Intro to Decolonization
Methods were used to achieve decolonization
What is violence and nonviolent protest?
After being imprisoned for 20 years, he sworn in as the first black President of South Africa in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This leader promoted nonviolent resistance as a strategy for independence.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
These two parties started the Chinese Civil War.
Who are the Nationalist Army and the Red Army?
This is the name of the region currently in dispute in the Middle East.
What is Palestine?
This ideology argues that nations have the right to govern themselves.
Discriminatory Laws used to segregate black and white South Africans. Gave powers and privileges to white South Africans and took away rights from non-whites.
What is the Apartheid?
The refusal to obey certain UNFAIR laws as a peaceful form of protest, accepting the consequences that follow.
What is civil disobedience?
Mao’s movement to make China completely Communist.
Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976)
A violent militant group that was created in resistance of Israel.
Hamas
This international organization promoted decolonization after WWII.
What is United Nations?
The belief that white people are the superior race and should have all the power in society.
What is White Supremacy?
In 1947 India was formally granted this which law enforced the partition of land into two new countries: India and Pakistan.
What is Indian Independence?
Resulted in the death toll estimating from 15 to 55 million, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest or second-largest famine in human history.
The Great Leap Forward
This ideology is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland
Zionism
After getting rid of Belgian rule in the 20th century, this African country underwent an ethnic conflict that led to an ethnic genocide against a minority group.
What is Rwanda?
Political party created in 1912 that fought for the rights of black and colored South Africans and for the end of Apartheid
Who is the National African Congress (ANC)?
This 1930 protest challenged British economic control over salt.
What is the Salt March?
These were GIANT government-run farms and factories where a BUNCH of people worked AND lived together.
What are Communes?
In 1947, this event resulted in the division of British colonies into two countries: Palestine and Israel
United Nations Partition of Palestine (1947)
These are the only two African countries to never come under European control.
What is Liberia and Ethiopia?
These groups lived in Early South Africa
The Dutch (the Boers), The Zulus, The British, Indentured Servants ((Indian)
A planned campaign of systematic mass murder that occurred over 100 days in April–July 1994. In the end, approximately 800,000
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
Led the communist army through difficult terrain, increasing his popularity among the peasant population.
Who is Mao Zhedong?
This is the name of the current Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is Benjamin Netenyahu?