Decolonization

The process by which European colonies in Africa and Asia became independent states. 

• decolonization 
• Mau Mau
• civil disobedience 
• partition 

A nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya. 

• Jomo Kenyatta 
• Sun Yixian 
• David Ben-Gurion 
• Mau Mau 

Worked to remove British imperialists from Africa; became the first Prime Minister of Ghana. 

• Kwame Nkrumah
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Mao Zedong 
• Jiang Jieshi 

Radical revolutionaries in Kenya who took up arms to fight British imperialism. 

• Mau Mau
• Jomo Kenyatta 
• Jiang Jieshi 
• Mohandas Gandhi 

Movement emphasizing the unity of Africans and people of AFrican descent all over the world. 

• Pan-Africanism 
• Cultural Revolution 
• Great Leap Forward 
• Zionism 

Leader of the Chinese Communists; gained support from peasants

• Mao Zedong 
• David Ben-Gurion 
• Jiang Jieshi 
• Jomo Kenyatta 

A program launched by Mao Zedong to renew loyalty to communism and purge China of those disloyal to Mao. 

• Cultural Revolution 
• Balfour Declaration 
• United Nations 
• Decolonization 

Retreat by Mao Zedong and his followers from the Guomindang. 

• Long March 
• Civil Disobedience 
• Mandate 
• Zionism 

A program launched by Mao Zedong to renew loyalty to communism and purge China of those loyal to Mao. 

• Great Leap Forward
• Decolonization 
• Balfour Declaration 
• United Nations 

Groups of radical students formed in China during the Cultural Revolution. 

• Red Guard 
• Salt March 
• Pan-Africanism
• Cultural Revolution