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Ch. 22 - Leaders of Asia
Leaders of S. Asia and the Middle East
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History
10th Grade
05/10/2007

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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leader of the Muslim League
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Mohandas Gandhi
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"father of the nation"
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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India's first prime minister
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Indira Gandhi
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an Indian prime minister who signed a friendship treaty with the USSR
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Rajiv Gandhi
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an Indian prime minister who sent troops to crush Tamil rebels
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Sonia Gandhi
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Italian-born widow of a past Indian prime minister who is entering the political zone.
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Congress Party
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dominating party during the "Nehru" dynasty who wanted to seperate religion and gov't
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BJP (bharatiya janata party)
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fundamentalists who wanted the gov't to build off Hindu ideas
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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civilian president of Pakistan
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Benazir Bhutto
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prime minister of Pakistan (twice)
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General Pervez Musharraf
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dismissed the elected gov't of Pakistan and suspended the constitution
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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THE Egyptian president
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Saddam Hussein
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Iraq's dictator
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