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| 13703493998 | Kwame Nkrumah | founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first president | 0 | |
| 13703507914 | Jomo Kenyatta | A nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya | 1 | |
| 13703546838 | Organization of African Unity (OAU) | An organization started in 1963 by thirty-two newly independent African states and designed to prevent conflict that would lead to intervention by former colonial powers. | 2 | |
| 13703572391 | Apartheid | A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites. | 3 | |
| 13703601746 | Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) | 4 | |
| 13703741601 | Panama Canal Treaty | 1978 - Passed by President Carter, these called for the gradual return of the Panama Canal to the people and government of Panama. They provided for the transfer of canal ownership to Panama in 1999 and guaranteed its neutrality. | 5 | |
| 13703859218 | Zionism/Zionists | A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. | 6 | |
| 13703953668 | Gamal Nasser | Military leader of Egypt who rose to power, turned to socialism, modernized Egypt | 7 | |
| 13703979217 | Suez Canal Crisis (1956) | Egypt's dictator, Abdul Gamal Nasser, a former army officer who had led the coup that overthrew King Farouk, nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, and was attacked by British, French and Israeli forces. The U.S. intervened on behalf of Egypt. | 8 | |
| 13704022414 | FLN (National Liberation Front) | a political organization formed by the Vietcong in South Vietnam in 1960 to carry out an insurgent policy. | 9 | |
| 13704047198 | Answar Sadat | 1977 Egyptian president who initiated peace talks with israel- assassinated Camp David Peace Accords with Carter and Begin; assassinated in 1981 | 10 | |
| 13704082133 | Palestine Liberation Organization | a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine | 11 | |
| 13704112750 | Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) | Palestinian political leader who was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as the president of Palestine from 1994 to 2004. he was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until his death. | 12 | |
| 13704238016 | Shah Reza Pahlavi | became leader of Iran and he helped the country get rich. Many Iranians opposed; protests eventually caused him to flee the country in 1979. | 13 | |
| 13704266559 | Iranian Revolution | (1978-1979) a revolution against the shah of Iran led by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which resulted in Iran becoming an Islamic republic with Khomeini as its leader | 14 | |
| 13704316455 | Iran-Iraq War | The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22 1980 following a long history of border disputes and fears of Shia insurgency among Iraq's long suppressed Shia majority influenced by Iran's Islamic revolution. | 15 | |
| 13704361042 | Persian Gulf War | a war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders | 16 | |
| 13704385434 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) | 17 | |
| 13704418211 | Great Leap Forward | Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years. | 18 | |
| 13704449285 | national identity | A sense of belonging to a nation and a belief in its political aspirations | 19 | |
| 13704462370 | Bandung Conference (1955) | held in Bandung, Indonesia; height of Cold War; newly independent nations gathered and asked how to live in a world led by superpowers; one solution was staying unaligned | 20 | |
| 13704490381 | Green Revolution | Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations. | 21 |
