chp 34 test Flashcards
congress party
group consisting of mostly hindus that led a campaign for india’s independence
muhammad ali jinnah
leader of the muslim league
muslim league
group that led a campaign for india’s independence
partition
division of india into two nations
jawaharlal nehru
first prime minister of india
indira gandhi
daughter of nehru who followed him as prime minister
benazir bhutto
former prime minister of pakistan
ferdinand marcos
leader of the philippines who was elected but ruled as a dictator
corazón aquino
woman who defeated marcos in the elections of 1986
aung san suu kyi
daughter of aung san; winner of the nobel prize for her fight of democracy in burma
sukarno
leader of indonesian independence movement; first president of indonesia
suharto
leader who turned indonesia into a police state
negritude movement
african movement after world war II to celebrate african culture, heritage, values
kwame nkrumah
leader in the gold coast independence movement
jomo kenyatta
nationalist who help lead kenya to independence
mobutu sese seko
ruler who took control of the congo in 1965 and renamed it zaire
ahmed ben bella
leader of the FLN who became the first president and prime minister of algeria
anwar sadat
egyptian leader who signed. peace agreement with israel
golda meir
israeli prime minister at the time of the 1973 arab-israeli war
camp david accords
agreement in which egypt recognized israel as a nation and israel have the sinai peninsula back to egypt
oslo peace accords
agreement aimed at giving palestinians self-rule
PLO
plalestine liberation organization
yasir arafat
leader of the PLO
intifada
sustained rebellion by palestinians
transcaucasian republics
the nations of armenia, azerbaijan, and georgia
central asian republics
the nations of uzbekistan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, kazakhstan, and kyrgyzstan
mujahideen
a group that fought against the soviet-supported government in afghanistan
taliban
a conservative islamic group that controlled most of afghanistan from 1998 to 2001
