Global Studies
Name ____________________________________
Egyptian Presidents Matching
Watch this video: https://vimeo.com/150506936 and then match the statements with the correct Egyptian
presidents.
GN = Gamal Abdel Nasser
AS = Anwar Sadat
HM = Hosni Mubarak
MM = Mohammed Morsi
AFS = Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
1. ______ He took over in the 1950s following a military coup.
2. ______ He sided with the USSR used socialist policies.
3. ______ He nationalized (took over) the Suez Canal, which sparked the Suez Crisis.
4. ______ He is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who won the election after the Arab Spring.
5. ______ He faced calls for democracy from the left that erupted into the Arab Spring.
6. ______ He signed the Camp David Accords with Israel.
7. ______ He took over after Nasser.
8. ______ He was assassinated by Muslim extremists.
9. ______ His actions angered secular Muslims and Christian minorities.
10. ______ He took over after Sadat and cracked down on Muslim extremists.
11. ______ He died of a heart attack while in office.
12. ______ He took over after Morsi and cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood.
13. ______ He resigned during the Arab Spring and was imprisoned.
14. ______ He had good relations with the US and sent troops to fight in the Persian Gulf War.
15. ______ He took over after Mubarak.
16. ______ He promoted Pan-Arabism, unification of the Arab people.
17. ______ He was the first of these presidents.
18. ______ He declared a state of emergency that lasted 30 years.
19. ______ After a year in office, protests led him to being toppled by the military and imprisoned.
20. ______ He built the Aswan High Dam and the lake it created is named after him.
21. ______ He shifted to capitalism and sided with the US.
22. ______ He is the current authoritarian president who gained the presidency after a military coup.
Compare and contrast Iran, Turkey, and Egypt.
Iran
Turkey
Egypt