Indian Independence
$100: The policy of deliberately breaking unjust laws to achieve a goal.
(What is Civil Disobedience?
$100: The "Father of the Turks" who westernized and modernized Turkey.
(Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?)
$100: The title of the monarch of Iran before the 1979 revolution.
(What is the Shah?)
$100: The movement dedicated to establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
(What is Zionism?
$100: The nickname given to the Ottoman Empire as it lost power in the 1800s.
(What is the "Sick Man of Europe"?)
$200: The 1919 event where British troops opened fire on unarmed Indian protesters.
(What is the Amritsar Massacre?)
$200: The empire that collapsed after WWI, leading to the birth of modern Turkey.
(What is the Ottoman Empire?)
$200: The supreme religious leader who returned from exile to lead the 1979 revolution.
(Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?)
$200: The 1917 British document that expressed support for a Jewish state.
(What is the Balfour Declaration?)
$200: The 1857 revolt by Indian soldiers over greased rifle cartridges.
(What is the Sepoy Mutiny?)
$300: Gandhi’s 240-mile march to the sea to protest a British monopoly on a common mineral.
(What is the Salt March?)
$300: The term for removing religious influence from government and law.
(What is Secularization?)
$300: A government controlled by religious leaders and religious laws.
What is a Theocracy?)
$300: The organization formed in 1964 to represent and fight for Palestinian interests.
(What is the PLO?)
$300: The disputed northern region that remains a source of tension between India and Pakistan.
(What is Kashmir?)
$400: Gandhi’s movement to boycott British textiles by making his own clothes.
(What is the Homespun Movement?)
$400: The specific traditional hat Atatürk banned to encourage Western dress.
(What is the Fez?)
$400: The name of the Shah’s program to rapidly modernize and westernize Iran.
(What is the White Revolution?)
$400: Law codes based strictly on Islamic values and the Quran.
(What is Sharia Law?)
$400: The Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in 1953 after nationalizing oil.
(Who is Mohammad Mosaddeq?)
$500: The 1947 division of India into two separate nations (India and Pakistan).
(What is Partition?)
$500: The group that suffered a genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
(Who are the Armenians?)
$500: Americans were held for 444 days during this crisis
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
$500: The 1978 peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.
(What are the Camp David Accords?)
$500: The main religious group that pushed for the creation of Pakistan.
(Who are the Muslims?)