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satyagraha | a non-violent technique use by Gandhi, it combines the Hindu words for "truth" and "holding firmly" |
civil disobedience | examples include peaceful protests and non-violent demonstrations |
harijan | it means "children of God" and was used by Gandhi to describe India's lowest caste (social class) |
partition | to divide |
migration | movement of people from one place to another |
Pan-Africanism | the unity of all Africans, regardless of national boundaries |
apartheid | when a white-dominated government divided South Africa into separate and unequal social classes |
dissident | a person who protests government policies in any way |
Brezhnev Doctrine | it declared the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in any Eastern European nation that posed a threat to communism |
detente | French word meaning "a relaxing of tensions" |