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| 379016254 | 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 | |
| 379016255 | Black Consciousness | South African movement that sought to foster pride, unity, and political awareness among the country's African majority and often resorted to violent protest against white minority rule | 1 | |
| 379016256 | Boers | AKA Afrikaners, the sector of the white population of South Africa that was descended from early Dutch settlers | 2 | |
| 379016257 | Decolonization | Process in which many African and Asian states won their independence from Western colonial rule, in most cases by negotiated settlement with gradual political reforms and a program of investment rather than through military confrontation | 3 | |
| 379016258 | 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 | 4 | |
| 379016259 | Gandhi | Gandhi (1869-1948) was a political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive for the independence of Great Britain | 5 | |
| 379016260 | Indian National Congress | Organization established in 1885 by Western-educated 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 Britain | 6 | |
| 379016261 | Jinnah, Muhammad Ali | Leader of India's All-India Muslim League and first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan (1876-1948) | 7 | |
| 379016262 | Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla | Important Shia who became the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution and ruled Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989 | 8 | |
| 379016263 | Mandela, Nelson | South African nationalist and leader of the African National Congress who was imprisoned for 27 years, charged with treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of South Africa; he was elected president of South Africa, four years after he was finally released from prison | 9 | |
| 379016264 | Muslim League | The All-India Muslim League, created in 1906, was a response to the Indian National Congress in India's struggle for independence from Britain; the League's leader, argued that regions of India with a Muslim majority should form a separate state called Pakistan | 10 | |
| 379016265 | Nehru, Jawaharlal | The first prime minister of independent India | 11 | |
| 379016266 | Soweto | Impoverished black neighborhood outside of 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 | 12 |
