Unit 8 Vocab: Decolonization and Nationalism

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

• Decolonization

• Pan-Africanism

• Salt March

• Long March

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

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Mao Zedong

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

• Great Leap Forward

• Decolonization

• Cultural Revolution

• Zionism

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

• Zionism

• Red Guard

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Mau Mau

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

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Sun Yixian

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

• Deng Xiaoping

• Jiang Jieshi

• Mao Zedong

• Mohandas Gandhi

Refusal to obey unjust laws

• Salt March

• Amritsar Massacre

• Civil Disobedience

• Cultural Revolution

Gandhi’s attempt to end the British salt monopoly

• Long March

• Salt March

• Amritsar Massacre

• Partition

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

• Amritsar Massacre

• Great Leap Forward

• Cultural Revolution

• Tiananmen Square Massacre

To divide the subcontinent of India to create a separate Muslim state called Pakistan

• Red Guard

• Partition

• Four Modernizations

• Balfour Declaration