TEST TIME

So here are some notes I have taken in the last few days for our test tomorrow: 

• He was a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.
• Speaks several
• Several times in 2001, he warned the US about the Taliban’s plan to attack, but we just ignored him

• She was in a resistance and served three years in prison, where she was tortured.
•  rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world, due to her degree in economics
• She survived cancer and also found a way to overcome sexism in a male dominate country.

• Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran who was a member from the Communist Party
• He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who was once an army general
• Sends his daughter to Harvard University

• Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.
• Had a serious relationship with Ségolène Royal, who is the mother of his 4 kids
• His father was an extreme-right physician and his mother was a progressive social worker.

• Has a degree in physics and physical chemistry also has a PhD in quantum chemistry
• Has been Chancellor since November 2005
• Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 10 years.

·        He taught Political Science and was a journalist before entering politics.

·        Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world and has a very good understanding of government.

·        Fought Rajiv Gandhi for the position after his mother was murdered and started his own party – Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress.

•  Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and also was exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran.

·        Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.  

·        Became Iran’s Supreme Leader in 1989.

·        Rouhani has been a deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.

·       Was elected president of Iran in June 2013

·       He has been calling out the previous president

·       Shimon Peres tried to escape Jewish persecution so his family fled to Palestine in 1934.

•  Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel
• Later he organized Israel's nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb.
• As Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli negotiations during peace talks with the Palestinians.  In the autumn of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

• Netanyahu has lived in the US before with his family

• After his brother Jonathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1976, under his command, Netanyahu returned to Israel and started to advocate international cooperation in fighting terrorism.

• He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, Both parents were quite boring
• called him the Teflon candidate because all the alligations against him don’t seem to mess with his career.

-        He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.

-        He is worth approximately 21 billion dollars.

-        He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king.

-        In November 2007, King Abdullah visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope.  In March 2008, he called for a “brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions.”

-        Is taking small steps to enter his country to the 20^th century, like giving women rights

• Attended many very highly educated preparatory schools

• His first child, Ivan, who is disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.

• Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years.

·        Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953.  Her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting.

• Nicolás Maduro Moros worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active in the early 1990s.
• Maduro was introduced to Hugo Chávez in 1992, after Chávez was imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for  Chávez's release. (Chávez was released in 1994 and won election to the presidency four years later.)
• After President Chávez won a third term in October 2012, he selected Maduro to serve as vice president. Maduro worked alongside the outspoken president, until his death
• The queen doesn’t really have much power anymore.