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27 Cards in this Set
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French Union - colonial representation in French parliament |
1946 |
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One of the first signs of colonial unrest, in Accra in the Gold Coast |
1948 |
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Algerian War |
1954-62 |
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Violent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya |
1952 |
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Union of South Africa - Independence from the UK |
1910 |
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South Africa ruled by Afrikaners - apartheid: racism institutionalised |
1948 |
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Uprising in Soweto (outside Johannesburg): beginning of the end of Apartheid |
1976 |
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Segregational laws begin to be repealed (e.g. the ban of mixed marriages) |
Late 1970s and 1980s |
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Countries such as US tighten sanctions |
1986 |
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End of Apartheid, lift on African National Congress (ANC) ban |
1990 |
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Mandela president |
1994 |
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Sierra Leone Civil War |
1991-2002 |
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Rwandan Genocide |
100 days in 1994 |
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African Conference decides Organisation for African Unity (OAU) is preferable to a federation |
1963 |
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Portuguese PM Caetano is overthrown by military coup, leading to the transfer of powers to Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola |
1964 |
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African continent transitions from Western political and economic influence to being a platform for East-West superpower proxy conflicts |
1970s-80s |
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Ogaden War Somalia attacks Ethiopia |
1977-78 Attack in 1977 |
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Indian independence, violent partition |
1947 |
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Beginning of First Indochina War |
1946 |
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Bandung Conference |
1955 |
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Revival of Non-Aligned Movement |
1970 |
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Iranian and Turkish crises first bring the Cold War into the Middle East |
1946 |
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Suez Crisis |
1956 |
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US intervention in Lebanon |
1958 |
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Beginning of Angolan Civil War |
1975 |
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John Gaddis on Washington-Moscow approach to "Third" World |
1997 |
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John Darwin |
1988 |
