrow Wilson. The  League of Nations was established on 10 January 1920, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is credited with coining the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries during World War II. It was first used in the 1942 Declaration by United Nations.

Nazis wanted only a society of ‘pure and healthy Nordic Aryans’. They alone were considered ‘desirable’. Only they were seen as worthy of prospering and multiplying against all others who were classed as ‘undesirable’. 

Prussia took on the leadership of the movement for national unification. Its chief minister, Otto von Bismarck, was the architect of this process carried out with the help of the Prussian army and bureaucracy. Three wars over seven years-with Austria, Denmark and France-ended in Prussian victory and completed the process of unification.