Unit 7 Review

Colonialism

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Colonialism- when one country occupies or controls another country. Ex: the Scramble for Africa, where European countries divided it amongst themselves without regard to the people who were living there.

decolonization

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When the country in control withdraws from the former colony, leaving it independent.

Apartheid

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South African policy of segregation and discrimination based on race.

Arab- Israeli Conflict

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Arab-Israeli Conflict decades-long conflict over land in Palestine that was promised to both Jewish and Arab people

Civil Disobedience

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When citizens boycott or disobey laws that are unfair. Ex: Rosa parks, Ghandi's Salt March

Partition of India

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Division of the Indian subcontinent into Pakistan (Muslim) and India (Hindu) by the British.

Great Leap Forward

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a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958. The goal was to modernize and industrialize the country.

Ahmed Ben Bella

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Algeria's first elected president after it gained its independence from France.

Ho Chi Minh

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Founder of the Indochina Communist Party and president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades.

Camp David Accords

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agreements between Israel and Egypt that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries.