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Question | Answer |
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challenges since independance | -civil war that ended w/ making bangladesh -war with pakistan over kashmir -nucleur weapons race w/ pakistan -multiple terrorist attacks |
civil disobedience | the refusal to obey unjust laws |
Pakistan | muslim country that split off from india after WW1 |
Kashmir | indian state that didnt want to join india or pakistan |
bangladesh | the country formed after after east pakistan declared independence from pakistan |
mohandas k. ghandi | popular indian leader who protested british rule using civil desobedience |
jawaharlal nehru | india's first prime minister after it gained independence |
what was the result of the massacre of Amritsar | it made the indian people want independence from britain more |
what 2 countries gained independence from britain? | myanmar and malysia |
who fought to control vietnam? | france |
what side did the U.S support in the vietnam war? | south vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh | a communist leader who formed the vietnamese to drive out the japanese |
why did the u.s decide to help the french in vietnam | we wanted to stop the spread of communism in asia |
which countries in africa gained independence before 1960? | egypt, libya, moroccco, and tunisa |
name the leaders and their countries that won independence in africa south of the sahara | kwanie nkrumah-the gold coast& ghana jomo kenyaeta- kenya, ahmed sekou toure- guinea |
pan africanism | the unity of all black africans |
apartheid | a system of value that seperated racial and ethnic groups and limited the rights of blacks |
nelson mandela | leader of Anc who was arrested in 1962 |