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TeamSpence Decoloniz
TeamSpence Decolonization
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Founder of nonalignment strategy | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Where the discussion of a "third path" an alternative to the U.S. and Soviet Union occured | Bandung Conference |
| Canada, India and Pakistan gained independence, but kept there ties with this country | Britain |
| The jewel in the crown of the British empire | India |
| Movement whos primary goal was neutrality | Nonalignment Movement |
| Issued the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence | Ho Chi Minh |
| Determined Vietnam should be divided at the seventeenth parallel | Geneva Conference |
| The British government committed itself to the support of a homeland for Jews in Palenstine | Balfour Declaration |
| Staged a coup that ended monarchy of King Farouk of Egypt | Abdel Nasser |
| Gained independence for Ghana in 1957 | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Burma and Malaysia were colonies of what country | Britain |
| Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam were colonies of what country | France |
| Indonesia was a colony of what country | Dutch |
| The Phillipines was a colony of what country | United States |
| Couldn't hold on to there colonies after WWII | Britain and France |
| France granted self government to there colonies at this time | 1956 |
| Had a free market economy | Mexico |
| Wanted to industrialize and modernize India | Juan Peron |
| Wanted to nationalize industries and banks in Chile | Salvador Allende |
| Organized the Salt March in 1929, which illustrated his belief in civil disobedience to gain freedom for India | Ghandi |
| Nationalized the Suez Canal | Nasser |
| Resisted colonization in Africa | France |
| Last colony of France to get independence | Algeria |
| The presence complicated the decolinization in Africa | White settlers |
| First Sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence | Ghana |
| Reunified China after collapse of the Qing dynasty | Mao Zedong |
| "Blackness" | Negritude |
| Urged use of violence against colonial oppressors | Frantz Fanon |
| Creation of Israel | 1948 |
| Led to self rule in India | India Act of 1935 |
| Formed by the Vietnamese nationalists to fight for freedom from South Vietnamese rule | National Liberation Front |
| His followers opposed the formation of Israel | Abdel Nasser |
| Leader of the Indian National Conference, who wanted to modernize India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Was the only white ruled country in Africa after 1980 | South Africa |
| Was established through the unification of the Boers and the British in 1910 | Union of South Africa |
| "Separateness" which was established in South Africa in 1948 | Apartheid |
| South Africa's first black president | Nelson Mandela |
| Established authoritarian rule in Iran | Reza Khan |
| Sponsored the overthrow of Mossaddeq in Iran and returned the Shah to power | United States and Great Britain |
| Negotiated Camp David Accords | Jimmy Carter |
| Israel tried to conquer these areas in 1967 | West Bank and Gaza Strip |
| Had authoritarian governments but still had close contact with capatalist nations | Latin America |
| Revolution that took place in Mexico from 1910 to 1911 | Bloody Revolution |
| Came to power in Brazil in 1929 | Getulio Vargas |
| Major exports are coffee and bananas | Guatemala |
| Had an economy based on sugar | Cuba |
| Nationalized all foreign property in Cuba and created a socialist economy based on Marxist ideas like getting rid of private property | Fidel Castro |
| A civillian government was elected in Chile | 1990 |
| Imperial powers viewed Africans were _________ of self governing | Incapable |
| The anticolonial rebellion in Kenya began in | 1947 |
| South Africans who were descended from the Dutch who settled in South Africa | Afrikaners |
| A group that overthrew the dictatorship of Nicaraguan Anastacio Somoza | Sandinistas |
| Increased suffrage and turned provincial governments over to Indian leaders | Government of India Act |
| Was divided into eastern and western regions separated by 1,000 miles of Indian territory | Pakistan |
| Religious leaders in Iran | Ayatollahs |
| Founding of Organization of African Unity | 1963 |
| Belgian Congo was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congon | 1997 |
| Crafted the "dependency" theory of economic development | Raul Prebisch |
| Banned the African National Congress | White regime |
| "Giant Step Backward" | The Great Leap Forward |
| Had to recant his criticism about Mao Zedong | Deng Xiaoping |
| Birthplace of Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | China |
| Ordered the killing of sparrows because he thought they caused bad harvests | Mao Zedong |
| Hong Kong reverted to Chinese control | 1997 |
| Nehru's daughter who became leader of the Congress Party in India | Indira Gandhi |
| Increased agricultural yields for India's population | "green revolution" |
| Place where 8 million sterilization operations were performed in 1976 and 1977 | India |
| Defeated Egypt and Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War | Israel |
| Planned the Yom Kippur attack on Israel from Egypt | Anwar Sadat |
| The right and duty to defend Islam and the Islamic community from an unjust attack | Jihad |
| Offered reconciliation to the Sikhs, had leadership in India and was assasinated by a terriorist | Rajiv Gandhi |
| 2 percent of India's population that didnt practice Hinduism | Sikhs |
| political organization that was a government for Palestinians displaced from Israel | Palestinian Liberation Organization |
| "shirtless ones" | descamisados |
| Nickname for Eva Peron | "Santa Evita" |
| Created by states that recognized problems and attempted to prevent conflicts in Africa | The Organization of African Unity |
| A mixture of Catholicism and Marxism popular in Latin America | "liberation theology" |
| President of Costa Rica who promoted a negotiated end to the Contra war in Nicaragua | Oscar Arias Sanchez |
| Imposed a two year ban on all military aid to the Contras in 1984 | U.S. Congress |
| Began to dismantle the apartheid system in Africa with help from the National Party | F.W. de Klerk |
| Burma was a colony of what country? | Britain |
| T or F: Laos was a colony of France and gained there independence in 1948 | False, Laos was a colony of France, but they gained their independence in 1949 |
| Indonesia was a colony of who? | The Dutch |
| T or F: Vietnam was a colony of Britain | False, Vietnam was a colony of France |
| Malaysia was a colony of what country? | Britain |
| T or F: After WWII the British and French were able to hold on to their colonies | False, they couln't hold on to their colonies because of the devastation of WWII |
| T or F: Kashmir was the only mostly Muslim state to remain in India | True because they had a Hindu leader |
| T or F: The U.S. paid Israel when they gave back the Suez Canal and the Sinai penninsula | True, the U.S. gave Israel 1 billion dollars |
| T or F: Argentina supported the Allies during WWII | False, they supported the Axis |
| After the Allied victory of WWII new countries were formed in Africa, South Asia and ????? | South East Asia |
| Belgium didnt want to help the colony of _____________ prepare for freedom | Congo |
| How many people were white in South Africa in the late 1900's | 1/5 |
| T or F: After the 1970's both Africa and Latin America faced crises | True: foreign debts, falling commodity prices, and rising import costs |
| Orginal name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Belgian Congo |
| T or F: Under President Jimmy Carter, U.S. cold war policies in Latin America moderated | True |
| T or F: Saddam Hussein was once the president of Iraq | True |
| Controlled conservative governments in Mexico and acted harshly and experimented with various economic strategies | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Iran-Iraq War | 1980 to 1988 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of _______________ in the world | popluation growth |
| T or False: Nelson Mandela has been to jail | True, he was capture and sentenced to life in prison |
| T or False: During apartheid there were designated homelands for black and colored citizens | True they were classified according to a variety of ethnic identifications |
| T or False: Gandhi believed in using violence to solve problems | False, Gandhi believed in nonviolence |
| Occurred in China from 1958 to 1961 | The Great Leap Forward |
| Africa accounts for ____ percent of the worlds industrial output | 1% |
| Most sub-Saharan African states had governments that had a dictorial one-_____ rule | Party |
| Optimism in Africa after WWII faded or increased | Faded |
| Hundreds of priests in Latin America were assasinated for preaching the message of | Liberation |
| T or F: The growth in industry in South Africa opened new jobs for blacks | True, allowing them the possibility of a change in status |
| The U.S. sent ____ to Nicaraguea and Honduras for defense against communism | Arms |
| T or F: The British couln't adjudicate the competing claims of the Arabs and Jews in Palestine | True |
| _____ was split up after a truce went into effect in 1949 | Palestine |
| _____ strengthened the desire of the Jews to build their own state | The Holocaust |
| In the 1950's the influence of large imperial powers increased leading to a delay in ________ | Decolonization |
| T or F: Gaining independence was done with nonviolence in Kenya | False |
| Mao Zedong was _______ | Communist |
| Arab lands shared a common language and ______ | Religion |
| Expanded the nations war on terror | President George W. Bush |
| T or F: After WWII all colonies were granted freedom | FALSE!!! |
| Latin American nations were dependent on export trade and _______ investment | Foreign |
| Nelson Mandela was released from jail | 1990 |
| Muslims were a minority in ______ | India |
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