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| 358248786 | Bangladesh | formerly East Pakistan; after a civil war became independent in 1972. | 0 | |
| 358248787 | Saddam Hussein | military dictator of Iraq; fought a 10-year war with Iran; invaded Kuwait in 1990; defeated by an American-led coalition in the Gulf War of 1991. | 1 | |
| 358248788 | primary products | food or industrial crops with a high demand in industrialized economies; their prices tend to fluctuate widely. | 2 | |
| 358248789 | neocolonialism | continued dominance of new nations by their former rulers. | 3 | |
| 358248790 | Green Revolution | agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations. | 4 | |
| 358248791 | Muslim Brotherhood | Egyptian religious and nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; became an example for later fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world. | 5 | |
| 358248792 | Anwar Sadat | successor of Nasser as Egypt's ruler; dismantled Nasser's costly and failed programs; signed peace with Israel in 1973. | 6 | |
| 358248793 | Ayatollah Khomeini | religious leader of Iran following the 1979 revolution; worked for fundamentalist Islamic religious reform and elimination of Western influences. | 7 | |
| 358248794 | apartheid | Afrikaner policy of racial segregation in South Africa designed to create full economic, social, and political exploitation of African majority. | 8 | |
| 358248795 | homelands | areas in South Africa for residence of "tribal" African peoples; overpopulated and povertystricken. | 9 | |
| 358248796 | African National Congress (ANC) | South African political organization founded in 1912 to defend African interests; became the ruling political party after the 1994 elections. | 10 | |
| 358248797 | Nelson Mandela | ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South Africa in 1994 | 11 |
