Transcript Chapter 10 World In Transition

1) Congress Party-India’s national political party
2) Muslim League-An organization founded in India
to protect Muslim interest
3) Partition–The separation of India into separate
Hindu and Muslim nations
4) Jawaharlal Nehru-India’s first prime minister
5) Indira Gandhi-Nehru’s daughter who succeeded
him as prime minister of India
6) Rwanda-Small East African nation that has seen
large bloodshed between the two main ethnic groups
7)Apartheid- A policy that called for complete separation of
races in South Africa
8)African National Congress- A group formed to resist the
apartheid policy in South Africa
9)Nelson Mandela- Leader of the African National Congress
10)President de Klerk- President of South Africa who tried to
end its isolation
11)Anwar Sadat- Egyptian President who led an attack against
the Israelis on Yom Kippur
12) Golda Meir- Israeli prime minister who led an counterattack
against Egypt after the Egyptian attack on Yom Kippur
13) Camp David Accords- Ended 30 years of hostilities between
Egypt and Israel
14) Yasir Arafat- Chairman of the PLO
15) Mohammed Reza Pahlavi- Shah of Iran following WWII
who embraced Western governments
16) Ayatollah Khomeini- Leader of Iran’s religious opposition
who opposed the Shah and Western influence
17) PLO- Palestine Liberation Organization
18) Oslo Peace Accords- Agreement between Israel and
Palestine that gave Palestine self-rule of the Gaza Strip and
West Bank
19) Mujahideen- Afghan rebels or holy warriors who fought against
the Soviets
20) Taliban- Afghanistan based group who took control of the country
following the Soviet’s withdrawal and installed a radical version of
Islamic Law.
21) Saddam Hussein- Iraqi President who was in power for over 20
years
22) Persian Gulf War- A war between Iraq and Kuwait in which Iraq
invaded Kuwait in attempt to take over their oil fields
23)Kurds- Kurdish people who have been persecuted all throughout
the middle east, the biggest example of this was when Saddam
Hussein dropped poison gas on the Kurds killing some 5,000 people