Chapter 34 Flashcards
Initials of the leading nationalist party in India.
INC
Leading Indian Islamic party founded in 1906.
Muslim League
Leader of Muslim India in the early 1900s.
Jinnah
One of two major religious groups in India before WW II.
Hindu
One of two major religious groups in India before WW II.
Muslim
This would partition into Muslim India after 1947.
Pakistan
This portion of India is still a divided issue in contemporary Indian/Pakistani politics today.
Kashmir
Father and first prime minister of India in 1947.
Nehru
Became leader of India in 1966 who later was gunned down by Sikh radicals. (first and last names)
Indira Gandhi
Both India and Pakistan have these types of weapons today.
Nuclear
Formerly known as East Pakistan, this province split from Pakistan to form a new county in 1971.
Bangladesh
Woman leader of Pakistan in the 1970s and again in the 1990s.
Bhutto
These people are rebels in Sri Lanka.
Tamils
Island nation off the southern coast of India.
Sri Lanka
This US territory gains its independence in 1947.
Philippines
He was the corrupt leader of the Philippines in the 1960s-1980s.
Marcos
This naval base in the Philippines was critical for US involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s.
Subic bay
This woman became the first female leader in Philippine history.
Aquino
This was a rebel Muslim group in the Philippines.
MNLF
Aung San Suu Kyi was the democracy advocate in this country in the 1980s-2000s.
Burma
World strategic Asian port with one of the world’s strongest economies in the 1990s.
Singapore
Former Dutch colony that gained its independence after world war II.
Indonesia
General Suharto led a military coup of this country in the 1960s.
Indonesia
This Indonesian province gained its independence in 2002.
East Timor
The Negritude Movement celebrated ____ culture, heritage, and values.
African
The first former British colony to achieve independence in sub-Saharan Africa was ____.
Ghana
First president of independent Kenya.
Kenyatta
Ahmed Ben Bella was the first president of this North African country.
Algeria
Mobutu Sese Seko was the army officer to gain control of this former Belgian colony.
Congo
Congo was formerly known as _____ in the 1960s-1990s.
Zaire
The communist MPLA attempted to control with county in the 1970s-2000s.
Angola
A great genocide occurred in the 1994 in this central African nation.
Rwanda
This is the Jewish state in the Middle East.
Israel
These people claim the right to the land of Israel.
Palestinians
This was a political movement to find a homeland for the Jewish people.
Zionist
This declaration called creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine while protecting the “rights of existing non-Jewish communities.”
Balfour
He announced the creation of Israel on May 14, 1948.
Gurion
Between the creation of Israel and 1973, Arab states invaded Israel ____ times.
Four
The 1956 Suez Crisis originated from the desire by Egypt to build a dam at ____.
Aswan
In 1967, Arabs attacked Israel in the _____ war which was a devastating loss for the Arabs.
Six day
Woman leader of Israel. (first and last name)
Golda Meir
Egyptian leader during the Yom Kippur War.
Sadat
Leader of the PLO in Palestine in the 1960s-1980s.
Arafat
The ______ Accords established a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1979.
Camp david
Palestinian uprisings in the 1980s-2000s.
Intifada
Benjamin Netanyahu was a leader of the is country.
Israel
Most holy city in all the middle east occupied by Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Jerusalem
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are collectively called the ______ Republics.
Central asian
This isolated country has struggled to remain independent for hundreds of years.
Afghanistan
The Mujahideen fought the _____ for nearly ten years in the 1980s in Afghanistan.
Soviets
Conservative Muslim group that fought against Soviets and the American Soldiers in Afghanistan for 30 years.
Taliban
Osama bin Ladin’s terrorist organization.
al Qaeda
Infamous terrorist attack on the United States in 2001.
September 11
