Historical Events and Figures #5

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Description	Answer
Former female prime minister of Pakistan	Benazir Bhutto
Head of government while Mao Zedong ruled China	Zhou Enlai
Leader of an Iranian revolution and first leader of the Republic of Iran	Ruhollah Khomeini
Largest naval battle in WWII between Japan and the United States	Battle of Leyte Gulf
Found father of the Republic of Turkey and its first leader	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Battle that ended the French influence and divided Vietnam	Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Egyptian president assassinated during a parade by Muslim extremists	Anwar Sadat
Military conflict that ended in Kenyan independence	Mau Mau Uprising
Autobiography of a woman at the turn of the 15th century	The Book of Margery Kempe
Revolt against the tyrannical rule of King Henry VIII	Pilgrimage of Grace

Description	Answer
German 18th century literature movement with writers such as Goethe	Sturm and Drang
English and Spanish war fought mostly in the Caribbean	War of Jenkins' Ear
Scottish philosopher who wrote about empiricism in "A Treatise of Human Nature"	David Hume
German philosopher who wrote "Critique of Pure Reason"	Immanuel Kant
Book by Horace Walpole regarded as the first Gothic novel	The Castle of Otranto
Treaties that ended the War for Spanish Sucession	Treaty of Utrecht
Man who led peasants' rebellions during the reign of Catherine the Great	Yemelyan Pugachev
Sociologist in the early 20th century who wrote about civil rights in "The Souls of Black Folk"	W. E. B. Du Bois
Co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farmworkers Association (UFA)	Dolores Huerta
Journalist recognized as the leader of the feminist movement	Gloria Steinem