AP World: Chapter 28.1 & 28.2 - Ms. Ginocchio

Jawaharlal Nehru

One of Gandhi's disciples. He was governed India after independence (1947), and committed to program of social reforms & economic development. Preserved civil rights and democracy.

Rajiv Gandhi

Indira's son (Nehru's grandson) and was prime minister of India 1985-1989.

Corazon Aquino

First president of the Philippines in the post Marcos era of late 1980s. She served from 1986-1992. Was one of the key leaders in the popular movement that toppled the dictator.

Ferdinand Marcos

(1917-1989) Philippine politician; he was elected president of the Philippines in 1965, but soon became an authoritarian dictator.

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Benazir Bhutto

Twice prime minister of Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s; first ran for office to avenge her father's execution by the military clique then in power. Daughter of domineering Pakistani prime minister

Religious Revivalism

An approach to religious belief and practice that stresses the literal interpretation of texts sacred to the religion in question and the application of their precepts to all aspects of social life; increasingly associated with revivalist movements in a number of world religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism.

Primary Products

Food or industrial crops for which is a high demand in industrialized economies. Prices of such products tend to fluctuate widely. Typically the major exports of developing world economies.

Neocolonial Economy

Industrialized nations' continued dominance of the world economy; ability of the industrialized nations to maintain economic colonialism without political colonialism

Kwame Nkrumah

Leader of Ghana's independence movement. When independence was gained, he became the first prime minister of Ghana. He started out as a promising leader dedicated to reforms but became a dictator.

Gold Coast Colony

The Gold Coast Colony was a British colony in West Africa, which became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.

What was Ghana's most profitable crop?

Cocoa

Counties with bad military regimes

Uganda (under Idi Amin), Myanmar (formerly Burma), and the Congo

Saddam Hussein

Was a dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently in order to gain the land and the resources. He also refused to let the UN into Iraq in order to check if the country was secretly holding weapons of mass destruction

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Took power in Egypt following a military coup in 1952. He enacted land reforms and used state resources to reduce unemployment. He ousted Britain from the Suez Canal zone in 1956

Free Officers Movement

Military nationalist movement in Egypt founded in the 1930s; often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood; led coup to seize Egyptian government from khedive in July 1952.

Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; committed to fundamentalist movement in Islam; fostered strikes and urban riots against the khedival government.

Hasan al-Banna

An Egyptian social and political reformer, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood. He studied under Muhammad Abduh

Khedive Farouk

Last king of Egypt who was overthrown in a military coup in July 1952. He also assassinated Hasan al-Banna.

Anwar Sadat

Successor to Gamal Abdul Nasser as ruler of Egypt; acted to dismantle costly state programs; accepted peace treaty with Israel in 1973; opened Egypt to investment by Western nations.

Hosni Mubarak

President of Egypt since 1981, succeeding Anwar Sadat and continuing his polices of cooperation with the West.

Green Revolution

Introduction of improved seed strains, fertilizers, and irrigation as a means of producing higher yields in crops such as rice, wheat, and corn; particularly important in the densely populated countries of Asia.

Yuppies

Young urban professionals