| A | B |
| Nelson Mandela | Spent 27 years in prison for fighting against the Apartheid laws in South Africa. He became the first Black South African President after his release. |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Independence Leader of India. He used civil disobedience to throw the British out of India |
| Civil Disobedience | deliberate, public refusal to obey an unfair law. |
| Nobel Peace Prize | Award granted to individuals who use non-violence methods to solve national or international conflicts |
| Alfred Nobel | Inventor of dynamite and the Founder of the Nobel Prize Organization |
| Pass Laws | South African Apartheid law requiring Black South African to carry passes when leaving their homelands |
| Apartheid | System of Racial Segregation in South Africa 1940-1990 |
| homeland | poor living areas where Black South Africans were forced to live |
| Jomo Kenyatta | Independence Leader in Kenya |
| Mau Mau | Rebellion of Kikuyu people against the white settlers in Kenya |
| Salt March | 240 mile march to the sea in an act of civil disobedience against British salt tax |
| boycott | Refusal to buy |
| satygraha | Gandhi called his methods this |
| ANC | African National Congress |
| Partition | to Separate |
| Pakistan | Muslim Nation created in 1947 |
| Bangladesh | East Pakistan became this nation |
| Ghana | West African nation and colony of the British |
| Kwame Nkrumah | Independence leader of Ghana |
| 1947 | Date India received independence |