Events
The overthrow of Fulgencio Bautista at the hands of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, which gave rise to the first communist nation in the western hemisphere
What is the Cuban Revolution?
The leader of the Iranian Revolution and the man who toppled Shah Pahlavi and introduced the modern Theocracy to the country.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini
The removal of religion from formal governance
What is Secularization?
The Jewish homeland, etsablished in 1948 as part of a United Nations plan to split the Arab nation of Palestine in half
What is Israel
Pride in and loyalty to one’s nation; it motivated independence movements across Africa and Asia.
What is Nationalism
The Indian protests against the British Salt tax, led by Gandhi, in which the protesters walked over 240 miles to the sea.
What is the Salt March?
Known as the "Founding Father of the Republic of Türkiye", this man introduced westernization to his country as well as the secularization of the Islamic control of Turkey
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk? (Ataturk)
The process where non-Western societies adopt or are influenced by the cultural, social, political, and economic practices of Europe and North America
What is Westernization
One of the largest communist countries in the world, which utilized the underrepresentation of the peasants to achieve power and adopted a mixed economy to grow as an economic power.
What is China?
The process by which colonies gained independence and formed sovereign nations; it reshaped world maps after WWII.
What is Decolonization?
A location of a Chinese student-led protest to institute democratic reforms. The protest led to a massacre of roughly 2,600 people under leader Den Xiao Ping.
What is the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Leader of the African National Congress (ANC) who spent 27 years in prison for speaking out against Apartheid in South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Nonviolent refusal to follow unjust laws; Gandhi used it (Salt March) to challenge British rule.
What is Civil Disobediance
One of the world's only Theocracies that temporarily converted to westernization at the hands of their leader, Shah Pahlavi, before the Islamic revolution of 1979
What is Iran?
Full authority of a state to govern itself without external control; a core goal of decolonization movements.
What is Sovereignty
The divide between Hindu's and Muslims upon the decolonization of India, resulting in the creation of Pakistan.
What is the Partition of India?
The first leader of China after British rule and the founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Who is Mao Zedong?
Refusing to purchase goods to protest or pressure a government or company.
What is a Boycott?
This country was created as a land for muslims after the Partition.
What is Pakistan
An economy combining government planning and market mechanisms — Deng advocated combining planning with markets.
What is a Mixed economy?
A 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when both global powers housed nuclear weapons near each other's shores, is cited as the peak of the Cold War.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Indian civil rights leader who used nonviolent resistance to free his country from British Rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
Used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to violently overthrow Cuba's former leader, Batista.
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
This country adopted Secularization and a lot of Western ideals following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
What is Turkey?
When a territory becomes self-governing and free from colonial rule, examples include India (1947) and Ghana (1957).
What is Independence?