Judging from their popularity in comics, graphic novels, and movies, young people love super heroes. Can they match the following countries with some of their super heroes?
_____A. Mahatma Gandhi launched a program of civil 1. Pakistan
disobedience that led to independence.
_____B. Bishop Desmond Tutu called for Western 2. Poland
nations to apply sanctions that led to an end
of apartheid, i.e. segregation of blacks into
separate homelands and other indignities.
_____C. Malala Yousafzai won a Nobel Peace Prize 3. Turkey
for urging all countries to educate their
girls and women.
_____D. Fidel Castro assembled a Communist 4. France
guerrilla band that caused the country's
corrupt dictator, Fulgencio Batista, to flee.
_____E. Dorothy Day was commended by Pope Frances 5. Myanmar/Burma
as a champion of workers and the poor.
_____F. Lech Walesa organized the Solidarity 6. Cuba
trade union that began the movement
that ousted the Soviet Union from Eastern
Europe.
_____G. Aung San Suu Kyi, known as "The Lady," 7. India
who received a Nobel Peace Prize for
keeping democracy alive in the face of a
military regime takeover.
_____H. Mao Zedang, leader of the "Long March" away 8. United States of America
from rivals, who returned to lead the country in
1949 and to try rapid economic development
through a program called the "Great Leap
Forward."
_____I. Mustafa Kemal, who took the name Kemal 9. South Africa
Ataturk and was elected president in 1923,
established the country as a secular republic
after hundreds of years as part of a Muslim
empire.
_____J. Charles de Gaulle led the country's 10. China
government-in-exile until World War II
ended and he could return to be elected
President.
Answers can be found at the end of the earlier post, "What Moscow Could Learn from History."
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