Chapter 18 - Relations With Indigenous Peoples

Question 1

Where did B think there was going to be civil war?

Answer 1

Ireland

Question 2

What was the religious divide between Protestants and Catholics going to stop?

Answer 2

1912/13 Home Rule Bill

Question 3

In 1914 who refused the Home Rule Bill?

Answer 3

Soldiers at Curragh

Question 4

What happened during the war?

Answer 4

Home Rule suspended
Sinn Fein organised unsuccessful rising in Dublin at Easter

Question 5

What did Sinn Fein do when there were delays to the Irish Home Rule?

Answer 5

Established an Irish assembly
Declared an Irish Republic
Irish Republican Army (IRA) began guerrilla war against B

Question 6

What were the B Royal Irish Constabulary soldiers called?

Answer 6

‘Black and Tans’

Question 7

When did the conflict end?

Answer 7

1921
With Anglo-Irish Treaty
Created Irish Free State as Dominion

Question 8

Who refused to accept the Treaty?

Answer 8

Eamon de Valera - principal Irish leader
Wanted a Republic + didn’t want to split the country

Question 9

What did this bring?

Answer 9

Further civil war - ended 1923

Question 10

What was Southern Ireland treated as?

Answer 10

A Dominion
Equality of status in 1931 Statute of Westminster

Question 11

What did Valera do after this?

Answer 11

Still not satisfied
Protests continued
Turned Ireland into a Republic - called Eire

Question 12

What did Eire do in WW2?

Answer 12

Was neutral
1948 separated itself entirely from B in Republic of Ireland Act

Question 13

What did this show?

Answer 13

B imperialism could be successfully challenged

Question 14

Who helped encourage uprisings in India?

Answer 14

Irish Republicans
Germans
Turkish

Question 15

What were the failed attempts at provoking a mutiny in the B Indian Army?

Answer 15

1915 Ghadar Conspiracy + Singapore Mutiny
7 day mutiny of Indian sepoys against B in Singapore

Question 16

What evoked further protests?

Answer 16

1919 Govt of India Act
Didn’t satisfy nationalist demands

Question 17

What did the fear of further uprisings lead to?

Answer 17

1919 Rowlatt Acts
Allowed political cases to be tried without juries
Produced extreme tension

Question 18

What happened in the Amritsar massacre?

Answer 18

B Indian Army troops opened fire on 1000s of people who had gathered in the city of Amritsar for protest but some to celebrate Sikh New Year

Question 19

What did the Indian Congress Politicians say about the B afterwards?

Answer 19

They had no moral authority to rule

Question 20

What happened in the Chauri Chauri incident of 1922?

Answer 20

Police opened fire on protester in non cooperation movement
Demonstrators set fire to police station
3 civilians + 23 police killed
INC stopped non cooperation movement after

Question 21

When did India get ind?

Answer 21

1947
400,000 died leading up to this

Question 22

What was the widespread civil disobedience in Egypt?

Answer 22

Rioting, strikes
Attacks on B military bases
Egyptian villages were burnt
Railways destroyed

Question 23

Who participated?

Answer 23

All classes of society
Men + women
Christian + Muslim

Question 24

What report granted Egypt ind?

Answer 24

Milner report
But B kept troops in Suez area

Question 25

In Palestine who started war against The B and Arabs?

Answer 25

Stern Gang
Open conflict that B couldn’t control
Handed it over to UN

Question 26

What influenced people’s willingness to have a colonial identity?

Answer 26

How well they were treated by the B

Question 27

What were examples of people celebrating their colonial identity?

Answer 27

Support in wars
George VI Coronation broadcast
Empire Day + Festivals
Christmas message
Many nationalist leaders tempered political demands with expressions of loyalty to B Crown

Question 28

What helped develop nationalist movements?

Answer 28

Education
Economic development
Spread of communication
Collapse of European Empires
Example of Ireland

Question 29

Who had a different view to Ghandi on India’s future?

Answer 29

Nehru
Wanted Modernisation + industrialisation

Question 30

What did Nehru do?

Answer 30

Joined INC
Imprisoned during anti-salt tax campaign
Reluctantly supported ‘Quit India’
Became 1st Indian PM at independence

Question 31

Who didn’t accept Ghandi’s views?

Answer 31

‘Untouchables’ leader Ambedkar
Didn’t like Ghandi’s refusal to reject the caste system - even though he said equality for all

Question 32

Who was Nehru’s rival for leadership of the Congress Party?

Answer 32

Subhas Chandra Bose
Wanted INC to be more militant
Allied himself with Germany + Japan + formed Indian National Army

Question 33

What did Jinnah lead?

Answer 33

1906 All India Muslim League
Became more militant
He helped create Pakistan

Question 34

Why did this weaken nationalism in India?

Answer 34

They all didn’t have a collective aim to fight the B with

Question 35

What did political activists in Africa form due to lack of representation?

Answer 35

National Congress of West Africa 1919
Supported by the educated
But their requests were initially ignored

Question 36

What was founded in 1925?

Answer 36

The West African Students’ Union
Included Azikiwe + Nkrumah

Question 37

What happened from WW2 to accelerate nationalism?

Answer 37

Economic development
Pan African Congress - called for ‘autonomy + independence’ of black Africa

Question 38

What did Harry Thuku do in East Africa?

Answer 38

Developed 1st East African political protest movements
Made : Young Kikuyu, East African Association, Kenya African Study Union - became Kenya African Union

Question 39

Who became the Kenya African Union’s leader in 1947 + helped decolonisation?

Answer 39

Jomo Kenyatta