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| 354515854 | Muslim League | In 1906 to advance the cause of Islamic Indians, it took years for momentum to build into an organized resistance to colonial power. | 0 | |
| 354515855 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Whose aim was to partition the subcontinent and form a separate Muslim nation in the northern region, where Islam had become the dominant religion. | 1 | |
| 354515856 | Gamal Nassser | In the Egyptian army, overthrew the king and established a republic. | 2 | |
| 354515857 | Algerians | Fought a bitter war for independence from France (1954-1962). | 3 | |
| 354515858 | Zimbabwe | Was among the last to establish African Majority rule in 1980. | 4 | |
| 354515859 | African Union | A political and economic confederation formed in 2001 to replace the Organization of African Unity. | 5 | |
| 354515860 | Juvenal Habyarimana | Unseated the government and eventually established a one-party republic in 1981., Hutu president whose plane was shot done and caused the wave of violence in the next three months. | 6 | |
| 354515861 | African National Congress | An organization determined to abolish apartheid. | 7 | |
| 354515862 | Nelson Mandela | Became the leader of the African National Congress. | 8 | |
| 354515863 | Union Of South Africa | Was formed by the combination of two British colonies and two Boer republics. | 9 | |
| 354515864 | David Ben-Gurion | The first prime minister of Israel, announced the official creation of the Jewish homeland on May 14,1948. | 10 | |
| 354515865 | Six Days War | Resulted in total victory for the Israelis who took control of the West Bank from Jordan. | 11 | |
| 354515866 | Yassir Arafat | The PLO leader who called for the destruction of Israel is | 12 | |
| 354515867 | Mahmoud Abbas | Quickly signed a cease-fire with Israel that effectively ended the intifada that began in 2000. | 13 | |
| 354515868 | President Carter | Of the United States visited Iran to congratulate it on its programs of modernization and westernization, the Islamic fundamentalists had enough. | 14 | |
| 354515869 | Reza Shah Pahlavi | Rose to power in 1925 by outsting the then-ruling shah, who had allowed Persia to fall under European spheres of influence. | 15 | |
| 354515870 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Elected president. | 16 | |
| 354515871 | Saddam Hussein | Because Iraq wanted to gain control of a greater percentage of the world's oil reserves. | 17 | |
| 354515872 | European Union | Was formed to give the United States some economic competition by banding Europe together in a single market. | 18 | |
| 354515873 | Taliban | An Islamic fundamentalist regime that captured the capital of Kabul in 1996. | 19 |