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| 9655157333 | 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 | 0 | |
| 9655157334 | Spanish Flu 1919 | Global outbreak of a deadly type of flu. The movement of soldiers during WWI helped to spread the virus. 20-40% of people in the world are estimated to have become ill with the virus that attacked the young and healthy as well the weak. People sometimes felt fine in the morning and were dead by night. An estimated 675,000 people died in the U.S. and 50 million worldwide. | 1 | |
| 9655157335 | Mahatma Gandhi | was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive or independence from Great Britain | 2 | |
| 9655157336 | Satyagraha | "truth force"; Mahatma Gandhi's political philosophy, which advocated confrontational but nonviolent political action | 3 | |
| 9655157337 | Mahatma | "Great Soul" | 4 | |
| 9655157338 | Untouchables | member of the lowest-caste Hindu group or a person outside the caste system. Contact with untouchables is traditionally held to defile members of higher castes | 5 | |
| 9655157339 | Jawaharlal Nehru | first prime minister of independent India and was the spiritual leader of the Indian drive or independence from Great Britain | 6 | |
| 9655157340 | Congress Party | political party in India, formally the Indian National Congress, established in the late nineteenth century. It was the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. After India achieved independence from Britain in 1947, the Congress party dominated India's politics for two decades | 7 | |
| 9655157341 | Muslim League | 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 | 8 | |
| 9655157342 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | leader p of India's All India Muslim League and first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan | 9 | |
| 9655157343 | Boers | A.K.A. Afrikaners. the sector of the white population of South Africa that was descended from early Dutch settlers | 10 | |
| 9655157344 | Afrikaner | settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910 | 11 | |
| 9655157345 | Boer war 1899 | 'Second Boer War'----Great Britain defeated two Boer states in South Africa: the South African Republic and the Orange Free State | 12 | |
| 9655157346 | Apartheid | policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race | 13 | |
| 9655157347 | African National Congress | The 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 | 14 | |
| 9655157348 | Nelson Mandela | put in jail for 26 years and then became the first black president of South Africa, ANC supporter, was sent to jail for having connections and being part of the ANC was relased from jail when apartheid ended | 15 | |
| 9655157349 | Soweto | 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 | 16 | |
| 9655157350 | Black labor movement | Black workers formed coalitions to change unions from within. The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, for example, was founded in 1972 | 17 | |
| 9655157351 | Kwame Nkrumah | led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president | 18 | |
| 9655157352 | "Human capital" | the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community | 19 | |
| 9655157353 | Microloans | Provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries | 20 | |
| 9655157354 | Turkey | Turkey is a nation straddling eastern Europe and western Asia with cultural connections to ancient Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires | 21 | |
| 9655157355 | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | The 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 stat | 22 | |
| 9655157356 | Fez | city in north central Morocco; religious center | 23 | |
| 9655157357 | Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | Born in 1919, Was shah of Iran from 1941 until he was deposed and fled the country in 1979; he dies in 1980 | 24 | |
| 9655157358 | Bazaaris | name given to the merchants class and workers of bazaars, the traditional marketplaces of Iran | 25 | |
| 9655157359 | Ulama | body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology | 26 | |
| 9655157360 | Tehran | Capital of Iran | 27 | |
| 9655157361 | Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini | important Shia ayattolah who became the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution and ruled Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989 | 28 | |
| 9655157362 | Hijab | a head covering worn in public by some Muslim women | 29 | |
| 9655157363 | "Bad Hijab" | that the women are seen as not being properly veiled and covered | 30 | |
| 9655157364 | Revolutionary guards | Iran's most powerful security and military organization, responsible for the protection and survival of the regime | 31 | |
| 9655157365 | Secularized states | States purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligious | 32 | |
| 9655157366 | Saddam Hussein | President of Iraq from 1979 until overthrown by an American-led invasion in 2003. Waged war on Iran from 1980 to 1988. His invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was repulsed in the Persian Gulf War in 1991 | 33 |
