Unit 8:

Question 1

Pol Pot

Answer 1

• genocide against his Cambodian people as he tried to impose brutal rule

Question 2

Jomo Kenyatta

Answer 2

• leader of Kenya from independence

- first president of Kenya

Question 3

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 3

• political and spiritual leader during India’s struggle with UK for home rule
• advocate for passive resistance

Question 4

Jawahatlal Nehru

Answer 4

• first prime minister of India

- central figure in Indian politics before and after independence

Question 5

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Answer 5

• founder of Pakistan

Question 6

Indira Gandhi

Answer 6

• Indian political leader

- female prime minister

Question 7

Rajiv Gandhi

Answer 7

• son of Indira and took over prime minister of India after her assassination

Question 8

Kwame Nkrumah

Answer 8

• led Ghana to independence from the UK in 1957

- first prime minister and president of Ghana

Question 9

Nelson Mandela

Answer 9

• leading member of the African National Congress

- opposed apartheid

Question 10

F. W De Klerek

Answer 10

• south african politician who was the country’s president; 7th ruler

Question 11

Trade Sanctions

Answer 11

Trade penalty imposed by one or more nations

Question 12

Amritsar Massacure

Answer 12

Killing by UK troops of nearly 400 Indian’s gathered at Amritsar to protest Rowlat acts

Question 13

Pan Africanism

Answer 13

The principle or advocacy of the political union of all indigenous habits of Africa

Question 14

Apartheid

Answer 14

South African policy of complete legal separation of the races also banning of social connections between blacks and whites

Question 15

Aung San Suu Kyi

Answer 15

• fought for democracy in Burma

- won the nobel peace prize for peace