Unit 3: Third World Independence Flashcards
Coup d’etat
Forcible overthrow of a government
Civil Disobedience
The refusal to obey unjust laws
Imperialism
Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
Nationalism
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
Colonialism
The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.
Collectivism
The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it. the theory and practice of the ownership of land and the means of production by the people or the state.
Communes
In communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together
Great Leap Forward
A Chinese Communist program from 1958 to 1960 to boost farm and industrial output that failed miserably
Cultural Revolution
A Chinese Communist program in the late 1960s to purge China of non-revolutionary tendencies that caused economic and social damage.
Partitition
A division into pieces
To divide (a country or territory) into separate, usually differing political entities.
Non-Alignment
Political and diplomatic independence from both Cold War powers
Indochina
a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
Zionism
A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Mandate
Temporary control given over an area until it is capable of self-government
Kibbutz
A collective farm in Israel
List three reasons powerful nations obtain colonies
-political
-religious
-economic
List two ways that WWII led to great changes that ultimately led to independence for many former colonies
- Colonial powers were no longer invulnerable
- New focus on anit-colonialism in international arenas
Who was the leader of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong