Answer:
B. the oldest constitution still in use in the world
Explanation:
Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government.
<u>Here are your correct matches, with a few bits of added info</u>:
1. First president to visit Communist China = Richard Nixon
- <em>This was a lasting foreign policy initiative, starting friendly relations between the US and The People's Republic of China</em>
2. Egyptian leader = Anwar el-Sadat
3. Israeli leader = Menachem Begin
- <em>Sadat and Begin signed a peace treaty between their countries.</em>
4. deposed Shah of Iran = Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
5. Soviet leader visited by Nixon in 1972 = Leonid Brezhnev
6. Nixon's Vice President = Spiro Agnew
- <em>Agnew was the Vice-President until he resigned for tax evasion. He was replaced by Gerald Ford</em>
7. leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran = Ayatollah Khomeini
8. fired by President Nixon Archibald Cox
- <em>Cox was Special Prosecutor in the Watergate investigation. Firing Cox did not solve that crisis for Nixon. Leon Jaworski was appointed to replace Cox, and the investigation continued.</em>
Because they all wanted to be free from taxes from britain
To defend its nation against threats from an aggressor nation
