The Cold War in the Developing (Third) World

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Across
  1. 3. this economic and political "ism" gained popularity in the developing world due to a history of poverty and colonialism
  2. 4. first female Prime Minister of India, nuclear weapons for India...assassinated by her bodyguards
  3. 5. this "ism" increased as peoples resented and resisted European colonial rule
  4. 6. nationalist group in India striving for Indian independence from Britain
  5. 10. the USSR invades this Middle East/Central Asian nation in 1979...the US aids it in fighting the Soviets...but we are fighting there today :-(
  6. 11. first black president of South Africa after Apartheid
  7. 12. India's first Prime Minister upon gaining Independence in 1947
  8. 13. this body of water was "nationalized" by Nasser in 1956
  9. 14. all white rule in South Africa, similar to segregation in the US
  10. 16. new Islamic nation to emerge from India in 1947 as a homeland for the region's Muslims
Down
  1. 1. Kenyan nationalist leader during the Cold War
  2. 2. France fights a long and bloody war in this North African colony in an attempt to keep it under French control
  3. 7. nationalist movement in South Africa devoted to rights for black native South Africans
  4. 8. this violent "movement" in Kenya was aimed at driving the British out of power over the African nation
  5. 9. Egyptian Arab nationalist leader...anti-West, anti-Israel, leader of "Pan Arabism"
  6. 15. this Cambodian communist leader comes to power after the Vietnam war, 2 million killed by his Khmer Rouge