Unit 19 Vocab Flashcards
The Indian national congress political party
Congress party
An organization founded in 1906 in India to protect Muslim interests
Muslim league
The leader of the Muslim league
Muhammad ali Jinnah
The last viceroy of India
Lord Mountbatten
The dividing up of India into two nations
Partition
Independent India’s first prime minster
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehrus daughter who became the next prime minister
Indira gandhi
Indiras son who succeeded her
Rajiv gandhi
Zias daughter who was elected prime minster twice
Benazir bhutto
President of the Philippines in 1965
Ferdinand Marcos
Aquinos wife who won the presidency against Marcos in 1986 and exiled him
Corazón Aquino
Independence movement leader for democracy in Burma
Aung San
The daughter of aung San who also worked in this movement
Aung San August kyi
General who seized power in in Islam as the life time president
Suharto
Leader of the Indonesian independence movement
Sukarno
A movement to celebrate African culture heritage and values
Negritude movement
Leader of nonviolent protests in Ghana
Kwame nkrumah
A kikuyu educated in London strong nationalist
Jomo Kenyatta
A secret society made up mostly of kikuyu farmers forced prime of the highlands by the British
Mau Mau
Army office that over threw lumumba
Mobutu sese seko
Algerian national liberation front
FLN
A leader of the FLN who had been imprisoned by the French
Ahmed Ben Bella
A statement that the British government supported the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine
Balfour declaration
The conflict between Israel and the Egypt over the sues canal
Sues crisis
