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Question 1

Rowlatt Acts

Answer 1

laws to prevent Indians from protesting Britsh actions

Question 2

Amritsar Massacre

Answer 2

a slaughter of Indians by the British at a peaceful protest in 1919

Question 3

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 3

Leader of the independence movement in India

Question 4

civil disobedience

Answer 4

disobeying the law for the purpose of achieving some higher goal

Question 5

salt march

Answer 5

a march to the sea to proteset British salt tax

Question 6

congress party

Answer 6

group consisting mostly of hindus that led to campaign for india’s independence

Question 7

Muhammad Ali Jinah

Answer 7

leader of the muslim league

Question 8

Muslim league

Answer 8

muslim group led that led a campaign for india’s independence

Question 9

partition

Answer 9

division of india into 2 nations

Question 10

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer 10

first prime minister of india

Question 11

Indira Gandhi

Answer 11

daughter of Nehru who followed him as prime minister

Question 12

Benazir Bhutto

Answer 12

former prime minister of Pakistan

Question 13

Ferdinand Marcos

Answer 13

leader of the Philippines who was elected but ruled as a dictator

Question 14

corazon Aquino

Answer 14

woman who defeated Marcos in the elections of 1986

Question 15

Aung San Suu Kyi

Answer 15

daughter of Aung San winner of nobel prize for her fight for democracy in Burma

Question 16

Sukarno

Answer 16

leader of Indonesian independence movement first president of indonesia

Question 17

Suharto

Answer 17

leader who turned Indonesia into a police state