Important Personalities - Democracy in the Contemporary World
Category : 9th Class
DEMOCRACY IN THE CONTEMPORARY
IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES
- Salvador Allende. One of the founders of the Chilean Socialist Party. He was elected President of Chile in 1970. On coming to power, he introduced radical land reforms and was ultimately overthrown by General Pinochet.
- General Augusto Pinochet. On 11th September 1973, General Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende's government and established a dictatorship.
- Lech Walesa. Founder of Solidarity, a trade union movement which ended communist rule in Poland. He became President of Poland in 1980.
- Kwame Nkrumah. He set up the Convention People's Party in 1949. He led the freedom struggle in Ghana, was its first President and held office till 1966 when he was overthrown by a military coup.
- Jawaharlal Nehru. A dynamic leader of the Indian National Congress who infused a new spirit and socialist thought into the national movement. Independent India's first Prime Minister, he was responsible for the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which increased India's status in the world.
- Aung San Suu Kyi. Leader of the National League for Democracy swept the polls in 1990. But no changes were effected in the government after the elections. She was placed under house arrest and was released only recently. In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
