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Flashcards by Chelsey Brown, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chelsey Brown
almost 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Partition | Divided into different parts |
| Viceroy | The governor of the colony of a monarchy |
| Apartheid | Separation of the races created by white Africans |
| Zionism | the political movement to set up a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
| Lord Mountbatten | The last British viceroy of India |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Led the nonviolent resistance movement |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | a close friend of Gandhi supported western-style industrialization |
| Nelson Mandela | led the struggle against apartheid which finally ended in the 1990s. |
| Jomo Kenyatta | became the recognized leader of the Kenyan independence movement |
| Gamal Abdul Nasser | became the President of Egypt in 1954 |
| Golda Meir | lead Israel through the Yom Kippur War in 1973 |
| Indian National Congress | One of India’s oldest political party |
| Muslim League | campaigned for a separate Muslim nation |
| Gandhi's tactics for independence | Gandhi advocated civil disobedience and passive resistance to British rule. Gandhi had led protest against British rule even before WWI |
| Majority religion in India | Hindu |
| Majority religion in Pakistan | Muslim |
| Indian problems since independence | Hindus in Pakistan moved to India. –Muslims in India moved to Pakistan |
| Africa example of peaceful independence | Ghana |
| Africa example of violent independence | Nigeria |
| Example of violent independence | Algeria, South Africa, and Kenya |
| Mau Mau uprising | hoped to win African control of the country through a gradual process. efforts were interrupted by the uprising of radical African nationalist. |
| French Mandates | included Syria and Lebanon. |
| British Mandates | included Jordan (originally Trans Jordan) and Palestine. |
| Nasser's Three main Accomplishments | Nationalizing the Suez Canal. –Developing a close relationship with the Soviet Union. –Building the Aswan High Dam |
| Majority Religion Of Israel | Jews |
| Yom Kippur War | Israel soon defended itself against attacks by Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria •Golden Meir lead Israel through |
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