Independence Struggles in South Asia & Southeast Asia

4. This European nation held Indonesia as its colony until it dissolved its colonial control in 1954.
8. Pacifist; believed India should be home to the diverse groups in South Asia; assassinated 1948
9. Communist faction in Laos; set up a communist government in 1975
11. Military leader in Indonesia; he took power in 1968.
13. formerly "West Pakistan" this nation was created as homeland for Muslims
14. Pakistan was created as a homeland for this religious group in South Asia
17. Cambodian Communists who seized power; 1975-1979
21. Term used to describe the division of India and Pakistan in 1947
22. Popular leader who united Indonesia; was more of a dictator
23. Communist leader whose regime oversaw the deaths of over one million Cambodians
24. Burma was controlled by this European colonial power until 1948.

1. Empire that controlled India from the mid-19th century until August 1947
2. religion brought from India; widely practiced in Southeast Asia
3. The type of rule Britain had in India
5. Southeast Asian nation that has been bombed more than any other in the world; the Ho Chi Minh Trail crossed through this nation.
6. Vietnamese nationalist leader who turned to communism.
7. "1st Lady of Shoes in the Philippines"
10. Idea that if "one nations in Southeast Asia falls to communism, they all will fall"
12. Empire that occupied many territories/states in Asia from 1942-1945.
15. Religious group in India that did NOT get a nation-state; Operation Blue Star targeted political separatists from this religious group.
16. "Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia" were known by this name when they were under French colonial control.
18. President of the Philippines, 1965-1986
19. Military leader who ruled Burma, 1962-1988.
20. She received a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize; in 2020 she faced criticism for the genocide of Rohingya Muslims.