6217272337 | Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | Pakistan prime minister who helped Pakistan grow but decreased equality of other religions | 0 | |
6217273786 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Father of Benazir Bhutto who also served as prime minister of Pakistan | 1 | |
6217273787 | Benazir Bhutto | First female prime minister in Pakistan | 2 | |
6217275469 | Idi Amin | Ugandan dictator who killed many and abused human rights; promoted by the U.S. | 3 | |
6217275470 | Pol Pot | Led Khmer Rouge and ruled; caused massive genocide of 1/4th of Camodia's population | 4 | |
6217275471 | Jimmy Carter | US president who mediated the Camp David Accords | 5 | |
6217277008 | Menachem Begin | Prime Minister of Israel who signed the Camp David Accords | 6 | |
6217277009 | Anwar Sadat | President of Egypt who signed the Camp David Accords | 7 | |
6217279298 | Yasser Arafat | Leader of the PLO | 8 | |
6217279299 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Overthrew the king of Egypt and established a republic; second president; proponent of Pan-Arabism; policies blended Islam and socialism | 9 | |
6232667569 | Honsi Mubarak | Led Egypt as a corrupt and repressive government; overthrown | 10 | |
6427162413 | Shah Reza Khan | Shah of Iran; was invaded by Britain and Russia because flirted with Hitler | 11 | |
6232668781 | Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi | Son of Khan; ruler which the U.S. supported; ran an authoritarian and oppressive regime | 12 | |
6232668782 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Shia cleric who became Supreme Leader after the Iranian Revolution | 13 | |
6232668783 | Abdullah Gul | First Islamic president of Turkey | 14 | |
6232670664 | Kwame Nkrumah | First president of Ghana who took office in the newly established republic; promoted Pan-Africanism; claimed dictatorial power | 15 | |
6232670665 | Charles De Gaulle | French President who helped Algerian independence | 16 | |
6232670749 | Kofi Annan | Algerian who became UN Secretary General | 17 | |
6232671957 | Jomo Kenyatta | President of Kenya who advocated for independence who had served a prison term for supporting the Mau Mau | 18 | |
6232671958 | Daniel Moi | President of Kenya who led to increasing corruption | 19 | |
6232675771 | Muslim League | Political party in India led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah that wanted Pakistan | 20 | |
6232675772 | West Pakistan | West of India | 21 | |
6232675773 | East Pakistan | East of India | 22 | |
6232676927 | Bangladesh | East Pakistan; became an independent country due to major differences with West Pakistan | 23 | |
6232676928 | Kashmir | Border region fought over by Pakistan and India; mostly Muslim people, but Hindu leader | 24 | |
6232676929 | Khmer Rouge | Communist guerilla organization in Cambodia that overthrew the government | 25 | |
6232678503 | Palestinian Liberation Organization/ PLO | Wanted the return of occupied lands and the creation of an independent nation of Palestine | 26 | |
6232679651 | Hamas and Fatah | Factions of Palestinians who fought for control | 27 | |
6232679653 | Arab League | League of 22 member states; Egypt was one of the 6 founding members | 28 | |
6232680963 | Iran | Descendant of the Persian and Safavid empires | 29 | |
6232682085 | Kurdistan Workers' Party/ PKK | Terrorist organization who began armed struggles against the Turks to win cultural and political rights | 30 | |
6232682086 | Gold Coast | British colony that became Ghana | 31 | |
6232684187 | Organization of African Unity/ OAU | Founded by Nkrumah; Pan-Africanism | 32 | |
6232684188 | African Union | Replaced the OAU; 53 nations; shared hopes for closer coorperation, but they disagreed one where or whether the organization should intervene in the affairs of member states | 33 | |
6232685274 | National Liberation Front/ FLN | Used effective guerrilla techniques to take out French forces; led Algeria | 34 | |
6232685275 | Kenya | Country in east Africa; was British colony | 35 | |
6232685276 | Mau Mau | Group that carried out terror campaigns in Kenya against the British | 36 | |
6232687625 | Kenyan African National Union/ KANU | One political party of Kenya | 37 | |
6232687626 | Nigeria | Western African country that was a British colony | 38 | |
6232687627 | Partition | Division of India into India and Pakistan; chaotic and violent; many Muslims and Hindus migrated | 39 | |
6232688933 | Balfour Declaration | Issue by the British government which gave Palestine to Jews | 40 | |
6232688934 | Suez Crisis | Conflict between Egypt and the UN wanting the Suez Canal; Egypt's or national waterway (wins) | 41 | |
6232690185 | Camp David Accords | Peace agreement between Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and Pesident Anwar Sadat of Egypt | 42 | |
6232691848 | One-Party State | Country with only one political party in charge | 43 | |
6232691849 | Algerian War for Independence | Campaign for independence against France | 44 | |
6232693435 | Fifth Republic | French President Charles De Gaulle helped give Algeria freedom under | 45 | |
6232693436 | Algerian Civil War | Bloody war under the FLN; 1991-2002; military state of emergency | 46 | |
6232694543 | Biafra Civil War | Nigerian Civil War with Igbos wanting to secede | 47 | |
6232694544 | Passive Resistance | Nonviolent protests through civil disobedience; practiced by Gandhi and inspired MLK and Nelson Mandela | 48 | |
6232696356 | Zionist Movement | Movement for a Jewish state | 49 | |
6232696357 | Theodore Herzl | Led the Zionist Movement | 50 | |
6232698650 | Pan-Arabism | Movement promoting the cultural and political unity of Arab nations | 51 | |
6232698651 | Pan-Africanism | Celebration of unity of culture and ideas throughout Africa | 52 | |
6232698652 | Igbos | Westernized, predominately Christian tribe in Algeria who wanted to secede from the government | 53 | |
6232698653 | Mullahs | Men educated in Islamic law who he'd most official posts in Iran | 54 | |
6232699883 | Theocracy | Form of government in which religion is the supreme authority | 55 | |
6232699884 | Kurds | Ethnic minority living in Eastern Turkey and parts of Syria, Iraq, and Iran; PKK began an armed struggle against Turks | 56 | |
6232699885 | Modernization/ Dependency Theory | Former colonies were victims of the international marketplace and are therefore reliant on their past mother countries | 57 | |
6232701238 | Metropoles | Large cities in the home country | 58 | |
6232701239 | Niger River Delta | Oil-rich southeastern land that the Igbos had in Nigeria | 59 | |
6232701240 | Nationalized | State enterprises | 60 | |
6232703275 | International Monetary Fund/ IMF | Threatened to withdraw loans from Kenya if the corruption continued | 61 | |
6232703276 | Corporatist | Ruling party claimed favors | 62 | |
6232703277 | PEMEX | Oil company nationalized by the Mexican government | 63 | |
6232703307 | NAFTA | Encouraged free trade between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada by putting maquiladoras in Mexico | 64 | |
6232705232 | Maquiladoras | Factories | 65 | |
6232707104 | Drug Cartels | Large criminal organizations engaged in drug trafficking | 66 | |
6232708609 | Institutional Revolutionary Party/ PRI | Strong political party in Mexico | 67 | |
6232708610 | Globalization | Force of world unity | 68 |
AP World History- Unit 6 Decolonization Flashcards
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