Died: June 28, 1914

He was prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha when he was elected prince of Bulgaria in 1887.

Died: April 30, 1918

The Bosnian-Serb who shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and set the wheels of world war in motion.

Princip was actually a south Slav nationalist; although ethnically a Bosnian Serb, he supported a group of activists calling for the unification of all local Slav people in Bosnia: Muslims, Croats and Serbs.

Died: January 21, 1924

Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917

His government won the Russian Civil War and consolidated power in a one-party state under the Communist Party.

Died: June 04, 1941

commander of Germany

Wilhelm was an intelligent child, but also possessed a violent temper

Nicholas made the disastrous decision to take direct command of the Russian armies

He was an autocratic but indecisive ruler and was devoted to his wife, Alexandra, who strongly influenced his rule

He inspired the French people and stopped at nothing until the war was won

Prime Minister of France during World War One

His engagements included meeting Allied heads of state, inspecting troops and visiting the wounded.

King George V of Great Britain and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on the one hand, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on the other

Churchill was serving as First Lord of the Admiralty

Churchill was awarded this coveted award not for defeating the Nazis, but for his writing.

Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.

After a brief law career, Wilson settled into an academic career that lasted until 1910. He was a professor at other schools, and then returned to Princeton, where he was named president in 1902.

commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Pershing graduated in 1886, 30th in a class of 77

He helped stop the lightning-fast German offensive in September, 1914, during the Battle of the Marne

Ferdinand Foch was a French military leader who served as supreme commander of the Allied armies during the final months of World War I.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories

He studied at Oxford University and in 1884 went to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.