Decolonization
The nation that was known as the "jewel of the crown" and was colonized until 1948
What is India?
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
Women first demonstrated their worth on the home front during this event
What is World War I?
This became the main source of news by the 1950s
What is television?
A natural source of energy such as coal, petroleum, or gas
What is a fossil fuel?
The country that gained its independence from the United States following World War II
What is the Philippines?
The man who spent nearly 27 years in prison and went on to become the first black President of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
In this type of country, women typically have equal rights and opportunities as men
What is developed or democratic?
This was first used in 1995 to connect people worldwide
What is the internet?
The effect during which gases in the atmosphere trap heat leading to an increase in temperature [or global warming]
What is the "Greenhouse Effect"?
The country that formed out of East Pakistan following the Pakistan Civil War
What is Bangladesh?
The term for segregation in South Africa through 1991
What is apartheid?
The term meaning "the right to vote"
What is suffrage?
The laboratory in space that is shared by 16 nations (Abbreviation not acceptable)
What is the International Space Station?
An agreement established in Japan by various nations in order to reduce greenhouse gases
South Africa gained its independence from this European nation
What is Great Britain?
Taxes on this good were boycotted by a 241 mile march
What is salt?
This is denied to many women around the world in developing nations to this day
What is education?
The Soviet satellite that sparked the "Space Race" and influenced the U.S. Space Program
What is Sputnik?
The increase in food production leading to higher crop yield and lower rates of famine in the 1960s and 1970s
What is the Green Revolution?
India and Pakistan are currently fighting for the claim to this territory
What is Kashmir?
Protests led by Muslims in India led to the creation of this nation
What is Pakistan?
Either the year women gained the right to vote or the # amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote
What is 1920?; What is the 19th Amendment?
The first animal sent to space by the Soviet Union
What is Laika the dog?
The gasses that contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer
What are chlorofluorocarbons?