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9710618282Jawaharial NehruIndia's first Prime Minister from 1947-64.0
9710618283Ho 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
9710618284Gamal 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
9710618285Kwame Nkrumahfounder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident3
9710618286Jomo KenyattaLeader of colonial opposition in Kenya4
9710618287Deng XiaopingCommunist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. (p. 862)5
9710618288Indira GandhiDaughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She was also prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977.6
9710618289Anwar SadatEgyptian president who made peace with Israel7
9710618290Yasser ArafatPalestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)8
9710618291Ayatollah KhomeiniIranian religious leader of the Shiites9
9710618292Saddam HusseinIraqi leader who waged war against Iran10
9710618293Juan PeronArgentine military and political leader: president 1946-55, 1973-74.11
9710618294Jimmy Carter39th President of the United States (1924-)12
9710618295Nelson MandelaSouth African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)13
9710618296Decolonizationthe action of changing from colonial to independent status14
9710618297Bandung Conferenceas a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent15
9710618298Balfour DeclarationBritish document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI16
9710618299Suez 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
9710618300Kikuyudominant native tribe in Kenya18
9710618301Great Leap Forwarda five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes19
9710618302Cultural Revolutiona radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard20
9710618303Tiananmen SquareChinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square.21
9710618304Palestine Liberation Organizationa political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine22
9710618305Islamismthe religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life23
9710618306Jihada holy war waged by Muslims against infidels24
9710618307Institutional Revolutionary PartyMexican political party in power for 70 years25
9710618308Sandinistasanti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua26
9710618309Liberation Theologya Catholic Church crusade for social justice and an end to poverty in Latin America27
9710618310Dependency Theorya model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones28
9710618311Organization of African UnityPromotes unity of African states, eradicate colonialism- 53 states are members29
9710618312ApartheidLaws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.30
9710618313African National Congressan organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa.31

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