Algeria
What year did France invade Algeria?
1830
What do we call resistance through language, clothing, art, and story?
Cultural resistance
Which Southeast Asian country fought France then the US for independence?
Vietnam
Colonizers often claim they are “bringing” what to justify conquest?
Civilization / progress
“They attacked us because they hate progress.”
colonizer
What date marks the official beginning of the Algerian liberation war?
November 1, 1954
What did Indigenous people in North America preserve secretly despite residential schools?
Their languages
What uprising in Kenya challenged British rule?
Mau Mau
What tactic uses fear + doubt to weaken unity among the colonized?
Divide and rule
“Our land was taken. We had no choice but to fight.”
resistance
What was the main liberation organization leading the fight?
FLN
What Palestinian textile tradition maps identity & memory through patterns?
Tatreez / embroidery
What term describes small surprise attacks vs a stronger army?
Guerrilla warfare
Name three examples colonizers destroyed or hid so future generations would not see the truth of what happened.
archives / photographs / documents
“We conquered them for their own benefit.”
colonizer
What city was the center of the FLN’s urban guerrilla campaign in the 1950s?
Algiers
What anti-colonial form of resistance keeps history alive even if the colonizers burn archives?
oral storytelling / oral tradition
Which South American revolutionary said “Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome”?
Che Guevara
What is it called when the colonizer’s story becomes seen as the “official” version of history?
rewriting the narrative
"Our identity is a weapon they cannot disarm.”
resistance
What film (1966) used real Algerian non-actors to tell the story of the revolution?
The Battle of Algiers
What is it called when banned books or poems circulate secretly among a population?
Underground literature / samizdat
What kind of warfare did the FLN use in cities like Algiers to challenge a much stronger French military?
urban guerrilla warfare
In Europe, what were the staged displays called where colonizers put people from Africa or Asia into fake “native villages” to show them as primitive?
colonial exhibitions / “human zoos”
“Freedom is not given. It is taken.”
resistance