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Chapter 18 Vocab1

History

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Congress Party a major national political party in India- also known as the Indian National Congress
Muslim League an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into seperate Muslim and Hindu nations
Partition a division into parts like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and Pakistan
Negritude Movement a movement in which French speaking Africans and West Indians celebrate their heritage of traditional African culture and values.
PLO an organization dedicated to the establishment of an independent state for Palestinians in the Middle East
Intifada Palestinian campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of the west bank and gaza strip
Olso Peace Accords an agreement in 1933, which Israeli prime minister Rabin granted Palestinian self rule in the Gaza strip and the west bank
Transcaucasian Republics Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
Central Asian Republics Uzbeckistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhastan,Kyrguzastan
Mujahideen holy warriors who banded together to fight the Soviet supported-government in the late 1970's
Taliban conservative Islamic group-emerged as the victor
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Leader of Muslim League
Jawahalal Nehry First prime minister of independent India
Indira Gahal Twice elected prime minister of India who assassinated by Sikh bodyguards.
Benazir Bhutto twice elected prime minister of Pakistan who was removed from office 1996
Ferdinand Marcos elected president of the Phillipines who imposed an authoritan regime and stole millions from public treasury
Corazon Aquino President of Philipines who promised to usher in a more open and democratic government
Aung San Suu Kyi member of the national league for democracy whose pro-democratic activities caused her to be placed under house arrest in Burma
Sukarano led efforts to establish in an independent Indonesia
Suharto a general who seized power for himself and turned Indonesia into a police state
Kwame Nkrumah leader of their larely nonviolent movement for independence in the Gold Coast
Jomo Kenyatta strong leader of Kenyan Nationalists who became the president of independent Kenya
Ahmed Ben Bella leader of the FLM; became first president of the newly independent Algeria.
Mobutu Sese Seko army colonnel who seized power in the Congo, renamed the country Zaire and ruled a brutal empire
Anwar Sadat Eqyptian president; planned a joint attack on the date of Jewish holidy
Golda Mar Israeli prime minister whom launched a counterattack during the Yom Kippur war
Yasir Arafat became chairman of the PLO
federal system a system in which power is divided between a central authorit and a number of individual states
Martial Law temporary rule by military authorities over civilian population
dissent an apponent of a governments policies or actions
apartheid a south african policy of complete legal seperation of the races
Nelson Mandela one ANC leader, fought white rule in south Africa and spent 27 years in prison
Politburo the ruling comimittee of the communist party
Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet leader who began the policies of glasnot perestroika and democration of the Soviet Union
glasnot a soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information
perestroika a restructing of the societ economy to permit more local decision making
Boris Yeltsin Russian federation first elected president
shock therapy an abrupt shift to free-market economies
CIS loose federation of former soviet territories
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