What Event?
Identify the 1947 event that led to the partition of British India into two independent dominions.
Partition of India
Who led nonviolent resistance campaigns and became the primary leader of Indian independence from Britain?
Mohandas Gandhi
Which 1857 uprising in India is often called the first large-scale challenge to British East India Company rule?
Sepoy Rebellion
African National Congress
This ancient trade network connected West Africa to North Africa and the Mediterranean, facilitating the exchange of gold and salt.
Trans-Saharan trade routes
This relocation to flee the Goumindang forces helped the Chinese Communist Party gain support among the peasants in rural China.
Long March (1934)
Which Kenyan leader is associated with the Mau Mau uprising and later became Kenya’s first president?
Jomo Kenyatta
What was the name of the anti-colonial guerrilla movement in Kenya during the 1950s that challenged British rule?
This was the leader of the Nationalist (Goumindang) who had to flee to Taiwan following defeat in the Chinese Civil War.
Chiang Kai Shek
Name the political and religious reform movement in 16th-century Europe that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and led to the creation of Protestant denominations.
Protestant Reformation
A day called by the All-India Muslim League general strikes and mass protests in British-ruled India to demand the creation of a separate Muslim homeland, Pakistan.
Day of Direct Action (1946)
Name the Vietnamese leader who declared independence from France in 1945 and later led North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
What 1919 massacre where British troops fired on a large peaceful gathering, intensified Indian calls for independence?
Amritsar Massacre
Name the Indian leader who led the Muslim League’s demand for a separate Muslim state and whose Lahore Resolution of 1940 influenced partition.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Identify the system used in feudal Japan in which powerful landholding lords ruled and samurai served them.
Feudal System
What 1960 phrase describes the year when a large number of African nations achieved independence from European colonial powers?
Year of Africa
Which Ghanaian leader and Pan-African advocate became the first Prime Minister and later President of independent Ghana?
Kwame Nkrumah
Which 1930s–1940s uprising in Algeria prompted a prolonged and violent war against French colonial rule
Algerian War of Independence
Who was the charismatic Egyptian leader who nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956 and became a symbol of Arab nationalism?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Which empire, centered in Constantinople, survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire and was a major Christian power until 1453?
Byzantine Empire
Identify the large-scale 1947–48 communal violence and population movement that followed partition in South Asia
Great Migration
Identify the South African leader who spent 27 years in prison before becoming president and symbolizing the end of apartheid
Nelson Mandela
At which Battle were the French defeated by the Viet Minh forces in the First Indochina War?
Dien Bien Phu (1954)
This was a global movement that advocated for eradicating the legacy of colonialism, achieving self-determination, and creating a united Africa.
Pan-Africanism
Which policy of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin prioritized rapid industrialization and collectivized agriculture, often enforced through state violence?
Collectivization