Unit 9 Flashcards
Define: Partition
Division of India when the British left in August 1947 into East and West Pakistan (for Muslims) and India (for Hindus). Massive movement of people and violence.
How did religious and cultural differences create problems for the newly emerging nations in the Indian subcontinent?
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Define: Cultural Revolution
Movement led by Mao’s Red Guards in China from 1966 to 1968. Peasants = heros. Intellectuals dangerouse and needed to purify through hard labor. Colleges and universities closed. Chaos.
Define Red Guards
Student group formed at Mao’s urging that led the Cultural Revolution, but got out of hand and caused chaos.
Define: Balfour Declaration
British Foreign Scty declaration in 1917 that they favored creation of an Israeli state in Palestine while protecting the “rights of existing non-Jewish communities.” Efforts to create a Jewish state failed, however.
Define: Oslo Accords
1993 agreement signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat. Gave Palestinians self-rule in Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Define: intifada
“uprising” – Palestinian disobedience begun in 1987 (boycotts, demonstrations, attacks on Israeli soldiers and rock throwing by unarmed teens). Put world pressure on Israel to negotiate with Palestinians, which began in late 1991.
The state of Israel was created by whom?
The United Nations after WWII. Palestine was partitioned into a Palestinian State and a Jewish State. Jerusalem to be an international city owned by neither side.
