Chapter 23 Independence and Development in the Global South, 1914 - Present
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| 9595022431 | Decolonization | 1914-Present : Process 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 confrontation | 0 | |
| 9595022432 | Indian National Congress | 1914-Present : Organization established in 1885 by Western-educated elite Indians in an effort to win a voice in governance of India; over time, the INC became a major popular movement that won India's independence from Britain | 1 | |
| 9595022433 | Mahatma Gandhi | 1914-Present : Usually referred to by his sobriquet "Mahatma" (Great Soul), Gandhi (1869-1948) was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive or independence from Great Britain | 2 | |
| 9595022434 | Satyagraha | 1914-Present : Literally, "truth force"; Mahatma Gandhi's political philosophy, which advocated confrontational but nonviolent political action | 3 | |
| 9595022435 | Muslim League | 1914-Present : The All-India Muslim League, created in 1906, was a response to the Indian national Congress in India's struggle for independance from Britain; the League's leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, argued that regions of India with a Muslim majority should form a separate state called Pakistan | 4 | |
| 9595022436 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | 1914-Present : LEader of India's All India Muslim League and first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan (1876-1948) | 5 | |
| 9595022437 | African National Congress | 1914-Present : South African political party established in 1912 by elite Africans who sought to win full acceptance in colonial society; it only gradually became a popular movement that came to control the government in 1994 | 6 | |
| 9595022438 | Nelson Mandela | 1914-Present : South African nationalist (b. 1918) and leader of the African National Congress who was imprisoned for twenty - seven years on charges of treason, sabotage and conspiracy to over through the apartheid government of South Africa; he was elected president of South Africa in 1994, four years after he was finally released from prison | 7 | |
| 9595022439 | Black Consciousness | 1914-Present : South African movement that sought to foster pride, unity and political awareness among the country's African majority and often resorted to violent protest against white minority rule | 8 | |
| 9595022440 | Soweto | 1914-Present : Impoverished black neighborhood outside Johannesburg, South Africa, and the site of a violent uprising in 1976 in which hundreds were killed; that rebellion began a series of violent protests and strikes that helped end apartheid | 9 | |
| 9595022443 | Kemal Ataturk | 1914-Present : Founder 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 state | 10 | |
| 9595022444 | Ayatollah Khomeini | 1914-Present : Important Shia ayattolah (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 1989 | 11 | |
| 9634101947 | Military government | Form of government when the military took over and ruled. Promised to establish democracy and give power to the people at some point in the future | 12 | |
| 9634101948 | Globalization of democracy | Social movement towards an institutional system of democracy. It would bypass all and give world citizens democratic access and a say in global activities | 13 | |
| 9634101949 | Import substitution and export-led industrialization | A trade and economic policy aiming to speed up industrialization process of a country by exporting good when the nation has a comparative advantage | 14 |
