India Achieves Freedom
This leader used nonviolent disobedience like boycotts and strikes to push for Indian independence.
Who is Gandhi?
This West African nation was the first sub-Saharan country to win independence from Britain.
What is Ghana?
This is the term for the global dispersal of Jewish people after being driven out of Palestine.
What is the Diaspora?
This is the term for people who favored a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Who are Zionists?
This is the term for the dividing of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations.
What is Partition?
This Kenyan guerrilla group used violence to fight back against British settlers who seized their farmland.
Who are the Mau Mau?
This 1979 agreement normalized relations between Egypt and Israel and returned the Sinai Peninsula.
What are the Camp David Accords?
This African country experienced a genocide in 1994 in which 800,000 people were killed in just a few months.
What is Rwanda?
This man became India's first Prime Minister and led the country for 17 years.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
This Congolese leader was executed after seeking Soviet help during a rebellion.
Who is Patrice Lumumba?
Israel defeated multiple Arab armies in this famously short war in 1967.
What is the Six-Day War?
This Muslim extremist group seized control of Gaza in 2007 and has rejected Israel's right to exist.
What is Hamas?
This Sikh holy site was stormed by the Indian army in 1984, killing around 500 Sikhs and triggering the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
What is the Golden Temple at Amritsar?
This brutal Congolese dictator ruled for 32 years and was kept in power largely because of his anti-communist stance during the Cold War.
Who is Mobutu Sese Seko?
This Palestinian organization was formed in 1964 to push for a Palestinian state, later led by Yasir Arafat.
What is the PLO?
Both Gandhi in India and Nkrumah in Ghana used this type of resistance to fight colonial rule.
What is nonviolent resistance?
Both India and Pakistan tested these dangerous weapons in 1998, making their conflict especially threatening.
What are nuclear weapons?
Belgian colonial favoritism toward this minority group in Rwanda created the ethnic tensions that eventually led to genocide.
Who are the Tutsis?
This 1993 agreement gave Palestinians self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank (but later fell apart).
What are the Oslo Accords?
This is the name given to the proposed solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which two separate states would exist side by side, one Israeli and one Palestinian.
What is the Two-State Solution?