Chapter 18

Question 1

Indian National political party

Answer 1

Congress Party

Question 2

Organization founded in 1906 in India to protect Muslim interests

Answer 2

Muslim League

Question 3

Leader of the Muslim League

Answer 3

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Question 4

The last viceroy of India

Answer 4

Lord Louis Mountbatten

Question 5

Dividing up

Answer 5

Partition

Question 6

Independent India’s first prime minister

Answer 6

Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 7

Nehru’s daughter, 1966 prime minister

Answer 7

Indira Gandhi

Question 8

Indira’s son, prime minster in 1984

Answer 8

Rajiv Gandhi

Question 9

Bhutto’s daughter, elected prime minister twice

Answer 9

Benazir Bhutto

Question 10

President of the Philippines in 1965

Answer 10

Ferdinand Marcos

Question 11

President of the Philippines in 1986

Answer 11

Corazón Aquino

Question 12

Burmese nationalists’ army was led by…

Answer 12

Aung San

Question 13

Daughter of Aung Son

Answer 13

Aung San Sun Kyi

Question 14

Leader of the Indonesian Independence Movement

Answer 14

Sukarno

Question 15

General of a group of junior army officers who attempted a coup

Answer 15

Suharto

Question 16

A movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values

Answer 16

Negritude Movement

Question 17

African leader of large nonviolent riots who organized strikes and boycotts. He was often imprisoned but his efforts were successful

Answer 17

Kwame Nkrumah

Question 18

Kenyan nationalist who became president of Kenya and worked to reunite the various ethnic and language groups

Answer 18

Jomo Kenyatta

Question 19

The Secret society made up of mostly Kikuyu farmers forced out of the highlands by the British

Answer 19

Mau Mau

Question 20

Coup led by an army office, Colonel Joseph Mobutu,later known as… (overthrew Lumumba, named country Zaire)

Answer 20

Mobutu Sese Seko

Question 21

National Liberal Front- an Algerian group that waged a guerrilla struggle for independence from France

Answer 21

FLN

Question 22

Leader of the FLN, Algeria’s prime minister and first president

Answer 22

Ahmed Ben Bella

Question 23

A statement that the British government supported the establishment of a Jewish National homeland in Palestine, made in a 1917 letter by British foreign secretary Sir Arthur Balfour

Answer 23

Balfour Declaration

Question 24

An international crisis that occurred after Egypt seized control of the Suez Canal

Answer 24

Suez crisis

Question 25

Brief 1967 conflict between Isrrael and several Arab states

Answer 25

Six-Days War

Question 26

Egyptian President who planned an attack on Yom Kippur

Answer 26

Anwar Sadat

Question 27

Israelí prime minister who launched a counter attack during 1973 war

Answer 27

Golda Meir

Question 28

1978 Israeli prime minister who met with U.S. president Carter

Answer 28

Menachem Begin

Question 29

The first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country

Answer 29

Camp David Accords

Question 30

1981 Egypt’s new leader after the assassination of Sadat

Answer 30

Hosni Mubarak

Question 31

Palestine Liberation Organization-organization dedicated to te establishment of an independent state for Palestinians in the Middle East

Answer 31

PLO

Question 32

What incident marked the beginning of the end of British rule in India?

Answer 32

The British massacre of unarmed Indians at Amritsar.

Question 33

What two nations emerged from the British colony of India in 1947? *ON THE TEST*

Answer 33

Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan

Question 34

Briefly explain the reason for the civil disorder in Sri Lanka.

Answer 34

A militant group of Tamils called for a separate Tamil nation. They began strong-armed resistance.

Question 35

What were some concerns the Filipinos had regarding the Bell Act?

Answer 35

They were worried that American businesses would exploit the resources and environment of the Philippines

Question 36

Who was Sukarno?

Answer 36

A leader of the Indonesian independence movement

Question 37

Why were Kwame Nkrumah’s politics criticized?

Answer 37

He was spending to much time on pan-African efforts and neglecting Economic problems in his own country

Question 38

Name two problems Zaire faced gaining independence?

Answer 38

Belgium didnt prepare them for independence, and the province containment tried to succeed

Question 39

Why was the policy of assimilation in Algeria hard to achieve? *ON THE TEST*

Answer 39

Assimilation was hard to achieve in Algeria because the colonists refused to share political power

Question 40

What was the Suez Crisis?

Answer 40

Egypt takes control of the Suez Canal, Israelis take the Canal, Isrrael withdraw them because of global pressure, Egypt regains control after

Question 41

What was the reaction to the Camp David Accords?

Answer 41

It enraged many Arab countries, because Egypt made peace with Israel