Chapter 34

Question 1

Initials of the leading nationalist party in India.

Answer 1

INC

Question 2

Leading Indian Islamic party founded in 1906.

Answer 2

Muslim League

Question 3

Leader of Muslim India in the early 1900s.

Answer 3

Jinnah

Question 4

One of two major religious groups in India before WW II.

Answer 4

Hindu

Question 5

One of two major religious groups in India before WW II.

Answer 5

Muslim

Question 6

This would partition into Muslim India after 1947.

Answer 6

Pakistan

Question 7

This portion of India is still a divided issue in contemporary Indian/Pakistani politics today.

Answer 7

Kashmir

Question 8

Father and first prime minister of India in 1947.

Answer 8

Nehru

Question 9

Became leader of India in 1966 who later was gunned down by Sikh radicals. (first and last names)

Answer 9

Indira Gandhi

Question 10

Both India and Pakistan have these types of weapons today.

Answer 10

Nuclear

Question 11

Formerly known as East Pakistan, this province split from Pakistan to form a new county in 1971.

Answer 11

Bangladesh

Question 12

Woman leader of Pakistan in the 1970s and again in the 1990s.

Answer 12

Bhutto

Question 13

These people are rebels in Sri Lanka.

Answer 13

Tamils

Question 14

Island nation off the southern coast of India.

Answer 14

Sri Lanka

Question 15

This US territory gains its independence in 1947.

Answer 15

Philippines

Question 16

He was the corrupt leader of the Philippines in the 1960s-1980s.

Answer 16

Marcos

Question 17

This naval base in the Philippines was critical for US involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s.

Answer 17

Subic bay

Question 18

This woman became the first female leader in Philippine history.

Answer 18

Aquino

Question 19

This was a rebel Muslim group in the Philippines.

Answer 19

MNLF

Question 20

Aung San Suu Kyi was the democracy advocate in this country in the 1980s-2000s.

Answer 20

Burma

Question 21

World strategic Asian port with one of the world’s strongest economies in the 1990s.

Answer 21

Singapore

Question 22

Former Dutch colony that gained its independence after world war II.

Answer 22

Indonesia

Question 23

General Suharto led a military coup of this country in the 1960s.

Answer 23

Indonesia

Question 24

This Indonesian province gained its independence in 2002.

Answer 24

East Timor

Question 25

The Negritude Movement celebrated ____ culture, heritage, and values.

Answer 25

African

Question 26

The first former British colony to achieve independence in sub-Saharan Africa was ____.

Answer 26

Ghana

Question 27

First president of independent Kenya.

Answer 27

Kenyatta

Question 28

Ahmed Ben Bella was the first president of this North African country.

Answer 28

Algeria

Question 29

Mobutu Sese Seko was the army officer to gain control of this former Belgian colony.

Answer 29

Congo

Question 30

Congo was formerly known as _____ in the 1960s-1990s.

Answer 30

Zaire

Question 31

The communist MPLA attempted to control with county in the 1970s-2000s.

Answer 31

Angola

Question 32

A great genocide occurred in the 1994 in this central African nation.

Answer 32

Rwanda

Question 33

This is the Jewish state in the Middle East.

Answer 33

Israel

Question 34

These people claim the right to the land of Israel.

Answer 34

Palestinians

Question 35

This was a political movement to find a homeland for the Jewish people.

Answer 35

Zionist

Question 36

This declaration called creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine while protecting the “rights of existing non-Jewish communities.”

Answer 36

Balfour

Question 37

He announced the creation of Israel on May 14, 1948.

Answer 37

Gurion

Question 38

Between the creation of Israel and 1973, Arab states invaded Israel ____ times.

Answer 38

Four

Question 39

The 1956 Suez Crisis originated from the desire by Egypt to build a dam at ____.

Answer 39

Aswan

Question 40

In 1967, Arabs attacked Israel in the _____ war which was a devastating loss for the Arabs.

Answer 40

Six day

Question 41

Woman leader of Israel. (first and last name)

Answer 41

Golda Meir

Question 42

Egyptian leader during the Yom Kippur War.

Answer 42

Sadat

Question 43

Leader of the PLO in Palestine in the 1960s-1980s.

Answer 43

Arafat

Question 44

The ______ Accords established a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1979.

Answer 44

Camp david

Question 45

Palestinian uprisings in the 1980s-2000s.

Answer 45

Intifada

Question 46

Benjamin Netanyahu was a leader of the is country.

Answer 46

Israel

Question 47

Most holy city in all the middle east occupied by Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

Answer 47

Jerusalem

Question 48

Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are collectively called the ______ Republics.

Answer 48

Central asian

Question 49

This isolated country has struggled to remain independent for hundreds of years.

Answer 49

Afghanistan

Question 50

The Mujahideen fought the _____ for nearly ten years in the 1980s in Afghanistan.

Answer 50

Soviets

Question 51

Conservative Muslim group that fought against Soviets and the American Soldiers in Afghanistan for 30 years.

Answer 51

Taliban

Question 52

Osama bin Ladin’s terrorist organization.

Answer 52

al Qaeda

Question 53

Infamous terrorist attack on the United States in 2001.

Answer 53

September 11