ap world history Flashcards

61974169	Jawaharial Nehru	India's first Prime Minister from 1947-64.	0
61974170	Ho Chi Minh	Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)	1
61974171	Gamal Abdel Nasser	He led the bloodless coup which toppled the monarchy of King Farouk and heralded a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism.	2
61974172	Kwame Nkrumah	founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident	3
61974173	Jomo Kenyatta	Leader of colonial opposition in Kenya	4
61974174	Deng Xiaoping	Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong. (p. 862)	5
61974175	Indira Gandhi	Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. She was also prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977.	6
61974176	Anwar Sadat	Egyptian president who made peace with Israel	7
61974177	Yasser Arafat	Palestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)	8
61974178	Ayatollah Khomeini	Iranian religious leader of the Shiites	9
61974179	Saddam Hussein	Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran	10
61974180	Juan Peron	Argentine military and political leader: president 1946-55, 1973-74.	11
61974181	Jimmy Carter	39th President of the United States (1924-)	12
61974182	Nelson Mandela	South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)	13
61974183	Decolonization	the action of changing from colonial to independent status	14
61974184	Bandung Conference	as a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent	15
61974185	Balfour Declaration	British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI	16
61974186	Suez Crisis	Canal in Egypt, passage from Red Sea to Mediterranean; owned by England and France but Egypt wanted the land back; led to a war; US wanted to help Egypt get the land back but couldn't go against the Allies	17
61974187	Kikuyu	dominant native tribe in Kenya	18
61974188	Great Leap Forward	a five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes	19
61974189	Cultural Revolution	a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard	20
61974190	Tiananmen Square	Chinese citizens want political reform and stood their ground at Tiananmen Square.	21
61974191	Palestine Liberation Organization	a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine	22
61974192	Islamism	the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life	23
61974193	Jihad	a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels	24
61974194	Institutional Revolutionary Party	Mexican political party in power for 70 years	25
61974195	Sandinistas	anti-American revolutionaries in Nicaragua	26
61974196	Liberation Theology	a Catholic Church crusade for social justice and an end to poverty in Latin America	27
61974197	Dependency Theory	a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones	28
61974198	Organization of African Unity	Promotes unity of African states, eradicate colonialism- 53 states are members	29
61974199	Apartheid	Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.	30
61974200	African National Congress	an organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa.	31