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61974169Jawaharial NehruIndia's first Prime Minister from 1947-64.0
61974170Ho Chi MinhVietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)1
61974171Gamal Abdel NasserHe 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
61974172Kwame Nkrumahfounder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident3
61974173Jomo KenyattaLeader of colonial opposition in Kenya4
61974174Deng XiaopingCommunist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. (p. 862)5
61974175Indira GandhiDaughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She was also prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977.6
61974176Anwar SadatEgyptian president who made peace with Israel7
61974177Yasser ArafatPalestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)8
61974178Ayatollah KhomeiniIranian religious leader of the Shiites9
61974179Saddam HusseinIraqi leader who waged war against Iran10
61974180Juan PeronArgentine military and political leader: president 1946-55, 1973-74.11
61974181Jimmy Carter39th President of the United States (1924-)12
61974182Nelson MandelaSouth African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)13
61974183Decolonizationthe action of changing from colonial to independent status14
61974184Bandung Conferenceas a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent15
61974185Balfour DeclarationBritish document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI16
61974186Suez CrisisCanal 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 Allies17
61974187Kikuyudominant native tribe in Kenya18
61974188Great Leap Forwarda five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes19
61974189Cultural Revolutiona radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard20
61974190Tiananmen SquareChinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square.21
61974191Palestine Liberation Organizationa political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine22
61974192Islamismthe religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life23
61974193Jihada holy war waged by Muslims against infidels24
61974194Institutional Revolutionary PartyMexican political party in power for 70 years25
61974195Sandinistasanti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua26
61974196Liberation Theologya Catholic Church crusade for social justice and an end to poverty in Latin America27
61974197Dependency Theorya model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones28
61974198Organization of African UnityPromotes unity of African states, eradicate colonialism- 53 states are members29
61974199ApartheidLaws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.30
61974200African National Congressan organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa.31

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