Unit 6 Interactive Time Line

China (221 BC)

221

Type of government: Communist State
Current Leader: President Hu Jintao
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Japan (600 BC)

Jan 1, 660

Type of government: Parliamentary government with constitutional monarchy
Current Leader: Prime Minister Kan
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

United States

Jul 4, 1776

Type of government: Constitutional-based federal republic
Current Leader: President Obama
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Mexico

Sep 16, 1810

Type of government: Federal republic
Current leader: President Calderon
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Venezuela

Jul 5, 1811

Type of government: Federal Republic
Current Leader: President Chavez
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Cuba

May 20, 1902

Type of government: Communist
Current leader: General Raul Castro Ruz
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Taiwan

Oct 11, 1911

Type of government: Multiparty democracy
Current Leader: President Ma Ying-jeou
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Great Britain (1927)

Jan 1, 1927

Type of government: Constituional monarchy and Common Wealth realm
Current Leader: Prime Minister Cameron
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Saudi Arabia

Sep 23, 1932

Type of government: Monarchy
Current Leader: King and Prime Minister Abdallah
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Iraq

Oct 3, 1932

Type of government: Parliamentary democracy
Current Leader: President Talabani, Prime Minister Maliki
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

North Korea

Aug 15, 1945

Type of government: Communist state one-man dictatorship
Current Leader: Kim Jong Il
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial

Russia

Aug 21, 1991

Type of government: Federation
Current Leader: President Medvedev
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial