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