History Figures Quiz

Famous Leaders and Their Speeches

• Nelson Mandela spoke during the 1964 trial speech in Apartheid South Africa
• Mahatma Gandhi spoke at the "Quit India" movement in 1942
• Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the "Inaugural Address" in 1933 and discussed critical issues directly with the American people during the Great Depression and WWII
• Pericles spoke at the "Funeral Oration" in 431 BC
• Adolf Hitler delivered the "Germany Declares War on USA" speech in 1941 and led the Nazis during the Second World War
• John F. Kennedy delivered the "Inaugural Address" in 1961
• Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the iconic speech "I Have A Dream" and is considered an icon of the civil rights movement
• Winston Churchill delivered the "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech in 1940 and overcame his fear of public speaking through dedicated practice
• Margaret Thatcher is known as "The Iron Lady" and was Britain's first female Prime Minister
• Abraham Lincoln delivered the "Gettysburg Address" in 1863
• Patrick Henry spoke at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775
• Alexander the Great delivered the "Campaign into India" speech in 326 BC
• Ronald Reagan is famously dubbed "The Great Communicator"
• Marcus Tullius Cicero translated Greek rhetoric into Latin