61974169 | Jawaharial Nehru | India's first Prime Minister from 1947-64. | 0 | |
61974170 | 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) | 1 | |
61974171 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | He led the bloodless coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and heralded a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism. | 2 | |
61974172 | Kwame Nkrumah | founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident | 3 | |
61974173 | Jomo Kenyatta | Leader of colonial opposition in Kenya | 4 | |
61974174 | Deng Xiaoping | Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. (p. 862) | 5 | |
61974175 | Indira Gandhi | Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She was also prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977. | 6 | |
61974176 | Anwar Sadat | Egyptian president who made peace with Israel | 7 | |
61974177 | Yasser Arafat | Palestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929) | 8 | |
61974178 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites | 9 | |
61974179 | Saddam Hussein | Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran | 10 | |
61974180 | Juan Peron | Argentine military and political leader: president 1946-55, 1973-74. | 11 | |
61974181 | Jimmy Carter | 39th President of the United States (1924-) | 12 | |
61974182 | Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) | 13 | |
61974183 | Decolonization | the action of changing from colonial to independent status | 14 | |
61974184 | Bandung Conference | as a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent | 15 | |
61974185 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI | 16 | |
61974186 | Suez Crisis | Canal in Egypt, passage from Red Sea to Mediterranean; owned by England and France but Egypt wanted the land back; led to a war; US wanted to help Egypt get the land back but couldn't go against the Allies | 17 | |
61974187 | Kikuyu | dominant native tribe in Kenya | 18 | |
61974188 | Great Leap Forward | a five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes | 19 | |
61974189 | Cultural Revolution | a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard | 20 | |
61974190 | Tiananmen Square | Chinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square. | 21 | |
61974191 | Palestine Liberation Organization | a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine | 22 | |
61974192 | Islamism | the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life | 23 | |
61974193 | Jihad | a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels | 24 | |
61974194 | Institutional Revolutionary Party | Mexican political party in power for 70 years | 25 | |
61974195 | Sandinistas | anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua | 26 | |
61974196 | Liberation Theology | a Catholic Church crusade for social justice and an end to poverty in Latin America | 27 | |
61974197 | Dependency Theory | a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones | 28 | |
61974198 | Organization of African Unity | Promotes unity of African states, eradicate colonialism- 53 states are members | 29 | |
61974199 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | 30 | |
61974200 | African National Congress | an organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa. | 31 |
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