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33 Cards in this Set
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decolonization
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the winning of independence by colonies
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Mohandas Ghandi
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leader of Indian nationalists, en-couraged passive resistance against the British colonialists
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Kwame Nkrumah
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used strikes and non-violent protests to pressure into granting Ghana it's freedom
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Jomo Kenyatta
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mistaken for being responsible for Mau Mau rebellion; thrown in jail for 9 years; won presidency
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Sekou Toure
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leader of Guinea, chose complete independence from France
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Patrice Lumumba
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elected premier of Congo; country immediately thrown into turmoil due to army mutiny
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Nelson Mandela
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led fight against apartheid (racial separation)
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Nnamdi Azikiwe
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first leader of independant Nigeria movement, supported Biafran Secession
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Leopold Senghor
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prizewinning poet of african traditions
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wole spyinka
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first american to win nobel peace prize in literature
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fidel castro
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dictator of cuba
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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leader of American civil rights movement
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john glenn
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first man to orbit the earth
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neal armstrong
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first man to walk on the moon
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the ayatollah
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religious leader of Iran; took u.s. citizens hostage
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memmi's theory
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imperial colonialism is bad for everyone
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how memmi's theory hurt europians?
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because they knew it was wrong and had to live with the guilt
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how memmis theory hurt africans
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the africans people who's land was colonised
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De Gaulle's 2 options
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remain independent with representation in French assemble and have France write their foreign Polocy OR
be completly independent with no ties to France |
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Apartheid
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policy of racial separation and excluding black native Africans from rights/jobs
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Pan Africanism
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movement to unify all african people (failed)
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and what the europeans did (in referance to Pan Africanism)
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encouraged differences between tribes to keep africans from joining together against the europeans
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biafran secession and how it happened
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musilms attack christian Igbo people and kill 10,000 of them
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desertification
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spread of the dessert due to overusing oil
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salk vaccine
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prevents polio
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describe the 3 assassinations
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president kennedy, martin luther king, jr. and presidential candidate robert kennedy
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who captured berlin after WWII
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the soviet army
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how east germans kept people from escaping
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the berlin wall
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how many people died trying to escape
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80 people
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when did the wall come down
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1989
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how did the watergate scandal end nixon's career?
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democratic party headquarters broken into trail leads to white house, nixon refuses to hand over secret audio tapes then hands over only half; people cry out for empeachment, he resigns
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after the berlin airlift, how did germany and berlins status change
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Germany'sstatus changed, east germany became communist and went germany became a free country. The rold of Berlin now was a political battle ground
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describe the 4 routes of independence taken by African nations and give an example of #1
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1) The constitutional route - nonviolent demand for freedom, 2)the rebellous to legal route - rebellion delays independence, 3) the French give their colonies a choice, 4) and the violent route. example of 1) = nbrumal used strikes and nonviolent protests to to get freedom from the british for Ghana
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