greatest man of the 20th century?

Answer 1

Winston churchill or FDR!!!!

Answer 2

Vladimir Illyich Lenin.

Right or wrong, he had the greatest effect on history in the 20th century. We are still experiencing these effects to this day.

Without Lenin, you wouldn't have:

1. The October Revolution, or at least a very different outcome (obviously).

2. The rise of Nazism (which exploited fears of Red revolution).

3. The Ukrainian famine and the Gulag Archipelago (Stalin was an underling of Lenin's)

4. The same outcome to WWII, or maybe no war at all (most of the war was fought between Germany and the USSR, and the USSR assisted Maoist rebels in China).

5. The Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and NATO (see #4).

6. The European Coal and Steel Community, source of the modern EU (see #4).

7. The Maoist revolution in China (see #4).

8. The Vietnam conflict (see #7, plus support from the USSR).

9. McCarthyism in America (no Red Menace without Lenin).

10. The Cold War (see #1).

11. The Cuban Missile Crisis (see #10).

12. The Kennedy Assassination (maybe).

13. President Reagan (see #10)

14. The development of neoconservatism and supply-side economics in America (see #13).

15. No 9/11, War on Terror, Iranian Revolution, or War in Iraq (arguably, all had roots in American involvement in the Middle East to blunt Soviet influence in the region).

I could go on even longer, but you get the idea. Lenin, hands down.

Answer 3

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 4

Nelson Mandela

Answer 5

Albert Einstein

Answer 6

That's a tough one.

I'd have to say Einstein because he, indirectly, influenced to many aspects of our lives, not just science.

However, I could make a case for FDR, George Patton, Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, and others.

Answer 7

That's a long time.

Either Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, or John Wayne.

Answer 8

I would go with Mahatma Gandhi. By defeating British rule with nonviolence, he showed that the human race had not entirely gone the way of cynicism and violence.

Answer 9

George aWol Bush

Answer 10

Malcolm X

Answer 11

Tim Curry IMHO