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sepoy

Indian solder

“crown jewel”

India was considered this of all of the British

Mohandas K Gandhi

Indian leader that launched a nonviolent campaign of noncooperation with the British

Indian Discontent with the British

They controlled their land, they tried to convert people to Christianity, Racism

civil disobedience

active refusal to obey certain laws or commands of a government,

salt march

a 24-day nonviolent protest led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 against British salt taxes

Indian nationalist congress

is a major political party in India,

Muslim league

organization founded in 1906 to protect the right of Muslims in India

partition

the division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations

deaths in the fighting

5000 people dead

why was Gandhi assassinated

a Hindu extremist thought Gandhi protected the Muslims shot and killed him on January 30 1948

Bangladesh

east pakistan declared its self an independent nation

who was the first colony to gain independence after WWII

Philippines USA

bell act

created free trade between the USA the philopenas for 8 years

ferdinand marcros martial law

imposed this on the philipeans after 8 years of rule

MNLF

group the fought the Pilipino government for independence

why is singapore wealthy

because it was a bank center and a center of trade

negretude movemnt

a movement to celebrate African culture heritage and values

ANC

politicle party

boers

Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa

apartheid

a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.

zionists

people who favor jews

balfour declaration

called for jews homeland in palatine

intifada

the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.

west bank and gaza strip

two Palestinian territories with distinct geographical, political, and social characteristics, central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

PLO

make land of Israels

camp davide records

first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country

powerfull groups for centuries

the rejion was historscllhy controled by the monghols and later became part of the russion empiute and the soviot union

role of USSR

establishing collective farms and heavy industries

azerbaijan war with armenia

fought over the nogorna Karabakh region

control of Afghanistan

bot great britan and russia fought for afghanistan

mujahideen

holy worriers that fought against the communist take over in Afghanistan

taliban

group that took over most of afghanistan

osama bin laden

leader of the terrorist group al Qaeda who used Afghanistan base for training

war on terror

global military campaign launched by the united states and its allies on September 11 2001 aimed at dismasting al Qaeda and removing Taliban