| A | B |
|---|
| Congress Party | group consisting mostly of Hindus that led a campaign for India's independence |
| Muhammed Ali Jinnah | leader of the Muslim League |
| Muslim League | Muslim group that led a campaign for India's independence |
| Loud Mountbatten | last British viceroy of India |
| partition | division of India into two nations |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | first prime minister of India |
| Indira Gandhi | daughter of Nehru who followed him as prime minister |
| Rajiv Gandhi | son of Indira Gandhi who became prime minister |
| Benazir Bhutto | former prime minister of Pakistan |
| Balfour Declaration | British statement of support for a Jewish national homeland in Palestine |
| Suez Crisis | 1956 even that occurred when Egypt attacked the Suez Canal before it came under Egypt's control |
| Six-Day War | war fought in 1967 in which Israel defeated Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria |
| Anwar Sadat | Egyptian leader who signed a peace agreement with Israel |
| Golda Meir | Israeli prime minister at the time of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war |
| Menachem Begin | Israeli prime minister who signed a peace agreement with Egypt |
| Camp David Accords | agreement in which Egypt recognized Israel as a nation and Israel gave the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt |
| Hosni Mubarak | leader of Egypt after Anwar Sadat |
| PLO | Palestinian Liberation Organization |
| Politburo | ruling committee of the Communist Party |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991 |
| glasnost | policy of openness |
| perestroika | policy aimed at reforming the Soviet economy |
| Solidarity | Polish workers' movement |
| Lech Walesa | leader of Solidarity |
| reunification | uniting of East and West Germany into one nation |
| Boris Yeltsin | political opponent of Gorbachev who became presiden of Russia |
| CIS | a loose federation of former Soviet territories |
| shock therapy | Yeltsin's plan for changing the Soviet economy |
| ethnic cleansing | policy of murder and brutality aimed at ridding a country of a particular ethnic group |
