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| Amritsar | 1919 in India, when the British opened fire on 10,000 fasting and praying Hindus and Muslims, against British law to publicly gather, kills 400+ defenseless Indians |
| Mohandas Gandhi | inspirational, nonviolent leader in Indian, who wanted independence for India, equality and peace between Hindu/Muslim |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1st Prime Minister of India, 1947, allies with Gandhi |
| Partition | Independent India splits up, divide India into Pakinstan for Muslims, India for Hindus |
| Green Revolution | change in farming methods to increase food production; aka fertilizers, irrigation, etc. |
| Mother Teresa | Catholic nun, lived in India, worked with the "poorest of the poor". worked with orphages, people w/diseases, disabilities, raised awareness for the poverty in 3rd world countries |
| Kashmir | disputed territory, where both sides (India/Pakistan/China) have claims to it. |
| Kwame Nkrumah | African Leader in Ghana, US Educated, led the Pan-African movement, economic plan "tanked" due to lack of treasury |
| Apartheid | Legal Separation of races in South Africa |
| Nelson Mandela | 1st Black President of South Africa, 1994, spent 27 years in jail, national hero |
| Rwanda | Genocide in Rwanda, Hutus (majority) vs. Tutsis (minorities), 800,000 Tutsis are killed by Hutus |
| Darfur | Sudan, Government backed "genocide" of Black Africans, Christians, etc. |
| Yalta Conference | After WWII, Britian, France, US and Russia met to split up and organize Germany |
| Iron Curtain | Split in Europe (Germany) between Communist countries and the "Westernized" Countries, figuratively line |
| Containment | trying to keep communism "at bay", policies trying to ensure there are no more communist countries0 |
| Satellite States | Eastern European countries between the West and Russia. Puppet Governments for the USSR, that are communist. |
| Marshall Plan | Money given to Europeans countries to rebuild after WWII, in the hopes they will not go towards communism |
| Berlin Airlift | The allies drop supplies to West Germany after borders were closed |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organizationan intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty, which was signed on 4 April 1949. The goal is to avoid conflicts |
| United Nations | International organization of countries after WWII designed to solve world problems |
