Independence Movements and Recent Challenges

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• Leader of Indian Independence Movement
• Educated in England and worked for British government in South Africa
• Spread the ideas of civil disobedience and passive resistance
• Urged Indians to boycott
• Assassinated by Hindu extremist

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Mohandas Gandhi

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• Closer relationship with the Soviet Union
• Developed nuclear program
• Assassinated by one of her bodyguards

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Indira Gandhi

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• First prime minister of independent India
• Friend of Gandhi who supported western industrialization
• 1950 constitution sought to prohibit discrimination in castes

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms and forms its own allegiance and government

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Self-Determination

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Rigid rule that benefits the minority

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Apartheid

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South Africa’s first black president

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Nelson Mandela

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Israel prime minister who sought US brokers deal to end the war

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Golda Meir

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Violent struggle in Kenya under the rule of this person

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Jomo Kenyatta

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President of Egypt in 1956 that helped to force Great Britain out of Egypt and Sudan

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Jamal Abdul Nasser

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State created after WWII to create a homeland for Jewish people

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Israel

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A political party in India, formally the Indian National Congress, established in the late nineteenth century. It was the party of Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru

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Congress party

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One of the main political parties in Pakistan that was formed in 1906 in India to represent the rights of Indian Muslims; its demands from 1940 for an independent Muslim state led ultimately to the establishment of Pakistan.

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Muslim League

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Created after WWII to prevent any more major conflict

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United Nations