Bay of Pigs or Missile Crisis? If the first, all he did was ok Eisenhower's plan, and then quickly disowned it. If the second, then yes, he had a part to play in a singnificant part of history.
But only a part. Obviously, no Americn President can be UN influential, but there is a hell of a lot of cpmetition for a top 100 list, and it must be said, if he hadn;'t have been shot, he wouldn't rate on that list at all because most would have forogtten him.
My List (in no particular order):
Slightly more tha 100
Joseph Stalin
Vladamir Lenin
Adolf Hitler
Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenburg
Erwin Schrodinger
Paul Dirac
Louis DeBroglie
Mao Zedong
Mikhail Gorbochov
Niels Bohr
John F Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
Martin Luthor King
Inventor of the Transistor
John Logie Baird
Inventor of the casette tape
Inventor of the VHS
Inventor of the CD
Inventor of the DVD
Pablo Picasso
John Lennon
Elvis Pressley
Bob Dylan
Bob Geldoff
Andy Warhol
Claude Monet
Walt Disney
Mahatma Ghandi
Mohammed Ali/Cassius Clay
Bruce Lee
Che Guverra
Wilbur Wright
Orville Wright
Maralyn Monroe
Freddie Mercury
Michael Jackson
Inventor of the Jet Engine
Inventor of the fixed wing-aircraft
Thomas Eddison
Inventor of the vacuum cleaner
Mother Teresa
Akira Kurosawa
George Lucas
Senator McCarthy
Alexander Graham Bell
Richard M. Nixon
Winston Churchill
Margret Thatcher
Kaiser Willhelm II
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Pele (Edson Arantes)
Maradonna
T.S.Elliot
George Orwell
Inventer of Internet
Bill Gates
Inventor of Telephone
Yuri Gagarrin
Neil Armstrong
Inventor of the space shuttle
Stephen Hawking
Henry Kissinger
Issac Assimov
Friedrich Neitzche
Inventor of DOS
Saddam Hussain
Osama BIn-LAden
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum(Prince of Dubai)
Queen Victoria of england
Queen Elizabeth II of england
KIng George VI of england
King Edward VIII of england
Pol Pot
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Inventor of the automatic firearm
Emperor Hirihoto of Japan
Kim Jong-Il
Leon Trotski
Chiang Kai-shek
Sigmund Freud
Ho Chi Minh
Ronald Reagen
Fiddel Castro
Inventor of MP3
Inventor of Atari/spectrum/Sinclair
Dwight D. Eisennhower
Eva Peron
General Montgommery
Franklin Roosevelt
Paul von Hindenburg
Pope Pius XII
Hermann Goring
Heinrich Himmler
Heinz Guderian
Benito Mussolini
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
Charles de Gaulle
King Juan Carlos II
Francisco Franco
Harry. S. Truman
Erwin Rommel
Augusto Pinochet
Nicolae Ceausescu
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
And this is the most influencial of the 20th centuary. That is the poeple who had the most effect on the world, not just the people who were liked the most, but those who influenced the world, whether it be in politics, military, culture, technology, economics, philosophy, religion, art, law, society, entertainment, etc...
Originally posted by eleveninches
And this is the most influencial of the 20th centuary. That is the poeple who had the most effect on the world, not just the people who were liked the most, but those who influenced the world, whether it be in politics, military, culture, technology, economics, philosophy, religion, art, law, society, entertainment, etc...
thats an opinion...
everybody would have different lists...