I remember this. The answer is secondary.
This statement is a true statement. Mikhail Gorbachev was indeed the eighth leader and definitely the last leader of the Soviet union (which is now called Russia.) When the party was dissolved he served as the General Secretary of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991.
France controlled North Africa but before the British the ottoman empire controlled the Suez canal
ww2 lasted so long because japn did not want to surrender and the bombing of pearl habor which caused the us who was not involved in the war to get involved and this is what caused the war to last so long.
