Ap 4 Ch34 Africa & Asia In The Era Of Independence_Vocabulary

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The Battle of Algiers

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moving film on the struggle for independence in Algeria

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Bangladesh

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this was created at the end of the East and West Pakistan war in 1972

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Biafra

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this independent state was claimed by the Ibo peoples of Eastern NIgeria in 1967

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Saddam Hussein

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military ruler of Iraq
led Iraq in the ten-year war with Iran
defeated by coalition of American, European, and Arab forces in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War

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Indira Gandhi

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was installed as a figure head prime minister by the Congress Party Bosses in 1966
became the central figure in Indian politics

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Corazon Aquino

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first president of the Philippines in the post-Marcos Era of the late 1980s

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Benazir Bhutto

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twice prime minister of Pakistan in the 1980s an 1990s

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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India's first prime minister

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Religious Revivalism

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an approach to religious belief that stresses literal interpretation of texts sacred to the religion in question and the application of their precepts to all aspects of social life

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Primary Products

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food or crops for which their is a high demand in industrialized economies

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Neocolonial

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economy that results from continued domination from the first and second world nation's of the world's economy

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Green Revolution

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averted global famine and rendered stable crops over much of the developing world

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Ghana

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name taken from an ancient African kingdom

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Gamal Abdul Nasser

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took power in Egypt after a military coup in 1952

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Free Officers Movement

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radical movement that succeeded in gaining power
evolved from a secret organization established in the Egyptian army in the 1930s

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Muslim Brotherhood

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a revolutionary alternative to khedival regime

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Anwar Sadat

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Nasser's successor
dismantled the massive state apparatus

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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religious ruler of Iran following the revolution of 1979 to expel the Pahlavi shah of Iran

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First Gulf War

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resulted in swallowed up Iranian energies and resources for almost an entire decade

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Apartheid

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policy of strict racial segregation in South Africa

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Homelands

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areas of South Africa designated for groups of black Africans

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African National Congress

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a black organization that was declared illegal

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Nelson Mandela

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leader of the African National Congress
became the first black prime minister of South Africa