Saddam Hussein assumed the Presidency of what party in 1979?

Saddam Hussein assumed the Presidency of what party in 1979?

• A. The Communist Party
• B. The Republican Party
• C. The Ba'th Party
• D. The Socialist Party

Answer: (C)

Saddam Hussein’s rise to power is tied to the Ba’th Party, a nationalist-socialist party that led Iraq after the 1968 coup. He climbed the ranks within the Iraqi regional branch of the Ba’th Party and, by 1979, was the party’s top leader as well as the country’s president. That means the party he assumed leadership of and governed with was the Ba’th Party. The other options don’t fit because he was not the leader of the Communist Party, the American Republican Party, or a generic Socialist Party in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein’s rise to power is tied to the Ba’th Party, a nationalist-socialist party that led Iraq after the 1968 coup. He climbed the ranks within the Iraqi regional branch of the Ba’th Party and, by 1979, was the party’s top leader as well as the country’s president. That means the party he assumed leadership of and governed with was the Ba’th Party. The other options don’t fit because he was not the leader of the Communist Party, the American Republican Party, or a generic Socialist Party in Iraq.