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- 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.
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- 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.