AP World History - Chapter 25

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Indian nationalist, politician, and lawyer who led the campaign against British rule by employing methods of nonviolent confrontation

Indian National Congress

led India after its freedom from Britain

decolonization

process by which former colonies achieved their independence, as with the newly emerging African nations in the 1950s and 1960s

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

politician and independence fighter who led the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the founding of Pakistan in 1947 and then served as the first leader of independent Pakistan until his death

Muslim League

group of Muslims in India who wanted a separate Muslim state

Jawaharlal Nehru

Indian activist and politician who fought for decades for Indian independence and became the first prime minister of India

Nonaligned Movement

movement in which leaders of former colonial states sought to assert their independence from either Soviet or U.S. domination

Ho Chi Minh

North Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who first fought the French and then the Americans, and then became the first prime minister of North Vietnam in 1945

Vo Nguyen Giap

Vietnamese general who served as Ho Chi Minh’s right-hand man and is credited with the strategy behind the Vietnamese victory at the battle of Dien Bien Phu

Geneva Conference

international meeting in Switzerland to settle outstanding issues from the Korean WAr and restore peace in Indochina; dominated with Cold War concerns

Viet Cong

military part of National Liberation Front; attacks were successful

Lyndon Johnson

President of the United States; increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam

Vietnamization

President Richard Nixon’s strategy of turning the Vietnam War over to the South Vietnamese

intifada

Palestinian mass movement against Israeli rule in the Gaza Strip and other occupied territories

Gamal Abdel Nasser

second president of Egypt who led the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952 and served from 1954 until his death

Suez crisis

Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to nationalize the Suez Canal and use the money collected to build a dam on the Nile River; other nations tried to take control of the canal which U.S. and Soviet Union did not approve