INDIA GAINS INDEPENDENCE (Use Pages 885-889)

INDIA GAINS INDEPENDENCE (Use pages 997-1003)

◊ In 1939 Britain sent Indians to fight in WWII without ______

◊ The British tried to gain the support of nationalists by______

◊ ◊ In the 1940’s India had ______Hindus and ______Muslims

◊ After WWII, the British government began to question the very basis of ______

◊ The massacre at Amritsar in 1919 had caused millions of Indians to become ______

◊ The ______formed in 1906 to protect Muslims. Its leader ______said that the only thing Muslims had in common with Hindus was [their] ______to the British

◊ The Muslim League proposed the ______of India into Hindu and Muslim nations. ______disagreed with this idea and was deeply hurt by it

◊ After WWII, the British were unsure who they should hand over power to. Rioting broke out between Hindus and Muslims, and in 1946 ______people died in four days. Pretty soon, the idea of partition – ______seemed unavoidable

◊ On July 16, 1947 Britain granted India and Pakistan ______in one month’s time. Millions of Hindus, Muslims and ______had to decide where they wanted to live

◊ Trainloads of refugees were ______when they tried to escape to the country in which their religion was not the minority. In all, 1 million people died. Gandhi also died when he pleaded for the fair treatment of Muslim refugees and was shot by a ______who thought Gandhi was too protective of Muslims MODERN INDIA

◊ At midnight on August 15, 1947 India became ______

◊ India’s first prime minister was ______who served for ___ years

◊ The territory of ______had a ______ruler, but a large ______population. Dispute over this region led to war a few times and today ______continue to flare along the cease-fire line of 1949

◊ Nehru did many things to move India forward, including elevating the status of the lower ______and expanding the rights of ______

◊ After Nehru’s death, his daughter ______was chosen as prime minister. She was then gunned down by two of her ______in retaliation for her ordered attack on Sikh terrorists.

◊ Indira Gandhi’s son ______was then elected. He too was killed, by a ______carried by a female terrorist from ______who opposed his policies

◊ In 1972 the independent country of ______changed its name to Sri Lanka

◊ In 1971, after a civil war, the new nation of ______was formed from East Pakistan

◊ Sri Lanka was and is split by factions. Three quarters of the people are ______. A fifth are Tamils, whose religion is ______. From 1983 to 1990, Indian troops were in Sri Lanka to ______Tamil rebels. They were unsuccessful