1. In 1947, India gained its independence from what country?

2. Britain

3. What 3 countries were formed when India was partitioned?

4. West Pakistan, East Pakistan, and India

5. What religious/ethnic group was to live in West and East Pakistan?

6. Muslim

7. What religious/ethnic group was to live in India?

8. Hindu

9. Today, West Pakistan is the nation of …

10. Pakistan

11. Today, East Pakistan is the nation of …

12. Bangladesh

13. He used civil disobedience and passive resistance to lead the Indian independence movement

14. Mohandus K. Gandhi

15. Organization that fought for Indian independence from Britain

16. Indian National Congress

17. First Prime Minister of India, who supported western style industrialization and wanted to end caste discrimination?

18. Jawaharlal Nehru

19. Daughter of Nehru and Prime Minister of India who helped develop a nuclear program and became friends with USSR?

20. Indira Gandhi

21. Today India is the world’s largest ….

22. Democracy

23. The right of a nation to choose its own type of government without outside influence?

24. Self-Determination

25. Which international organization signed a charter that described the right of self-determination?

26. United Nations

27. Leader of Kenya’s fight for independence ….

28. Jomo Kenyatta

29. As African nations became independent following WWII, they came under the control of these two superpower countries

30. US and USSR

31. Blacks in South Africa lived in a society that strictly segregated

32. Apartheid

33. First black President of South Africa ….

34. Nelson Mandela

35. Following WWI, the League of Nations made the territories of the Ottoman Empire into

36. Mandates

37. French mandates in the Middle East

38. Syria & Lebanon

39. British mandates in the Middle East

40. Jordan & Palestine

41. Following WWII, the mandates were granted their independence. Palestine was partitioned and a new nation-state was created

42. Israel

43. Israel is the nation-state for this religious/ethnic group

44. Jews (Judaism)

45. Today, Israel is home to the Jewish people. In what part of the world did they used to live?

46. Europe

47. This Jewish grandmother became Prime Minister of Israel. She led Israel to increase its land holdings through war.

48. Golda Meir

49. Meir rallied the Israelis to victory when the Arabs launched a surprise attack on the holiest day of the Jewish Year

50. Yom Kippur War

51. Which group of people have been displaced by the expansion of Israel?

52. Palestinians

53. Israel is allied with

54. U.S.

55. This President of Egypt established a relationship with the USSR and built the Aswan High Dam

56. Gamal Abdul Nasser