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Histroty Exam

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Gamal Abdel Nasser
seized power in Eygpt, and nationalized the Suez Canal.
Kwame Khrumah
Preisdent of Ghana
Desmond Tutu
Black South African Bishop who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonvilent opposition to appartheid.
Mahmoud Abbas
was the president of the new Palestine Authority.
Ariel Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister who launched a plan to withdraw Iraeli Settlements from Gaza
Jomo Kenyetta
leading spokesperson for the Kikuyu and later became President of Kenya
Patrice Lumumba
Congo's Prime Minister who asked the Soviet Union for help to fight rebels
P.W. Botha
leader of South Africa and put the police in charge= miserable.
Saddam Hussein
seized power to become Iraq's leader. He caused trouble by seizing a disputed border region.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
led the Muslim League and demanded the creation of Packistan
Joseph Mobutu
Lumumba's rival who was supported by the U.S.
Ayatollah Khomeini
an ayatollah that condemned Western influences and drove the shah into exile.
Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli Prime Minister who signed Oslo Accord
Nelson Mendela
Africa National Congress leader who mobalized young South Africans to peacefully resist apartheid laws
President Jimmy Carter
he was president at the time and ordered "Eagle Claw"....which failed. He also organized the meeting at Camp David in which Israel and Egypt signed a peace treay.
Anwar Sadat
Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat
successor that made peace with Israel. They began leaning towards the US for aid.
Steve Biko
leader of a black movement and was placed on house arrest. He broke the ban, and was arrested and then later beat to death.
Indira Gandhi
Nehru's daughter who was elected prime minister.
Jerry Rawlings
led Ghana's last coup and then tooke over Ghana
F. W. deKlerk
South African president that ended the apartheid, freed Mandela, and allowed the ANC to continue.
Shah of Iran
the US helped the Shah remove Mosaddeq, which outraged citizens.
Nehru
India's first prime minister
Yasir Arafat
led the Palestine Liberation Organization
Slobadan Milosevic
leader of Kosovo who began opresseing Kosovar Albanians.
George H. W. Bush
formed a coalition against Iraq. He was the president at the time of this.
Menachim Begin
Israeli Prime Minister

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