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| 6270387675 | Bahartya janata party | Hindu communalism party winning power in India in 1997 | 0 | |
| 6270387676 | Biafra | Eastern Nigerian inhabited mostly by the Ibo people; in 1967 attempted unsuccesfully to secede from Nigeria; defeated and reintegrated in 1970 | 1 | |
| 6270387677 | Saddam Hussein | Military dictator of Iraq; fought a 10-year war with Iran; invaded Kuwait in 1990; defeated by American-led coalition in the Gulf War of 1991 | 2 | |
| 6270387678 | Indira Gandhi, Corazon Aquino | Women who became leaders of ne nations; usually connected to previously powerful men. Gandhi assassinated in 1984, Bhutto assassinated in 2007, and Aquino alive currently and in retirement | 3 | |
| 6270387679 | Primary Products | food or industrial crops with a high demand in industrialized economies; their prices tend to fluctuate widely | 4 | |
| 6270387680 | Neocolonialism | Industrialized nations continued independence on the world economy | 5 | |
| 6270387681 | Green Revolution | agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations | 6 | |
| 6270387682 | Gamal Abdul Nasser | Member of the FRee Officers Movement that seized power in Egypt in a 1952 military coup; became leader of Egypt; formed a state-directed reforming regime; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal in 1956; most reforms were unsuccesful | 7 | |
| 6270387683 | 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 | 8 | |
| 6270387684 | Anwar Sadat | Successor of Nasser as Egypt ruler; disrupted Nasser unruly programs; signed peace treaty with Israel in 1973 | 9 | |
| 6270387685 | Jawaharlal Nehru | First ledaer of independent India; committed to programs of social reform, economic development, and preservation of civil liberties | 10 | |
| 6270387686 | Religious revivalism | an approach to religious belief and practice that stresses the literal interpretation of texts sacred to the religion in question and the application of ther precepts to all aspects of social life; increasingly associated with revivalist movements in a number of world religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism | 11 | |
| 6270387687 | Steve Biko | 1946-1977) An organizer of black consciousness movement in South Africa, in opposition to apartheid; murdered while in police custody | 12 | |
| 6270387688 | Bangladesh | Formerly East Pakistan; after a civil war became independent in 1972 | 13 | |
| 6270387689 | Ayatollah Khomeini | religious leader of Iran follwing the 1979 revolution; worked for fundamentalist Islamic religious reform and elimination of Western influences | 14 | |
| 6270387690 | Homelands | Areas in South Africa designated for ethnolinguistic Black African groups; tended to be overpopulated and poor | 15 | |
| 6270387691 | Apartheid | Social system established in South Africa that stressed the superiority of whites and helped the white maintain political and social dominance | 16 | |
| 6270387692 | African National Congress | African National Congress An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought equality. | 17 | |
| 6270387693 | Benazir Bhutto | Pakistani politician who was the chair of the PPP (Pakistan People's Party); served as PM from 1988-1990, 1993-1996 and was removed from her post both times for alleged charges of corruption which forces her to leave the country in 1996; returned in 2007 and was assassinated | 18 | |
| 6270387694 | Nelson Mandela | Long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress party; worked with the ANC leadership and F.W. De Klerk's supporters to dismantle the apartheid system from the mid 1980s onward; in 1994, became the first black prime minister of South Africa after the ANC won the first genuinely democratic elections in the country';s history | 19 | |
| 6270387695 | Kwame Nekrumah | Ghanaian leader at independence; his efforts at reform ended with the creation of dictatorial rule | 20 | |
| 6270387696 | Free Officers Movement | Military nationalist movement in Egypt founded in the 1930s; often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood; led coup to seize Egyptian government from Khedive in July 1952 | 21 | |
| 6270387697 | Hosni Mubarak | President of Egypt since 1981, succeeding Anwar Sadat and continuing his policies of cooperation with the West | 22 | |
| 6270387698 | Mullahs | Local mosque officials and prayer leaders within the Safavid Empire; agents of Safavid religious campaign to convert all of population to Shi'ism | 23 | |
| 6270387699 | Walter Sisulu | Black African leader who, along with Nelson Mandela, opposed apartheid system in South Africa | 24 | |
| 6270387700 | F.W. de Klerk | White south African prime minister in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Working with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, de Klerk helped to dismantle the apartheid system and opened the way for a democratically elected government that represented all South Africans for the first time | 25 |
