Different World Leaders

Today we went over the test about different religions. I got a 90%. Mr. Schick accidentally marked an answer wrong so we all got 3 more bonus points. I am so glad, because now I got a 93%. I still got a couple of those religion questions wrong. I wrote down the correct answers to I can use it to study. We also went over a PowerPoint about the twelve World Leaders that we are studying. I think that what we are learning about is very interesting. I think that it is very cool to learn about different leaders, and what they are like. Here are some of the notes about what we learned about in the PowerPoint.

Afghanistan/ Hamid Karzai:

• Is an Islamic republic headed by President Hamid Karzai
• Started as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime
• Can speak many languages
• Warned the US that the Taliban were connected to al Qaeda and that there was a plot to attack the USA, but no one listened to him

Brazil/ Dilma Rousseff

• Federal republic headed by her
• Repeatedly tortured
• Divorced twice
• Degree in economics
• Underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is in remission now

China/ Xi Jinping

• Communist state
• Son of revolutionart veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers
• Married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who was better known then her husband before he became president
• Has a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the USA

France/ Francois Hollande

• Republic headed by Francois Hollande
• For gay rights
• No previous experience in a national government position

Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany)

• graduated from University of Leizig in 1978 with degrees in
• Been Chancellor since November 2005
• Most Powerful Women in the World for eight of the past 10 years

India/ Pranab Mukherjee

• taught Science at the Vidiyanagar College
• Rated one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997
• Had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi, so he started his own party

Iran/ Khamenei and Ruhani

• Theocratic republic ruled by Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, and President Hassan Fereidun Ruhani
• Married to his cousin
• Khamenei: took a part in street protests against the US - backed Shah of Iran
• Khamenei was exiled and was imprisioned multiple times and in 1975 was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran

Hasan Fereidun/ Iran

• President of Iran
• Didn't like Ahmadinejad

Israel/ Peres and Netanyahu

• Parliamentary democracy
• headed by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
• Peres: Him and his family fled to Palestine in 1934
• Netanyahu: brother was killed, lived in USA

Mexico, Enrique Pieto

• Wanted to help fix drug problems
• Had affairs with other women
• "Nothing sticks to him"

Saudi Arabia/ Abdallah

• had 10 siblings
• 22 children
• Worth 21 billion dollars because of oil
• In this country, women can't drive
• Granted women the right to vote

*Leaders who tried to revolt against leaders: Khamenei, Dilma, Karzai, Pranab