| A | B |
| Mohandas Gandhi | leads India Independence |
| Nelson Mandela | fights apartheid in South Africa |
| Jomo Kenyatta | leads Kenya to independence from Britain |
| Ho Chi Minh | leads Vietnam to independence from France |
| Algeria | had a violent struggle for independence against French |
| West Africa | saw peaceful transition to independence |
| France, Britain, Beligium, Portugal | lose colonies after World War II |
| United Nations Charter | said African colonies had right to "self-determination" |
| Vietnam (former Indochina) | French colony |
| Congo | Belgium colony |
| Egypt | wins control of Suez Canal from Britain |
| Rwanda | genocide here: Hutus kill Tutsi |
| "apartheid" | segregation policy in South Africa |
| "self-determination" | means you are free to make choices |
| religious differences | Why India was divided at independence |
| Civil War fought between | East and West Pakistan (Pakistan and Bangladesh) |