World History II SOI Review Part 1

The British Prime Minister known as the Iron Lady who helped develop close relationships between Britain and the United States was:

• Margaret Thatcher

• Theresa May

• Winston Churchill

• Tony Blair

The last leader of the Soviet Union who introduced reforms such as glasnost and perestroika was:

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Boris Yeltsin

The leader of Communist China after Mao Zedong who introduced foreign trade and economic restructuring was:

• Deng Xiaoping

• Zhou Enlai

• Jiang Zemin

• Hu Jintao

Who was the Israeli Prime Minister during the Six Day War and the Munich Olympics hostage crisis?

• Golda Meir

• Yitzhak Rabin

• Levi Eshkol

• Menachem Begin

Who was the President of the United States during the fall of the Berlin Wall, known for 'Reaganomics' and the Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA Star Wars)?

• Ronald Reagan

• George H. W. Bush

• Bill Clinton

• Jimmy Carter

Who was the leader of Kenya's independence movement, known for the violent struggle against Britain for freedom?

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Nelson Mandela

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Julius Nyerere

Who was the first African President of South Africa, jailed for 26 years for his fight against apartheid?

• Nelson Mandela

• Desmond Tutu

• Thabo Mbeki

• Jacob Zuma

The Egyptian president who called for the nationalization of the Suez Canal and looked to the Soviet Union for help in building the Aswan High Dam was:

• Anwar Sadat

• Hosni Mubarak

• Gamal Abdel Nasser

• Mohamed Morsi

The first Prime Minister of India was:

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Jawaharlal Nehru

• Indira Gandhi

• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

The leader of the Indian independence movement and a pioneer of non-violent tactics was:

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Jawaharlal Nehru

• Subhas Chandra Bose

• Bhagat Singh