Strayer Ways of teh World Chapter 23 vocab
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| 381253598 | African National Congress | 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 | 0 | |
| 381253599 | Kustafa Kemal Ataturk | Founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey; as military commander and leader of the Turkish national movement, he made Turkey into a secular state. | 1 | |
| 381253600 | Black Consciousness | South African movement that sought to foster pride, unity, and political awareness among the country's African Majority and often restored to violent protest against white minority rule. | 2 | |
| 381253601 | Beors | Also known as Afrikaners. the sector of the white population of South Africa that was descended from early Dutchsettlers | 3 | |
| 381253602 | Decolonization | Process in which many Africans and Asian states won their independence from Western colonial ruler in most cases by negotiated settlement with gradual political reforms and a program of investment rather than through military confrontation. | 4 | |
| 381253603 | Democracy in Africa | A subject of debate among scholars, the democracies established in the wake of decolonization in Africa proved to be fragile and often fell to military coups or were taken over by single-party authoritarian systems; Africa's initial rejection of democracy has sometimes been taken as a sign that Africas were not ready for democratic politics or that traditional african culture did not support it | 5 | |
| 381253604 | Economic development | A process of growth or increasing production and the distribution of the proceeds of that growth to raise living standards; nearly universal desire for economic development in the second half of the 20th century reflected a central belief that poverty was no longer inevitable | 6 | |
| 381253605 | Gandhi | Was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Gritian | 7 | |
| 381253606 | Indian National Congress | Organization established in 1885 by Western-aducated elite Indians in an effort to win a voice in the governance of India; over time, the INC became a major popular movement that won India's independence from Britian. | 8 | |
| 381253607 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Leader of India's All-India Muslim League and first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan | 9 | |
| 381253608 | 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 | 10 | |
| 381253609 | Nelson Mandela | South African nationalist and leader of the African national Congress who was imprisoned for Twenty-seven years on charges of treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of South Africa; he was elected president of South Africa in 1994, four years after he was finally released from prison | 11 | |
| 381253610 | Muslim League | Created in 1906, was a response to the Indian National Congress in India's struggle for independence from Britian; the leagues' leader, Muhammad ali Jinnah, argued that regions of India with a Muslim Majority should form a separate state called Pakistan | 12 | |
| 381253611 | Jawaharlal | The first prime minister of independent India | 13 | |
| 381253612 | Muhammad 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 | 14 | |
| 381253613 | satyagraha | Literally "truth force"; mahatma Gandhi's political philosophy, which advocated confrontational but nonviolent political action | 15 | |
| 381253614 | Soweto | Impoverished black neghborhood outside Johannesburg, South africa, and the site of a violent uprising in 1976 in which hundred were killed; that rebellion began a series of violent protests and strikes that helped end apartheid | 16 |
