WHAP Units 8.5-8.7

Muslim league

independence group in India, advocated for separate state for Muslims

Kwame Nkrumah

independence leader in Ghana

One-party state

country with democratic tendencies, but leadership comes from one political party

organization of African unity

pan-African group of nations

Algerian War of Independence

war led by FLN against French

Charles De Gaulle

french leader, stabilized France during Algerian War

Algerian civil war

war that challenged control of FLN in Algeria

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese independence leader, communist

Viet Cong

national Liberation Front, independence group in South Vietnam

Gamal Abdel Nasser

independence leader in Egypt, pan-Arab leader

Suez Crisis

crisis over control of Suez canal

Biafran civil war

war in Nigeria between Nigerian government and Igbos people

Quiet Revolution

effort by Quebecois to expand autonomy in Canada

Zionist movement

movement that advocates for the existence of a Jewish homeland

Six day war

war between israel and palestine, egypt, jordan, and syria. Israel gains territory

Yom Kippur War

war between Israel and neighbors. Started with preemptive strike

Camp david accords

agreement between Israel and Egypt that lowered tensions between them

Palestinian Liberation organization

Palestinian nationalist group

Fatah

fragment of PLO, currently controls West Bank

Hamas

fragment of PLO, currently controls Gaza strip

Khmer Rouge

cambodian communist group

Kashmir

region in Northern South Asia

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

first woman prime minister in world, socialist

indira gandhi

Prime minister in India

Benazir Bhutto

Prime minister in Pakistan

Julius Nyerere

Tanzanian leader

metropole

large city of former “empire”

Martin Luther King Jr.

African American leader of Southern Christian leadership conference

Nelson mandela

leader in anti-apartheid movement

Wladyslaw Gomulka

Polish leader, worked with USSR

Imre Nagy

Hungarian leader who was against the USSR

Prague Spring

movement to expand Czechoslovakian autonomy

Alexander Dubcek

Czechoslovakian leader

Brezhnev doctrine

like monroe doctrine, stated that the USSR had the right to invade any country in its sphere of influence which threatened the stability of eastern Europe

Kent State University

location of violent response to anti-war protest

Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Radical Catholic nationalist group in Northern Ireland

Ulster Defense Association

radical protestant group in Northern Ireland

Basque homeland and freedom (ETA)

Basque nationalist group

Abimael Guzman

leader of shining path

Shining Path

communist group in Peru that used violence