Ch 18 WH
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purpleteath94 on May 6, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Congress Party | Gandhi was the leader of this party, it led the Indian Indendence Movement. |
| Muslim League | organization formed by muslims in 1906 to protect their interests against British Rule. |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Leader of the Muslim League |
| Partition | the term given to the division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations. |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | independent India's first prime minister |
| Indira Gandhi | daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984) |
| Benazir Bhutto | Ali Bhutto's daughter, first female leader of an Islamic country, accused of corruptness, died recently |
| Ferdinand Marcos | former President turned dictator of the Philippines |
| Corazon Aquino | Elected in 1986, she was the first female president of the Philippines. |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | 1945 - Myanmar opposition leader who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991 for leading a pro-democracy movement in Myanmar (Burma) |
| Sukarno | Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970) |
| Suharto | Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921) |
| Negritude movement | movement thay encouraged Africans to value their heritage and it strengthen Pan - Africanism |
| Kwame Nkrumah | Worked to remove British imperialists from Africa; became the first Prime Minister of Ghana |
| Jomo Kenyatta | leader of the Kenyan nationalist |
| Ahmed Ben Bella | First prime minister of independent Algeria |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | the leaders or Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from its independence in the 1960s until 1997. He brought the country's business under national control, profited from the reogranization, and used the army to hold power |
| Anwar Sadat | Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981) |
| Golda Meir | First female prime minister of Isreal |
| PLO | a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine |
| Yasir Arafat | leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and his goal was the destruction of Israel |
| Camp David Accords | A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel |
| intifada | an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 |
| Oslo Peace Accords | An agreement in 1993 in which Israeli prime minister Rabin granted Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. |
| Transcaucasian Republics | Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia; lie in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas |
| Central Asian Republics | Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan; lie east of the Caspian Sea and extending to the Tian Shan and Pamir mountains |
| mujahideen | a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad |
| Taliban | a group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996 |
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