South Africa
What is apartheid?
It is the policy of "apartness"
Legal, institutionalized racism and segregation in South Africa.
Was Jawaharlal Nehru in favor of or against partition?
against
List 3 other genocides we've learned about so far this year.
Holocaust, Holodomor, Armenian Genocide
What year did the Cold War end?
1991
Sun Yat-Sen
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Leader of the ANC.
Anti-apartheid leader.
Went to jail for 27 years.
Became president of South Africa in 1994.
Was Muhammad Ali Jinnah in favor of or against partition?
in favor
Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge that started the Cambodian Genocide?
Pol Pot
What is containment?
Which person took over the KMT when Sun Yat-Sen died and fought Mao during the Civil War?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Who is Desmond Tutu?
Anti-Apartheid leader.
Bishop.
Gave speeches internationally.
Encouraged divestment.
Name one action taken by Gandhi in his struggle to decolonize India:
Salt March
Swadeshi Movement
hunger strikes
Who were the two main groups involved in the Rwandan Genocide?
Hutus and Tutsis
What was the Iron Curtain?
It was an imaginary line that divided democratic West and Communist East.
Who won the Chinese Civil War?
Mao Zedong and the Communists
Why is the Sharpeville Massacre important?
Turning point - this is when the ANC chose to use violence if necessary to achieve their goals.
What was the purpose of the Rowlatt Act?
To keep the British government in power.
Banned meetings and could arrest anyone for any reason.
To stop nationalism.
Why did the Khmer Rouge start a genocide on the people of Cambodia?
They felt that Cambodia was becoming too westernized, since it was right next to Vietnam and there was US influence in Vietnam.
What does detente mean?
Easing of tensions
After the tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US and Soviet Union entered a period of detente in the 1970s, but gave it up in the 1980s.
What were the goals of the Cultural Revolution?
Get rid of the four olds.
Remind people of how great communism was!
Make the culture all about communism.
What is Pan-Africanism?
the belief that all Africans should unify and gain freedom from colonial powers.
India was divided into 3 territories. What were they?
OR
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Why did the Rwandan Genocide start (and who was it started by?)
When the Belgian colonial powers were in charge, they treated the Tutsi better and discriminated against the Hutus. The Hutus resented that and started killing the Tutsi.
Explain Gorbachev's policies Glasnost and Perestroika.
Glasnost: Openness, political freedoms
Perestroika: Restructuring (the economy)
What happened at Tiananmen Square and why?
Students were protesting censorship, demanding more political freedoms, and claiming that their education did not prepare them to compete in a capitalist world.
Deng Xiaopeng had his military shoot into the crowd.