Current Events Final Flashcards

Afghanistan

Ashraf Ghani Taliban Key cities:Kabul

Burma (Myanmar)

President Thein Sein VP: Ann San Su Kyui
constitution written against her children of
different background

Cambodia

Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Key cities: Phnom
Penh

China

President Xi Jinping Mao Zedong Key cities:
Shanghai

Cuba

Current leader Raul Castro Former PM Fidel Castro

Egypt

President Sisi Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) Key
cities: Cairo

India

Current: Modi Mohandas Gandhi (good guy) Key
cities: Mumbai, Kolkata

Iran

Current president: Rouhani Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
supreme leader (religious) Ahmadinejab: bad guy from
American perspective

Iraq

President: Fuad Masum Saddam Hussein not
related to 9/11 attacks or Al Quada
Kurds

Islamic State

Led by Abu Bakhr Al Bhagdadi
Really terrible terrorist group

Israel

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu PM
Key cities: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

Libya

Gaddafi (dead now, very odd guy)

Mexico

Nieto

Nigeria

Buhari
Boko Haram (Islamic extremist group in Nigeria; attacks on
Christian churches)

North Korea

Kim Jong Un
Key cities: pyongyang

Pakistan

Mamnoon Hussain
Key cities: Islamabad

Palestinian National Authority

Mahmoud Abbas Fatah & Hamas Key areas:
West Bank, Gaza

Russia

Vladamir Putin-current leader
Yeltsin
Khrushchev
Lenin
Stalin (really bad guy)

Rwanda

Paul Kagame (has visited CBU)
Interhamwe (Hutu, super bad guys)
Key Cities: Kigali

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah

South Africa

Current: Jacob Zuma Nelson Mandela ( really good
guy) Desmond Tutu (good guy) Key cities:
Johannesburg

North Sudan

Current: Omar al-Bashir (really bad guy) Janjaweed
(super bad guys) Key cities: Khartoum

South Sudan

President Salva Kiir(now embroiled in a civil war against
rival ethic group led by former VP Riek Machar) Key cities:
Juba

Somalia

No functioning government; UN peacekeepers trying their best
Al Shbaab- Islamic extremist group in Somalia Key
cities: Mogadishu

Syria

Bashir Assad (killing his own people and not complying with UN
ceasefire plan)
Key cities: Damascus, Aleppo

Uganda

Museveni Joseph Kone (Lord's Resistance Army LRA)
most wicked and evil man child soldiers
Idi Amin (dead bad guy)

United Kingdom

David Cameron Tony Blair-former PM Winston
Chrchill (hero of 20th century, "Never give up"

Venezuela

Hugo Chavez
Not a good guy, died in 2013

Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe (bad guy)

Mao

China Bad guy 50 million died under him
eliminates individuality

San su chi

Burma (Myanmar) constitution prevents her from being
president amendment against having foreign relatives

Netanyahu

israel known as Bibi leader of right wing
Likud party

Mandela

South Africa really good guy honorary title
Madiba

Xi xin ping

current chinese president "most powerful leader
in china" loves hollywood movies

ISIS

Islamic state in Iraq and syria terrible terrorist
group Sharia law

Pol Pot

Cambodia really bad guy genocide