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| 59382081 | Blaise Diagne | Senegalese political leader. He was the first African elected to the French National Assembly. During World War I, in exchange for promises to give French citizenship to Senegalese, he helped recruit Africans to serve in the French army. (809) | 0 | |
| 59382082 | African National Congress | An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought equality (809) | 1 | |
| 59382083 | Haile Selassie | Emperor of Ethiopia (r. 1930-1974) and symbol of African independence. He fought the Italian invasion of his country in 1935 and regained his throne during World War II, when British forces expelled the Italians. He ruled Ethiopia as an autocrat. (809) | 2 | |
| 59382084 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. (p. 663) | 3 | |
| 59382085 | Bengal | Region of northeastern India. It was the first part of India to be conquered by the British in the eighteenth century and remained the political and economic center of British India throughout the nineteenth century.(812) | 4 | |
| 59382086 | Ghandi | non-violent resistence. British influence on India. Martin luther king picked up on this in the US. passive resistence --> thoreau. | 5 | |
| 59382087 | Nehru | Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule | 6 | |
| 59382088 | Muhammed Ali Jinnah | 1876 - 1948 Muslim nationalist and political leader who called for the formation of the separate Muslim state of Pakistan | 7 | |
| 59382089 | Emilio Zapata | a southern Mexican who led a peasant revolt, he understood the struggles of peasants as he, himself was one | 8 | |
| 59382090 | Pancho Villa | Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923) Did many good things, but killed a lot of people. Wanted to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. | 9 | |
| 59382091 | Lazaro Cardenas | President of Mexico (1934-1940). He brought major changes to Mexican life by distributing millions of acres of land to the peasants, bringing representatives of workers and farmers into the inner circles of politics, and nationalizing the oil industry 820 | 10 | |
| 59382092 | Hipolito Irigoyen | Argentine politician, president of Argentina from 1916-1922 and 1928-1930. The first president elected by universal male suffrage, he began his presidency as a reformer, but later became conservative. leader of the radical party | 11 | |
| 59382093 | Getulio Vargas | Dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Defeated in the presidential election of 1930, he overthrew the government and created Estado Novo ('New State'), a dictatorship that emphasized industrialization. (823) | 12 | |
| 59382094 | Juan Peron | President of Argentina (1946-1955, 1973-1974). As a military officer, he championed the rights of labor. Aided by his wife Eva Duarte Per?n, he was elected president in 1946. He built up Argentinean industry, became very popular among the urban poor. (823 | 13 | |
| 59382095 | Eva Peron | Wife of Juan Per?n and champion of the poor in Argentina. She was a gifted speaker and popular political leader who campaigned to improve the life of the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits. (p. 824) | 14 |
