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Choose a character from the table of 30 below, or from one of these mystery seven:
- A dictator whose remains ended up in a soap box with a leg missing.
- A nationalist who escaped from jail using a key and file smuggled in a fruit cake.
- A tyrant who loved watching Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
- A military leader who had an exclusion zone of six paces around him for subordinates.
- A world leader who had green and black teeth.
- A renowned pacifist who was a sergeant and won three war medals.
- A propagandist who was his country’s prime minister for a day before committing suicide.
Al-Gaylani, Rashid Ali | Iraqi politician | 1892-1965 | |
Al-Husseini, Amin | Palestinian religious leader | c.1897-1974 | |
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal | Turkish military leader and statesman | 1881-1938 | |
Aung San | Burmese politician | 1915-1947 | |
Baldwin, Stanley | UK politician | 1867-1947 | |
Bose, Subhas Chandra | Indian politician | 1897-1945 | |
Budget Protest League | UK pressure group | 1909-1910 | |
de Gaulle, Charles | French soldier and politician | 1890-1970 | |
de Valera, Éamon | Irish politician | 1882-1975 | |
Gandhi, Mohandas | Indian politican | 1869-1948 | |
Hitler, Adolf | German political leader | 1889-1945 | |
Goebbels, Joseph | German politician | 1897-1945 | |
Jinnah, Mohamed Ali | Pakistani politician | 1876-1948 | |
Kenyatta, Jomo | Kenyan politician | c.1897-1978 | |
Keynes, John Maynard | UK economist | 1883-1946 | |
Mao, Zedong | Chinese military and political leader | 1893-1976 | |
Mossadegh, Mohammad | Iranian politician | 1882-1967 | |
Mussolini, Benito | Italian politician | 1883-1945 | |
Nasser, Gamal Abdel | Egyptian politician | 1918-1970 | |
Pétain, Philippe | French military leader and politician | 1856-1951 | |
Shah, Reza | Iranian royalty | 1878-1944 | |
Soviet spies | Various | 1920s-1950s | |
Stalin, Joseph | Soviet politician | 1878-1953 | |
Suffragettes | UK pressure group | 1900s-1920s | |
Tojo, Hideki | Japanese politician | 1884-1948 | |
Trotsky, Leon | Soviet politician | 1879-1940 | |
UK fascist groups | Various | 1920s-1950s | |
UK strikers | Various | 1910s-1920s, 1940s | |
Yamashita, Tomoyuki | Japanese army leader | 1885-1946 | |
Zionist paramilitary groups | Paramilitaries in Palestine/Israel | 1920s-1940s |
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