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| Muslim nation formed after the Indian Subcontinent was given independence by British in 1947. |
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| Mohandas Gandhi's right hand man during the independence movement. Nehru became India's first Prime Minister after independence. |
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| Using non-violent protest to force a government to make changes or grant independence. Protests may include marches, speeches and boycotts. |
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| Nehru's daughter who later became Prime Minister of India. She was killed by her Sikh body guards at a time when some Sikhs were looking for independence from India. |
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| Using modern technology to increase crop production. (genetic splicing, irrigation, fertilizers, mechanization). |
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| Annual wind patterns that bring rain in the summer and cold dry air in the winter. |
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| The name that the French called their colonies in Southeast Asia. It was made up of current day Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. |
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| A body of land that sticks out into a body of water and is surrounded on three sides by water. |
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| War between North Vietnam (Communist) vs South Vietnam (non-communist) in which the United States sent troops to defend South Vietnam before it fell to the North. The North was supplies by the Soviets and China. |
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| U.S. policy of trying to stop the spread of Communism between the 1950’s through the 1980’s. |
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| Communist leader in North Vietnam |
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| leader of the communist group called the Khmer Rouge which committed genocide against their own people in Cambodia. |
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| British East India Company |
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| A private British company that controlled India as a colony before the Sepoy Mutiny. |
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| A group of Indian soldiers who were working for the British East India Company began attacking the English. The result was the rebellion was that the British government had to send troops to put down the rebellion and made India a colony of the British Empire. |
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| Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi |
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| Leader of the Indian Nationalist movement. He was able to get Muslims and Hindus to work together in India. Organized non-violent protests like boycotts and the Salt March. |
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| Nationalist Muslim group formed to force the British out of India and eventually create the state of Pakistan. |
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| Political party that included Hindus and Muslims, created to force the British out of India. |
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| Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amristar to protest the Rowlatt acts. This is considered to be the turning point in the Indian Nationalist Movement because it brought Muslims and Hindus together. |
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| a peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240 mile walk to the sea where they made their own salt from evaporated sea water. |
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| Refers to the British colony of India being split up into two countries: a Muslim Pakistan and a Hindu India. |
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| The eight actions a Buddhist must follow to eliminate desire and reach Nirvana. |
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