Monday, April 17, 2017

Ways of the World: Chapter 21 Summary

The End of Empire in World History

  • new forces of nationalism 
  • national self determination 
  • nation state
  • suddenly empires illegitimate
African and Asian Independence 
  • Contradictions of the colonial empires
  • a new international climate after WWII
  • new elites challenge colonial rule
Comparing freedom struggles
INDIA:
  • question "what is indian" arises
  • 1885 Indian national congress
  • impact of WWI 
  • Mohandas Gandhi's satyagraha
  • All india Muslim league in 1906
  • Muhammad ali jinnah and pakistan
  • 1947- Partition 
SOUTH AFRICA:
  • Independence but white minority rule 1910 
  • British and Boers/Afrikaners
  • mature industrial economy using low paid black labor
  • pass laws and Bantustans
  • African national congress of 1912 
  • CCP triumphant in 1949 
  • National Partys apartheid of 1948 
  • nelson mandela 
  • turn toward armed struggle in 1960s 
  • international pressure
  • 1944 elections 
  • continued violence 

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