Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS
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| 377330746 | Bangladesh | formerly East Pakistan; after a civil war became independent in 1972 | 0 | |
| 377330747 | Baharatya Janata Party (BIP) | Hindu communalist party winning power in India in 1997 | 1 | |
| 377330748 | Baifra | eastern Nigerian region inhabited mostly by the Ibo people; in 1967 attempted unsuccessfully to secede from Nigeria; defeated and reintegrated in 1970 | 2 | |
| 377330749 | Indira Gandhi, Corazon Aquino, and Benazir Buhtto | women who became leaders of new nations; usually connected to preciously powerful men | 3 | |
| 377330750 | neocolonialism | continued dominance of new nations by their former rulers | 4 | |
| 377330751 | Green Revolution | agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations | 5 | |
| 377330752 | Kwame Nkrumah | Ghanian leader at independence; his efforts at reform ended with the creation of dictatorial rule | 6 | |
| 377330753 | Gamal Abdul Nasser | member of the Free Officers Movement that seized power in Egypt in a 952 military coup; became leader of Egypt; formed a state-directed reforming regime; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal in 1956; most reforms were unsuccessful | 7 | |
| 377330754 | Muslim Brotherhood | Egyptian religious and nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; became an example for later fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world | 8 | |
| 377330755 | Anwar Sadat | successor of Nasser as Egypt's ruler; dismantled Nasser's costly and failed programs; signed peace with Israel in 1973 | 9 | |
| 377330756 | Jawaharlal Nehru | first leader of independent India; committed to programs of social reform, economic development, and preservation of civil liberties | 10 | |
| 377330757 | Ayatollah Khomeini | religious leader of Iran following the 1979 revolution; worked for fundamentalist Islamic religious reform and eliminated of Western influences | 11 | |
| 377330758 | African National Congress (ANC) | South African political organization founded in 1912 to defend African interests; became the ruling political party after the 1994 elections | 12 | |
| 377330759 | Nelson Mandela | ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South African in 1994 | 13 |
