Unit 8 quiz 2

Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

• Mao Zedong

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Nelson Mandela

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

• Mao Zedong

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Nelson Mandela

A philosopher from India, this man was a spiritual and moral leader favoring India's independence from Great Britain. He practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change.

• Mao Zedong

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Nelson Mandela

South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

• Mao Zedong

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Nelson Mandela

an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations

• Indian National Congress

• Land Redistribution

• Muslim League

• NATO

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Muslim League

A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I.

• NATO

• Land Redistribution

• Indian National Congress

• Marshall Plan

a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none

• NATO

• Land Redistribution

• Indian National Congress

• Iron Curtain

an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Iron Curtain

• Muslim League

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• Land Redistribution

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Indian National Congress