Deck 3: Important Figures in Chinese and South African History

Question 1

.................... founded the People's Republic of China and was the primary leader of the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

A)Mao Zedong
B)Sun Yat-sen
C)Chiang
D)Lenin

Answer 1

Mao Zedong

Question 2

.................. led the communist revolution in China and fought against the Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War.

A)Chiang
B)Sun Yat-sen
C)Mao
D)Lenin

Answer 2

Mao

Question 3

.................. was born the son of a peasant farmer on December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China.

A)Sun Yat-sen
B)Mao
C)Chiang
D)Lenin

Answer 3

Mao

Question 4

After President Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, ...................took over the government and the Kuomintang.

A)Chiang Kai-shek
B)Mao
C)Sun Yat-sen
D)Lenin

Question 5

The retreat of the ..................from the Kuomintang army is called the Long March today.

A)Communists
B)Capitalists
C)Socialists
D)Sun Yat-sen

Question 6

........................ fled to the island of Taiwan.

A)Mao
B)Chiang Kai-shek
C)Sun Yat-sen
D)Stalin

Question 7

In 1958 ...................announced his plan to industrialize China. He called it the Great Leap Forward.

A)Mao
B)Sun Yat-sen
C)Chiang
D)Lenin

Question 8

In 1966 .......................made his comeback in the Cultural Revolution.

A)Mao
B)Sun Yat-sen
C)Chiang
D)Lenin

Question 9

.................ruled China until he died on September 9, 1976 from Parkinson's disease.

A)Mao
B)Sun Yat-sen
C)Chiang
D)Lenin

Question 10

Egypt became a British protectorate on 14th December.......................

A)1894
B)1897
C)1906
D)1914 .

Question 11

.........................., a former education minister, founded the Wafd Party, or the Egyptian Delegation Party, during First World War.

A)Saad Zaghlul
B)Lenin
C)Yasser Arafat
D)Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 12

.......................... led Egypt to secular independence in the 1950s and held the office of president from 1956 until his death in 1970.

A)Gamal Abdel Nasser
B)Saad Zaghlul
C)Lenin
D)Yasser Arafat

Question 13

................... was an army officer who led the military Junta that deposed Egypt's King Farouk in 1952.

A)Nasser
B)Saad Zaghlul
C)Lenin
D)Yasser Arafat

Question 14

By the end of 1954 ....................had replaced titular leader General Mohammed Neguib as president.

A)Nasser
B)Saad Zaghlul
C)Lenin
D)Yasser Arafat

Question 15

..................... is remembered for his ambitious attempt to modernize Egypt and create a secular Arab empire in northern Africa and the Middle East.

A)Nasser
B)Saad Zaghlul
C)Lenin
D)Yasser Arafat

Question 16

....................promoted the construction of the Aswan High Dam (completed the year he died) and challenged British, French and Israeli forces for control of the Suez Canal, nationalizing the canal in 1956.

A)Nasser
B)Saad Zaghlul
C)Anwar Sadat
D)Yasser Arafat

Question 17

In 1964 its leader, ....................., was sentenced to life in prison, and the leadership was forced into exile.

A)Nelson Mandela
B)Jacob Zuma
C)Kgalema Motlanthe
D)Saad Zaghlul

Question 18

Thabo Mbeki succeeded .................as head of the ANC in 1997 and as president of South Africa in 1999.

A)Mandela
B)Jacob Zuma
C)Kgalema Motlanthe
D)Saad Zaghlul

Question 19

..................... succeeded Motlanthe as South Africa's president in 2009.

A)Zuma
B)Nelson Mandela
C)Kgalema Motlanthe
D)Saad Zaghlul

Question 20

........................ was a civil rights leader in South Africa.

A)Nelson Mandela
B)Nasser
C)Anwar Sadat
D)Yasser Arafat

Question 21

................................ was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, South Africa.

A)Yasser Arafat
B)Nasser
C)Anwar Sadat
D)Nelson Mandela