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| Mohandas Gandhi | "The Great Soul" leader of India's independence movement he stressed civil disobedience and nonviolence |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Leader of INC, became first prime minister of independent India |
| Muslim League | nationalist organization created for Muslims in India |
| Indian National Congress | nationalist group formed in 1880s to help gain more freedoms for India's people |
| British East India Company | joint stock company responsible for helping Britain colonize India |
| Partition of India | decision by Britain to divide Indian territory into 5 independent countries due to differences in religion and ethnicity |
| Sri Lanka | island country formally called Ceylon and created in Partition of India |
| Pakistan | mainly Muslim country created after the partition of India |
| Bangladesh | Formerly East Pakistan, it won its independence from W. Pakistan with help from India |
| Hinduism | the primary religion in India |
| Islam | the primary religion in Pakistan and Bangladesh after the partition of India |
| Civil Disobedience | refusing to obey unjust laws as a form of protest |
| Kashmir | disputed territory between India and Pakistan that still leads to tension between the two countries |
| UN charter | document that created the United Nations and urged for self determination to be granted to the people of the world |
| Self determination | the idea that people should be able to choose for themselves how they are ruled |
| Jomo Kenyatta | led Kenya to its independence from Britain |
| Kwame Nkumra | independence leader of Ghana |
| Apartheid | policy of legal separation in South Africa to discriinate against the black africans |
| Nelson Mandela | leader of ANC in S. Africa, he was a political prisoner for 30 years and would be elected President of S. Africa after his release |
| African National Congress | political party in S. Africa created to end apartheid, it was banned for many years by S. Africa's government |
| Kenya | won its independence from Britain after a violent struggle |
| Algeria | won its independence from France after a long and bloody civil war |
| Ghana | had a relativeply peaceful tranistion to independence from Britain |
| Developed Countries | countries with large middle classes, high literacy rates, low population growth, and modern infrastructures |
| Developing countries | countries with large gaps in wealth, poor health care, low literacy rates, and lack modern conveniences |
| Deforestation | environemental problem facing development countries as they clear forest land for arge scale farming |
| Guest Workers | immigrants who migrate to developed countries often to perform low paying jobs, causing friction and tension in those countries |
| Middle East | area of the world that features a conflict between Muslim Arabs and Jewish Israelis |
| Balkans | Area of the world featuring conflict between Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian muslims |
| "Asian Tigers" | term given to asian capitalist economies that have seen their |
