- A -. acculturation. the process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns.
Idi Amin. Idi Amin Dada (17 August 1925 â 16 August 2003) was a repressive dictator of the African country of Uganda. The President of Tanzania at the time, Julius Nyerere, invaded Uganda to save the country from Idi Amin. Amin is famous for sending all Asians, mainly from India and Pakistan, out of Uganda.
Stalin's Rise to Power. Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili, also known as Joseph Stalin, was the 2nd leader of the Soviet Union. He was born in Gori, Georgia, into a peasant family. Both of his parents were illiterate and were born serfs at birth.