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World History II, Chapter 34
"The Colonies Become New Nations" (from McDougal Littell's World History: Patterns of Interaction)
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History
12th Grade
05/11/2010

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Congress Party
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India's national political party
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Muslim League
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Organization founded in 1906 in India to protect Muslim interests
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Leader of the Muslim League
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Partition
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Division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Independent India's first prime minister
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Indira Gandhi
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Nehru's daughter who became prime minister of India
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Benazir Bhutto
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Prime minister of Pakistan twice
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Ferdinand Marcos
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Authoritarian president of the Philippines
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Corazon Aquino
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President of the Philippines after Marcos
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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Pro-democratic activist in Burma
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Sukarno
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First president of independent Indonesia
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Suharto
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Military general who caused an Indonesian bloodbath killing hundreds of thousands
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Negritude movemenent
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A movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values
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Kwame Nkrumah
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First prime minister of Ghana who focused too much on Pan-African efforts
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Jomo Kenyatta
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First president of Kenya
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Ahmed Ben Bella
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First president of Algeria
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Mobutu Sese Seko
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Ruler of the Congo/Zaire for 32 years
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Anwar Sadat
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Egyptian president of note
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Golda Meir
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Israeli prime minister during the Yom Kippur War
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PLO
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Palestinian Liberation Organization, pushed for the formation of a Palestinian state
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Yasir Arafat
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Chairman of the PLO, led numerous attacks against Israel
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Camp David Accords
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Ended 30 years of hostilities between Egypt and Israel
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Intifada
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"uprising" - civil disobedience by Palestinians
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Oslo Peace Accords
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Israel and the PLO recognized each other's right to exist
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Transcaucasian Republics
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Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
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Central Asian Republics
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Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
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Mujahideen
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"holy warriors" - Afghanis who fought against the Soviet-supported government
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Taliban
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Conservative Islamic group in Afghanistan
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