Decolonization: Part 1 Flashcards
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global south
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- areas known as third world countries (underdeveloped nations)
- today known as developing countries
- looking at nations south of industrial super powers
2
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decolonization
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- global south independence form European rule
3
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challenges facing the global south after decolonization
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- the legacies of empire
- deep divisions of language, ethnicity, religion, and class
- rapidly growing populations
- competing demands of the capitalist west and the communist east
- developing economies, stable politics, and coherent nations all at the same time
4
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European view of colonies
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- mobilization of masses in European colonies around nationalistic empire, empires fall
- Christianity and material progress were being brought to areas
- increase in democratic values
- promoting national self determination
5
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within empires/colonies
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- racism
- exploitation
- poverty
- rule by dictatorship
- people denied opportunity to express national character
- leads to demise of colonies
6
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independence
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- international circumstances that led to the end of these empires
- both world wars = weakened Europe
- both world wars = discredited any sense of European moral superiority
- US and Soviet Union = new global superpowers - opposed the older European colonial empires
- United Nations = platform from which nations could express anti-colonial views
7
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by mid-20th century
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- 2nd and 3rd generation western-educated elites had arisen throughout the colonial world
- familiar with European culture and aware of the gaps between its values and its practices
- didn’t see colonial rule as a vehicle for their peoples’ progress
- increasingly insisted on independence
- veterans of the world wars
- young people with some education but no job opportunities
- urban workers = aware of their exploitation
- small-scale traders = resentful of European privileges
- rural dwellers = lost land or suffered form forced labor
- poor and insecure newcomers to the cities
8
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what have we seen repeat throughout world history
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- the rise and fall of empires
9
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in most areas of the global south
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- independence was a struggle
10
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which of the following was NOT happening within the empires of the global south
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- rise of national character
11
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what led to the demise of empires in the global south
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- war & poverty
12
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what did natives see happening in the global south
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- racialism, poverty, dictatorship, exploitation
