This is the term for a government run by religion/church.
What is a theocracy?
100
The president during the Iran hostage crisis.
Who was President Jimmy Carter?
200
The founder of Communist North Korea
Who is Kim Il-sung?
200
A term for government that has negative connotations.
What is regime?
200
Who is the current supreme leader of Iran?
Who is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
200
A form of government in which executive and legislative functions both reside in the same elected assembly, or parliament. Great Britian and Japan both have this from of government.
What is parliamentary governement?
200
This is a term for beliefs/principles.
What is a tenet?
300
Iranian leader who founded the first radical Islamic government in the world.
Who is the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
300
The forcible overthrow of a government.
What is a coup de etat?
300
Who is the current president of Iran?
Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
300
This was the police force utilized by the Shah in Iran to brutally impose his rule.
What was the Savak?
300
This is the term for a rigid/strict adherence to principles, and often characterized by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
What is fundamentalism?
400
The Iranian Shah who fled Iran in 1979 leaving the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to lead Iran.
Who is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
400
This is the term for the strict racial segreation in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
400
The prime minister who opposed the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was overthrown in a coup supported by the United States.
Who is Mohammad Mossadeq?
400
This is the term for a government that has complete control over every aspect of the lives of its citizens.
What is a totalitarian government?
400
A term for an Islamic religious scholar/leader. In Iran, these religious leaders help to enforce Islamic law.
What are mullahs?
500
The current president of China.
Who is Hu Jintao?
500
The imposition of trade restricions or the withholding of aid.
What are sanctions?
500
The current General Secretary of the CCP in China.
Who is Xi Jingping?
500
This is an edict or decree issued by an Islamic authority. The Ayatollah issued one of these against author Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses.
What is a fatwa?
500
This person was the son of the founder of Communist North Korea and is the father of the current leader of Communist North Korea.