Study Guide: Decolonization and the Cold War

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Topics

_____ Indian Independence

Mohandas Gandhi

Rowlett Acts

Salt March

Partition of British India

What were the difficulties in making peace between India and Pakistan?

How/why did Bangladesh get independence from Pakistan?

_____ Decolonization in Africa

Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah’s government and why it fell

Kenya

Mau-Mau rebellion and its effects

Algeria

Resistance to French rule (NLF)

Zaire (the Congo)

Cold War effects on Africa: Assassination

Patrice Lumumba

Joseph-Desire Mobutu’s government

 Angola
Cold War effects on Africa: Proxy War

Communist and Capitalist civil war

_____ Middle East Conflict

Balfour Declaration

Establishment of Israel

Suez Crisis (1956 War)

Six-Day War

Yom Kippur War

PLO

Israeli settlements in West Bank

_____ Cold War

Partition of Germany

Containment and Brinkmanship

Berlin Airlift

Iron Curtain

Cuban Missile Crisis