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What distinguished the end of Europe's African and Asian colonial empires in the second half of the twentieth century from other cases of imperial distegration? |
The mobilization of the masses around a nationalist ideology |
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In contrast ti the first decolonization if the Americas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the struggles for independence in Africa amd Asia in the second half of the twentieth century |
Affirmed the vitality of precolonial cultures |
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What represented a fundamental contradiction that undermined the colonial enterprise in the second half of the twentieth century |
The ideal of national self-determination was at odds with the denial of Independence to colonies |
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What changes in the international arena in the second half of the twentieth century contributed to the end of European colonial rule |
The United Nations provided an international platform from which to conduct anticolonial agitation |
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What was a social or economic circumstances within the European colonies that contributed to anticolonial movements |
The growing number of Western-educated colonial elites who no longer viewed colonial rule as a vehicle for their people's progress |
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What was an initial goal of the Indian National Congress |
Gaining positions of influence in British India to protect Indian interest |
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In contrast to Indians' struggle for independence in the twentieth century, black South African's struggle for control of their country was |
Waged against an internal community of permanent white settlers who controlled the country |
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How did the system of appartheid in south Africa come to an end |
Through negotiations between the white South African government and black South africans nationalist leaders |
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In Africa in the early 1980 what happened to the political parties that had led the movements for independence from colonial ruke |
Most were soon swept away by military coups |
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In africa wjat contributed to the loss of popular support for the Democratic institutions established in the wake of Independence from colonial rule |
Poor economic performance |
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What accounts for the resurgence of democracy in many developing countries in the decades since the 1980s |
The failure of authoritarian governments to address economic and social problems |
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What characterizes the economic strategy of most countries in developing world since the late twentieth century |
Dependence on the market to generate economic growth |
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What grouo of developing countries has been the mist successful in stimulating economic growth and industrialization in the late twentieth century |
East Asian countries |
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The reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey in the early twentieth century |
Removed Islam from public life |
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What resulted from the so-called White Revolution of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran |
Discontent and resentment that paved the way for an Isalmic revolution |
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What reflects a task of newly independent nation-states in the aftermath of decolonization in Africa and Asia in the second half of the twentieth century |
The building of modern economies, stable politics, and coherent nations |
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What countries became a new nation-state in the late 1940 |
Israel |
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What represented a form of imperialism without territorial possession that came under attack in the twentieth century |
U.S influence in Larin America |
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What was a common characteristics of the leaders of Independence movements in European colonies in European colonies in Asia and African in the second half of the twentieth century |
They were educated |
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What did all nationalist movements in Asia and Africa in the second half of the twentieth century share in common |
The goal of political independence |
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What served as a unifying factor in South Asia before British colonial rule |
Geography |
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In contrast to previous foreign rulers in India, the Bristish were only ones to |
Never assimilate into Indian Society |
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What characterized Mohandas Gandhi's agenda in India's struggle for independence |
A nostalgia return to pre-industrial society composed of self - sufficient villages |
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What groups favored a broad alliance of everyone opposed to apartheid regardless of race |
The African National Congress |
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What describes a feature of the strategy of the African National Congress in their resistance to the South African government from 1950 to 1994 |
Non - violent civil disobedience against apartheid |
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What gov. Launched a revolutionary but short-lived program to achieve a peaceful transition to socialism in the early 1970s |
Chile under Salavador Allende |
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In the Global South, what was the standard by which people measured and granted legitimacy to their government |
Economic development |
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What describes how the Ayatollah Khomeini viewed the revolution he had launched in Iran |
As a model for other Isalmic countries to follow |
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What exercised the dominant power in the new government established in the wake of the Iranian revolution |
Islamic clerics |
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In the partiton of British India in 1947, why was pakistan made up of two regions flanking India |
The two regions were populated mostly by Muslims |
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The reflects Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's view of the caliphate |
"...it would be in contradiction to the independence of the state, to the sovereignty of the people..." |
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What reflects the Ayatollah Khomeini's view of the relationship between religion amd politics |
"Islamic government is the government of divine right, amd its law cannot be changed, modified, or contested" |
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Who would most disagree wih the Ayatollah Khomeini's opinion that "the ludicrous" use of the Western hat stands in the way of our independence and is contrary to the will of Allah |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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What is this poster os a direct reference to the African National Congress |
The flag in front |
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Which country is represented by the B-52 depicted in the Vitnamese poster |
The united states |
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The fruit on the left side of this poster suggest about Palestinian goals in the contested territories between Israel and Palestine |
To peacefully reclaim the land Palestinian and once farmed |
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Of the various struggles for political independence from foreign domination portrayed in the visual sources, which group is still group to reclaim the land they once held |
The Palestinians |
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The maps of Africa above best explain what about African history in the twentieth century |
Why African state - building efforts have been hindered by the persistence of political boundaries inherited from the colonial era |
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"We shall not repeat the past. We shall eradicate it by restoring out rights in the Suez Canal. This money is ours. The canal is the property of Egypt. The quotation above by the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser best expresses support for |
Nationalism |
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Nationalist leaders in Africa and Asia, such as Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), jomo Kenyatta (1894-1978) and Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), had which of the following in common? |
Opposition to colonial rule |
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The development of Mohandas Gandi's political philosophy was shaped by his |
Experience with racial discrimination in South Africa |
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Anticolonial movements like the Congress Party in India and the Young Turks agreed on what |
The need for reform in order to resist European imperialism |
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Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandi both appealed what as a base of supports |
Peasants |
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Political stability in Sub-saharan Aftica after 1960 was often hindered by |
Internal ethnic and tribal conflicts as a result of arbitrary colonial boundaries |
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What statements about Africa after 1946 is true |
Most African colonies gained national independence |
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The shaded areas on the map of South Africa indicates |
The reserves, sometimes called Bantustans or African "homelands" |
