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21 Cards in this Set
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Congress Party
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A group made up of mostly Hindus that led a campaign for India's independence.
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Muhammed Ali Jinnah
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The leader of the Muslim League.
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Muslim League
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The Muslim group that led a campaign for India's independence.
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Partition
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Division of India into two nations.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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The first prime minister of India.
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Indira Gandhi
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Daughter of Nehru who followed him as prime minister.
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Benazir Bhutto
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Former prime minister of Pakistan.
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Ferdinand Marcos
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President of Philippines from 1965-1986 who inflicted an authoritarian regime and stole millions of dollars from the public treasury. He was forced to exile to Hawaii after his position.
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Corazon Aquino
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Aquino’s widow who led Philippines after Marcos. She promised to bring in an open democratic form of government.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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A Nobel peace prizewinner who returned to Burma to form a democracy for Burma using the term National League of Democracy. She was place under house arrest by the country’s government because they refused to accept the election that she was proclaimed the winner.
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Sukarno
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A leader who made an effort to establish an independent Indonesia since it was a colony controlled by the Dutch. He tried to make the political and economic portions of the country better, unfortunately he was not able to manage the economy and inflation occurred.
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Suharto
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One of Sukarno’s general who stopped the rebellion after Sukarno. He took over power and slaughter a million Indonesians before becoming president of the country. In 1967, he turned Indonesia into a police state and enforced periods of martial law who eventually stepped down in 1998, due to government repressions and crippling economies.
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Negritude Movement
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A movement where French-speaking Africans and West Indians use to express their pride and consciousness in Africa. The significance regarding the movement is that it celebrates African culture, heritage, and values.
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Kwame Nkrumah
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The leader of the largely nonviolent movement for Ghana. He helped free the Gold coast from Great Britain. The British government would lock up the leader for planning boycotts and strikes. The significance is that he became the first prime minister of Ghana, who pushed through new schools, road, and expanded health facilities.
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Jomo Kenyatta
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The British people placed a Kenyan nationalist who refused to criticize the Mau Mau organization in jail. He later became the president of Kenya who helped connect the country’s various ethnics and language groups.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
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First president of independent Algeria who tried to make the country a socialist state. In 65’, his army commander overthrew Ben Bella.
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Mobutu Sese Seko
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An army officer who seized power of Congo in 1965. He ruled his country for 32 years under the name Zaire. He controlled the state by force, one-party rule, and gifts to his supporters. Mobutu was unaffected by armed rebellions.
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Transcaucasian Republics
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Three nations that lie in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia make up the Transcaucasian Republics.
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Central Asian Republics
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The five nations that lies East of the Caspian Sea and extending to the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains. Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan make up the Central Asian Republics.
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Mujahideen
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Holy warriors banded together by opposition forces.
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Taliban
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A conservative Islamic group that looked at the Afghan world in an extreme way.
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