Postcolonial Leaders
This political figure was one of Gandhi’s disciples who governed India after independence and was committed to social reform and economic development and helped India preserve civil rights and democracy.
Who is Nehru?
This leader took power in Egypt following a military coup and enacted land reforms and ousted Britain from the Suez Canal zone in 1956 before nationalizing it.
Who is Nasser?
This was the long-imprisoned leader of the African National Congress who worked to dismantle the apartheid system and became the first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This event introduced the improvement of seed strains, fertilizers, and irrigation as a means of producing higher yields in crops such as rice, wheat, and corn, and was specifically impactful in Asia.
What is the Green Revolution?
This religious ruler of Iran following revolution the to expel the shah of Iran emphasized religious purification, attempting to eliminate Western influences and establish purely Islamic government.
Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
This was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru who was installed as a figurehead prime minister by the Congress Party bosses in 1966, eventually becoming a central figure in Indian politics.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
This was Nasser's successor as a ruler of Egypt who allowed for more private initiatives in Egypt and acted to dismantle costly state programs while opening Egypt to investment by Western nations.
Who is Anwar Sadat?
This was a black political organization within South Africa that pressed for end to policies of apartheid and sought an open democracy.
What is the African National Congress(ANC)?
These foods or industrial crops are characterized by having high demand in industrialized economies while being exported by developing economies, and their prices tend to fluctuate widely.
What are primary products?
This was a common approach to religious belief during the postcolonial era that stressed the literal interpretation of texts sacred to the religion in question and the application of their precepts to all aspects of social life.
What is religious revivalism?
She was a two-time prime minister of Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s who first ran for office to avenge her father’s execution by a military clique then in power.
Who is Benazir Bhutto?
This was the president of Egypt who succeeded Anwar Sadat and continuing Sadat’s policies of cooperation with the West.
Who is Hosni Mubarak?
This white South African president in the late 1980s and early 1990s worked with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress to dismantle the apartheid system and open the way for a democratically elected government.
Who is F. W. de Klerk?
This type of economy is characterized by industrialized nations’ continued dominance of the world economy and their ability to maintain economic colonialism without political colonialism.
What is a neocolonial economy?
This was a South African system designed not only to ensure a monopoly of political power and economic dominance for the white minority but also to impose extreme segregation on all races.
What is apartheid?
This was the first president of the Philippines in the post-Marcos era who was one of the key leaders in the popular movement that toppled Marcos the dictator.
Who is Corazon Aquino?
This military nationalist movement in Egypt was often allied with the Muslim Brotherhood and led a coup to seize the Egyptian government from the khedives in July 1952.
What is the Free Officers Movement?
This black African leader, along with Nelson Mandela, opposed the apartheid system in South Africa.
Who is Walter Sisulu?
This is the real term for the end of your shoelace
What is an aglet?
These were areas under apartheid designated for ethnolinguistic groups within the black African population, typically overpopulated and poverty-stricken.
What are homelands?
This was the leader of Ghana’s independence movement moved vigorously to initiate programs that would translate his high aspirations for his people into reality but became a dictator in the process.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This Egyptian nationalist movement was committed to a fundamentalist, revivalist movement in Islam and fostered strikes and urban riots against the khedival government.
What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
This person organized the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa in opposition to apartheid and was murdered while in police custody.
Who is Steve Biko?
This is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the fifty states in the United States.
What is Q?
This is the specific typographical term for the small dot found above the lowercase letters "i" and "j."
What is a tittle?