Modern History Leaders Quiz

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Instructions: How well do you recall the leaders who shaped the 20th and 21st centuries?

1.
Which US president led the nation through most of the Great Depression and World War II?
A
Dwight Eisenhower
B
Franklin D. Roosevelt
C
Herbert Hoover
D
Harry Truman
2.
Which British Prime Minister led the country during World War II?
A
Neville Chamberlain
B
Anthony Eden
C
Clement Attlee
D
Winston Churchill
3.
Which leader unified Germany in 1990 as Chancellor?
A
Gerhard Schröder
B
Helmut Schmidt
C
Helmut Kohl
D
Willy Brandt
4.
Which Israeli Prime Minister signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO?
A
Golda Meir
B
Menachem Begin
C
Ariel Sharon
D
Yitzhak Rabin
5.
Which US president made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
A
Harry Truman
B
Douglas MacArthur
C
Franklin D. Roosevelt
D
Dwight Eisenhower
6.
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution and founded the People's Republic of China?
A
Mao Zedong
B
Sun Yat-sen
C
Deng Xiaoping
D
Chiang Kai-shek
7.
Which Soviet leader confronted JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A
Leonid Brezhnev
B
Nikita Khrushchev
C
Joseph Stalin
D
Mikhail Gorbachev
8.
Which US president opened diplomatic relations with Communist China in 1972?
A
Richard Nixon
B
Lyndon Johnson
C
Jimmy Carter
D
Gerald Ford
9.
Which Indian leader became the country's first female Prime Minister?
A
Indira Gandhi
B
Pratibha Patil
C
Sarojini Naidu
D
Sonia Gandhi
10.
Which leader ended apartheid and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela?
A
F.W. de Klerk
B
Desmond Tutu
C
Thabo Mbeki
D
P.W. Botha
11.
Which US president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963?
A
John F. Kennedy
B
Dwight Eisenhower
C
Richard Nixon
D
Lyndon Johnson
12.
Which Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender in World War II?
A
Emperor Akihito
B
Emperor Meiji
C
Emperor Taisho
D
Emperor Hirohito
13.
Which French leader established the Fifth Republic and served as its first president?
A
Charles de Gaulle
B
Georges Pompidou
C
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
D
François Mitterrand
14.
Which US president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A
Lyndon B. Johnson
B
Richard Nixon
C
John F. Kennedy
D
Dwight Eisenhower
15.
Which leader said 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' at the Berlin Wall?
A
Ronald Reagan
B
Jimmy Carter
C
George H.W. Bush
D
Richard Nixon

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