front 1 Boycott | back 1 A refusal to buy or use goods and services. |
front 2 Sovereignty | back 2 country being independent A state, territory or other political body that governs itself; independence from outside control. |
front 3 partition | back 3 dividing; change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland by some community. |
front 4 protest | back 4 the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval; designed to achieve policy change |
front 5 minority | back 5 A racial or ethnic group smaller than and differing from the majority race or ethnicity in a particular area or region.Mart |
front 6 Indian National Congress (INC) | back 6 a political party in India with widespread roots and movement founded
in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government and gain
sovereignty (independence). |
front 7 Civil Disobedience | back 7 A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws. |
front 8 Self-determination | back 8 the right of people to choose their own form of government; the freedom to make decisions for oneself without external pressure or influence. |
front 9 The Rowlett Act of 1919 | back 9 Worried about Indian upheaval: The British government passed this
act; gave enormous powers to the police to arrest any person without
any reason whatsoever. |
front 10 Salt March | back 10 an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India. |
front 11 Homespun Movement | back 11 protest in India lead by Ghandi, against British goods; Indians stopped wearing clothes made from British cloth and started making their own |
front 12 Muslim League | back 12 organization formed by Muslims in 1906 to protect their interests against British Rule. concerned with protecting Muslim rights and interests and feared an independent government dominated by the Hindus. The league wanted to partition British India into separate Hindu and Muslim states. |
front 13 Mohandas Gandhi | back 13 Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. After being educated as a lawyer in England, he returned to India and became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920. |
front 14 Muhammad Jinnah | back 14 A lawyer, politician and statesman, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as leader of the Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence on 14 August 1947, and as Pakistan's first Governor-General from independence until his death |
front 15 Zionism | back 15 A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
front 16 UN General Assembly Resolution 181 | back 16 - UN proposal to partition Palestine into two sovereign territories, one for Arabs and one for Jews |
front 17 Non-alignment | back 17 Resistance to side with one nation/force. Ex: India did not take a side during the Cold War. |
front 18 Segregation | back 18 Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences |
front 19 dismantle | back 19 to take apart |
front 20 Balfour Declaration | back 20 British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI |
front 21 17th Parallel | back 21 The DMZ-Demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam after the French ended war. |
front 22 Ho Chi Minh | back 22 950s and 60s; communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable |
front 23 Partition of India | back 23 After gaining independence from Great Britain in 1947, India was separated into two countries Pakistan for Muslims and India for Hindus; led to conflict as well as population displacement and resettlement |