He took Ethiopia into the League of Nations and introduced a Parliament. He was driven out by the Italian occupation of 1936-41; he led the reconquest with British aid. The famine of 1974 and an armed mutiny provoked a revolution which deposed him.

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Henry IV
1553-1610
King of France




Henry IV emerged as Protestant leader in the French wars of religion, and was excommunicated.

In order to pacify the nation Henry converted to the Catholic faith uttering the words: 'Paris is well worth a mass'. After his coronation the new king drove the Spaniards out of Paris declaring war on the Spanish king, Philip II.

In 1598 he promulgated the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Protestants their religious and political freedom.

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1537-97
Japanese Conqueror



Japan's most brilliant commander who broke the reign of the Daimyo.

By 1590 he had conquered the whole of Japan. Then he decided to conquer the world, which for him meant the conquest of China.

In 1592 he invaded Korea, his passage to China. His armies overran almost all of Korea, but were stopped when they met the armies of China, which had come to the aid of its Korean satellite.

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Hirohito
1901-89
Emperor of Japan




The first Japanese crown prince to travel abroad.

In 1926 he became the 124th successor to the legendary first emperor Jimmu and served as a sacred symbol for the Japanese nation until 1945 when he ended centuries of public imperial silence to broadcast Japan's surrender to the Americans. He then became a constitutional monarch with restricted powers.

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Ho Chi-Minh 1890-1969
President of Vietnam




Founder of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1930. He escaped to Moscow in 1932 but returned to Vietnam in 1940, where he fought the Japanese invaders.

Ho emerged as leader of the Viet Minh guerillas and declared Vietnam independence in 1945. He was elected President of Vietnam but the French colonial troops regained power in 1946.

He played a dominant role in the independence war against France (1946-52) and the war against the United States from 1959 until his death.

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