Terms
What is Nationalism?
The two nations that were eventually created when Great Britain left the subcontinent.
What are India and Pakistan?
What is Communism?
Important trade route seized from Great Britain in the 1950s.
What is the Suez Canal?
Group that today populates the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Who are the Palestinians?
What is civil disobedience?
Term for Mao Zedong's push to industrialize China.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Capitalists generally promote this approach to the economy, made popular by Adam Smith in 1776.
What is a Free Market or Laissez-faire?
Policy of separation of Blacks and Whites in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
First and only female Prime Minister of Israel.
Who was Golda Meir?
What is de-colonize?
Name of the student uprising in Beijing in 1989.
What was Tiananmen Square?
Prior to colonialism, many African nations used this economic system which was heavy on trade and relied on making decisions using one's heritage.
What is a traditional economy?
Leader who was imprisoned for standing up to segregationist policies in South Africa, and later became that nation's president.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
The area around Palestine was controlled by Great Britain after WWI thanks to this international policy agreed upon by the League of Nations.
What is the Mandate System?
When a larger country takes over a colony, often for economic reasons.
What is imperialism?
Indian's marched to the sea when a tax was placed on this spice by the British.
What is salt?
Gandhi attacked the British textile industry and its financial backers when he started this movement in India.
What is the Homespun Movement?
Leader of Ghana's independence movement from Great Britain.
Who was Kwame Nkrumah?
Edict from British Parliament that recognized the right of Jews to move back to their ancestral homeland.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
Movement by Jews to repopulate the area of present day Israel and Palestine.
What is zionism?
Leader of Vietnamese nationalism after WWII.
Who is Ho Chi Minh.
This philosopher's manifesto helped launch revolutions in Russia, China and Vietnam.
Who was Karl Marx?
White South Africans.
Who are Afrikaners?
City where Jews were attacked during the 1972 Olympics.
What is Munich?