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World History Ch 31
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Outcastes (the lowest rank of Indian society): | dalits |
| A minority religious group in India | Sikhs |
| India’s first prime minister | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| The term partition means: | division |
| a prosperous northwest Indian state | Punjab |
| Why did India become two countries after independence in 1947? | Muslim leaders feared discrimination in a Hindu dominated India |
| Why is Kashmir a source of tension between India and Pakistan? | The nations continue to clash over Kashmir’s status |
| One of the most important tasks facing Nehru was: | Improving India’s economy |
| Bangladesh is: | the former eastern part of Pakistan and one of the world’s poorest nations |
| Countries of the Nonaligned Movement allied themselves with: | no particular bloc |
| The first president of Indonesia was: | Sukarno |
| One of the world’s newest nations is: | East Timor |
| The Filipino dictator who was overthrown in the 1980s | Ferdinand Marcos |
| Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 | Aung San Suu Kyi |
| Was elected president of the Philippines in 1986 | Corazon Aquino |
| A statement that accurately compares Malaysia and Myanmar | Malaysia has prospered as a market economy, but Myanmar has suffered under the rule of an autocratic government. |
| Two Southeast Asian countries that gained independence in the 1950s | Brunei and Singapore |
| Two major challenges Indonesia faced | geography and diversity |
| One reason for the religious diversity in Southeast Asia | The region is a crossroads between South and East Asia |
| After the Philippines gained independence from the United States in 1946: | a wealthy elite controlled politics and the economy |
| savannas | GRASSLAND WITH SCATTERED TREES |
| Kwame Nkrumah | LEADER OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN GHANA |
| coup d’etat | FORCIBLE OVERTHROW OF A GOVERNMENT |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | DICTATOR OF ZAIRE DURING THE COLD WAR |
| Islamist | PEOPLE WHO WANT GOVERNMENT POLICIES TO BE BASED ON ISLAM |
| One reason why some African nations won independence peacefully and others violently | Independence turned violent where many European colonists had settled |
| How did former colonial rulers remain influential in some independent African nations? | They retained control of businesses |
| During Kwame Nkrumah’s presidency: | the government became more dictatorial and corrupt |
| What happened after an Islamist party won the 1992 election in Algeria? | The military rejected the election results, setting off a civil war |
| Which former colony won independence from the British peacefully? | Nigeria |
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