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11443142241Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated byNathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist0
11443142242Both Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru feeling on communalismOpposed it and rather urged all Indians to act and feel as one nation1
11443142243Muhmmad Ali JinnahLeader of the Muslim league who called for the creation of Pakistan2
11443142244"The only solution to India's problem is Pakistan" Who said this and what does it meanJinnah; Call for a partition to create Pakistan3
11443142245How many died and who was fighting at the Great Calcutta Killing in a confrontation6,000; Muslims vs Hindus4
11443142246What would cause the flow of "rivers of blood"The division of India to create Pakistan5
11443142247The Bandung Conference- what was it, what happenedAfrican and Asian leaders discussed non-allignment6
11443142248Who was NehruA Congress Party leader who promoted communalism and non-allignment7
11443142249Leader of North VietnamHo Chi Minh8
11443142250What was the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence modeled onU.S. Declaration of Independence9
11443142251The disastrous 1954 defeat that forced the French out of Vietnam was atDienbienphu10
11443142252Ngo Dinh Diem wasThe first president of the Republic of Vietnam11
11443142253In 1965, the U.S. president that ordered a bombing campaign against North VietnamLyndon Johnson12
11443142254The mandate power in Palestine after WWIBritain13
11443142255Balfour Declaration of 1917British government committed to support a homeland for the Jews in Palestine14
11443142256In 1947, the UN proposed that Palestine shouldDivide into a Jewish and Arab state15
11443142257Gamal Abdel Nasser's internationalist position was most similar to that ofNehru16
11443142258The leader of the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s wasGamal Abdel Nasser17
11443142259The Suez Canal crisis of 1956Tore the fabric of the cold war world as Nasser nationalized the canal and refused multinational control; Strengthened Nasser's authority18
11443142260The English and French were forced to withdraw from controlling the Suez Canal during the crisis in 1956 becauseThe U.S. and Soviet Union were opposed to it19
11443142261"The Year of Africa" refers to1960 when multiple colonies gained independence20
11443142262After a long and bloody conflict, the Algerians gained their independence in 1962 fromFrance21
11443142263In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz FanonUrged violence against colonial oppressors to overcome racist degregation22
11443142264The revived interest in African traditions, cultures, poets, and writers was known asNegritude23
11443142265The leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence, and the most important nationalist leader in Africa, wasKwame Kkrumah24
11443142266The Mau Mau uprising was an attempt to free Kenya from control by theBritish25
11443142267Jomo Kenyatta was a nationalist leader inKenya26
11443142268The disastrous Great Leap Forward was backed byMao Zedong; Sparrows who were blamed27
11443142269Deng XiaopingSuccessor to Mao Zedong; Led "Deng's revolution" for Chinese recovery; Initiated China's entry into the international financial and trading system28
11443142270The Indian leader who attempted to control the massive population growth in India by ordering involuntary sterilization wasIndira Gandhi29
11443142271In the 1970s, leading Islamic thinkers soughtReligious enforcement of Sharia Law30
11443142272The Egyptian leader who nationalized the Suez Canal wasGamal Abdel Nasser31
11443142273The desire for the reassertion of Islamic values in Muslim politics was at the heart ofSharia law; Islamism32
11443142274The U.S. backed government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in Iran was overthrown in 1979 byThe Islamic movement under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini33
11443142275From 1980 through 1988, Iran was involved in a bloody war withIraq34
11443142276What country has the Institutional Revolutionary Party ruled for much of the twentieth centuryMexico35
11443142277Juan Peron, a nationalistic militarist who was nonetheless popular with the poor, ruledArgentina as President36
11443142278Argentina, in the late 1970s and early 1980s,Took a dark turning point under military control with the creation of death squads that led to the "disappearance" of many37
11443142279The U.S.-backed Somoza family ruled what country for more than forty yearsNicaragua38
11443142280The group that was able to take control of Nicaragua in 1976, after its guerilla operations against the ruling government, was known as theSandinistas39
11443142281The situation wherein national boundaries were artificial conveniences that did not correspond to economic or ethnic divisions was most common inAfrica40
11443142282In 1948, the system of apartheid was put into place by the Afrikaner National Party in what countrySouth Africa41
11443142283The leader of the African National Congress wasNelson Mandela42
11443142284Sixty-nine black demonstrators were slaughtered in South Africa in the ________________ massacreSharpeville43

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