AP World Chapter 34 Terms Flashcards

Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS

377330746	Bangladesh	formerly East Pakistan; after a civil war became independent in 1972	0
377330747	Baharatya Janata Party (BIP)	Hindu communalist party winning power in India in 1997	1
377330748	Baifra	eastern Nigerian region inhabited mostly by the Ibo people; in 1967 attempted unsuccessfully to secede from Nigeria; defeated and reintegrated in 1970	2
377330749	Indira Gandhi, Corazon Aquino, and Benazir Buhtto	women who became leaders of new nations; usually connected to preciously powerful men	3
377330750	neocolonialism	continued dominance of new nations by their former rulers	4
377330751	Green Revolution	agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations	5
377330752	Kwame Nkrumah	Ghanian leader at independence; his efforts at reform ended with the creation of dictatorial rule	6
377330753	Gamal Abdul Nasser	member of the Free Officers Movement that seized power in Egypt in a 952 military coup; became leader of Egypt; formed a state-directed reforming regime; ousted Britain from the Suez Canal in 1956; most reforms were unsuccessful	7
377330754	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
377330755	Anwar Sadat	successor of Nasser as Egypt's ruler; dismantled Nasser's costly and failed programs; signed peace with Israel in 1973	9
377330756	Jawaharlal Nehru	first leader of independent India; committed to programs of social reform, economic development, and preservation of civil liberties	10
377330757	Ayatollah Khomeini	religious leader of Iran following the 1979 revolution; worked for fundamentalist Islamic religious reform and eliminated of Western influences	11
377330758	African National Congress (ANC)	South African political organization founded in 1912 to defend African interests; became the ruling political party after the 1994 elections	12
377330759	Nelson Mandela	ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South African in 1994	13