Decolonization and Nationalism Vocab Review

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

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mandate

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Kwame Nkrumah

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

• Decolonization

• Partition

• Great Leap Forward

• Four Modernizations

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

• Mandate

• Red Guards

• Mau Mau

• Sun Yat-Sen

After World War I, a territory that was administered by a Western power.

• Partition

• Mandate

• Territory

• Colony

A disputed territory in the Himalayas, claimed by both India and Pakistan, that has been a source of conflict between the two countries.

• Pakistan

• Israel

• India

• Kashmir

Gandhi's attempt to end the British salt monopoly

• Red Guard

• Long March

• Salt March

• Partition

Chinese nationalist and leader of the Guomindang in the early 1900's; formally known as Chiang Kai-shek.

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Deng Xiaoping

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Jiang Jieshi

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

• Great Leap Forward

• Amritsar Massacre

• Tiananmen Square Massacre

• Four Modernizations

Was the leader of China during the 1980s. He was known for strengthening China's economy through the Four Modernizations.

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Deng Xiaoping

• Jiang Jieshi

• Mao Zedong

In 1989, demonstrators peacefully assembled to push for greater democracy in China and were attacked by government troops and tanks.

• Tiananmen Square Massacre

• Long March

• Amritsar Massacre

• Four Modernizations