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6427492794Abdul Ghaffar KhanFounder of the Khudai Khidmatgar or "Servants of God" movement (1890-1988) in the Northwest Frontier Province of colonial India, he advocated throughout his life nonviolent social and political reform based on Islamic principles0
6427492795African National CongressSouth African political party established in 1912 by elite Africans who sought the win full acceptance in colonial society; it only gradually became a popular movement that came to the control of the government in 19941
6427492796African UnionFederation of 53 African countries who work together to deal with social, political, economic, and military problems in Africa2
6427492797Amritsar MassacreAn incident in which British troops killed hundreds of innocent Indian civilians for ignoring a British law that banned public meetings3
6427492798ApartheidPolicy of strict racial separation in South Africa; abolished slavery in 19894
6427492799Ataturk, Mustafa KemalFounder and first president of the Republic of Turkey (1881-1938); as military commander and leader of the Turkish national movement, he made Turkey into a secular state5
6427492800AtrocityBrutal act committed against innocent people6
6427492801Black ConsciousnessSouth African movement that sought to foster pride, unity, and political awareness among the country's African majority and often resorted to violent protest against the white minority rule7
6427492802BoersAlso known as Afrikaners, the sector of the white population of South Africa that descended from early Dutch settlers8
6427492803DecolonizationProcess in which many African and Asian states won their independence from Western colonial rule, in most cases by negotiated settlement with gradual political reforms and a program of investment rather than through military confrontation9
6427492804DeKlerk F.W.Was elected president of South Africa in 1989. He called for an end to the apartheid and freed Nelson Mandela in 199010
6427492805Democracy in Africaa subject of debate among scholars, the democracies established in the wake of decolonization in Africa proved to be fragile and often fell to military coups or were taken over by single-party authoritarian systems; Africa's initial rejection of democracy has sometimes been taken as a sign that Africans were not ready for democratic politics or that traditional African culture did not support it11
6427492806Economic DevelopmentA process of growth or increasing production and the distribution of the proceeds of that growth to raise living standards; nearly universal desire for economic development in the second half of the twentieth century reflected the central belief that poverty was no long inevitable12
6427492807Export-led industrializationA model for economic development that advocates specializing in the production of specific products for export13
6427492808Gandhi, Mohandas K.Usually referred to by his soubriquet "Mahatma" (Great Soul), Gandhi (1869-1948) was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Britain14
6427492809Import substitution industrializationa model for economic development that advocated for reducing an economy's independence on the uncertain15
6427492810Indian National CongressOrganization established in 1885 by Western-educated elite Indians in an effort to win a voice in the governance of India; over time, the INC became a major popular movement that won over India's independence from Great Britain16
6427492811Islamic FundamentalistsMuslims who strictly follow the teachings of the Koran and reject Western ideas17
6427492812Jinnah, Muhammad AliLeader of India's All-India Muslim League and the first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan (1876-1948)18
6427492813Kenyatta, Jomoa nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya19
6427492814Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollahimportant Shia ayatollah (advanced scholar of Islamic law and religion) who became the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution and ruled Iran from 1979 until his death in 198920
6427492815Mandela, NelsonSouth African nationalist (b. 1918) and the leader of the African National Congress who was imprisoned for 27 years on charges of treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of South Africa; he was elected president of South Africa in 1994, four years after he was finally released from prison21
6427492816Muslim LeagueThe All-India League, created in 1906, was a response to the Indian National Congress in India's struggle for independence from Britain; the League's leader, Muhammad ALi Jinnah, argued that regions of India with a Muslim majority should form a separate state called Pakistan22
6427492817Nehru, Jawaharlalthe first prime minister of independent India (1889-1964)23
6427492818Nkrumah, Kwameworked to remove British Imperialists from Africa; became the prime minister of Ghana24
6427492819Pahlavi, Mohammad RezaBorn in 1919, Pahlavi was shah of Iran from 1941 until he was deposed and fled the country in 1979; he died in 198025
6427492820Pan-Africanismmovement emphasizing the unity of Africans and people of African descent all over the world26
6427492821SatyagrahaLiterally, "truth force;" Mahatma Gandhi's political philosophy, which advocated confrontational but nonviolent political action27
6427492822Sowetoimpoverished black neighborhood outside Johannesburg, South Africa, and the site of a violent uprising in 1976 in which hundreds were killed; the rebellion began a series of violent protests and strikes that helped end apartheid28
6427492823Theocracya government ruled by religious leaders29
6427492824Tutu, Desmondan anglican bishop who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid in South Africa30

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