Chapter 14-15 World History Test

Ayatollah Khomeini

Iranian Shiʿi cleric who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution and became leader of Iran’s Islamic Republic

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979 who was overthrown during the Iranian Revolution

Yasir Arafat

Leader of the PLO and a key figure in the Palestinian movement for independence

Anwar el Sadat

President of Egypt who made peace with Israel and helped create the Camp David Accords

Desmond Tutu

South African leader who fought apartheid using peaceful protest and won the Nobel Peace Prize

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Colombian author known for magical realism and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Juan Peron

President of Argentina who supported workers and created Peronism

Eva Peron

Wife of Juan Peron who helped the poor and working class in Argentina

Fidel Castro

Communist leader who took control of Cuba after the 1959 revolution

Augusto Pinochet

Military dictator who ruled Chile after a 1973 coup

Nelson Mandela

Anti apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first Black president

Vicente Fox

President of Mexico who ended the PRI’s long rule in 2000

Cesar Chavez

Labor leader who organized farmworkers for better working conditions

Jomo Kenyatta

First president of independent Kenya and independence leader

Steve Biko

Anti apartheid activist who started the Black Consciousness Movement

PRI

Institutional Revolutionary Party that controlled Mexico for most of the 1900s

Afrikaner

A South African of European descent who speaks Afrikaans

Zionists

People who support a Jewish homeland in Israel

Falkland Islands War 1982

War between Argentina and Britain where Britain took back the islands

Diseases in Africa

Malaria HIV AIDS and tuberculosis are common major diseases

Camp David Accords

1978 agreement between Egypt and Israel that led to peace

Decolonization in Africa

Process where African countries gained independence mainly in the 1950s and 1960s after European control ended