Global Decolonization and Nationalism Vocab 2026 )

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

• long march
• nationalism
• decolonization 
• zionism

Movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in Palestine.

• Salt March
• Partition 
• Zionism
• Mandate

An incident in which British troops killed hundreds of innocent Indian civilians for ignoring a British law that banned public meetings.

• Amritsar Massacre
• Civil Disobedience
• Kashmir
• Salt March 

A nationalist leader who fought to end oppression laws against Africans, later become the first Prime Minister of Kenya

• Sun Yixian
• Deng Xiaoping
• Jiang Jieshi
• Jomo Kenyatta

After WWI, a territory that was administered by a Western Power.

• mandate
• partitian
• long march
• Mau Mau

refusal to obey an unjust law

• civil disobedience
• partitian
• great leap forward
• long march

worked to remove British imperialists from Africa, became the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

• Mau Mau
• Jiang Jieshi
• Deng Xaioping
• Kwame Nkrumah

Worked for the creation of the state of Israel: became Israel's first Prime Minister.

• Mohandas Gandhi
• David Ben-Gurion
• Mau Mau
• Xiaoping

Indian protest leader in the early to mid-1900s who used passive resistance and nonviolence to overthrow British rule. 

• Mau Mau
• Mao Zedong
• Kashmir
• Mohandas Gandhi

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

• Mau Mau
• Xiaoping
• Zedong
• Jieshi