Apartheid
What year did the formal implementation of apartheid policies begin in South Africa?
1948
In which year did India gain independence through peaceful negotiation, led by figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru?
1947
Response to the Holocaust and Zionist aspirations for a Jewish homeland. Contributed to tensions in the Middle East.
The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948
Soviet Stance Emphasis on state control and communal ownership.
Collectivism
Wall dividing East and West Berlin (1961-1989). Represented Cold War division and suppression.
The Berlin Wall
Who was the iconic South African leader and anti-apartheid activist who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the nation's first black president?
Nelson Mandela
What leader played a pivotal role in India's struggle for independence, employing nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to secure freedom from British colonial rule in 1947?
Gandhi
Irregular warfare using small groups to conduct surprise attacks. Viet Cong in Vietnam, Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Guerrilla Warfare
Leader of Ghana; advocate for African unity and pan-Africanism.
Kwame Nkrumah
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, first black president of South Africa. Spent 27 years in prison for activism.
Nelson Mandela
Identity documents that Black South Africans were required to carry.
South African Passbooks
Which Kenyan uprising group was a key event in the fight for Kenya's independence from British rule, which was ultimately achieved in 1963?
Mau Mau uprising
What term is commonly used to describe the geopolitical and ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that dominated world affairs from the end of World War II until the early 1990s
The Cold War
Mao Zedong's campaign for rapid economic and social transformation (1958-1962).
China's Great Leap Forward
as a protest against British salt taxes in India.
Salt March (1930)
In 1976, a protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans in schools led to a tragic event known as?
Soweto Uprising
Algeria fought a war of independence against which European colonial power, ultimately gaining sovereignty in 1962 after a protracted conflict led by the National Liberation Front (FLN)?
france
What military alliance, formed in 1949, was a key component of the United States' strategy during the Cold War, designed to counter the influence of the Soviet Union in Europe?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
U.S. economic aid for post-WWII European recovery.
The Marshall Plan
Bandung Conference (1955):
Meeting of Asian and African nations.
International Response Question: During the apartheid era, many countries imposed economic sanctions on South Africa to protest against racial discrimination. What term is commonly used to describe this coordinated effort?
Anti Apartheid Movement
Who became the first President of Ghana after leading the country to independence from British colonial rule in 1957?
Kwame Nkrumah
What are the two primary methods employed during the process of decolonization?
peaceful negotiations and armed struggle
Leader of North Vietnam with the goal of Independence from French colonial rule, opposition to U.S. intervention.
Ho Chi Minh
Ideology of Unification in North Africa and Middle East
Advocacy for regional unity based on shared Islamic identity