U.S. and World – Unit II Review Jeopardy

China India Africa Israel Decolonization

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support of peasants and

women allowed him to gain control of China in 1949

Mao Zedong

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country to which Chinese

Nationalists fled after losing 1949

civil warTaiwan

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Mao organized farmers into these to boost

agricultural and industrial output during communist rule of China

Communes

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controlled the Nationalists in China

before losing the 1949 civil war after which they fled to

TaiwanChaing Kai Shek

The Chinese stopped their civil war during

WWII due to what reason?

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To fight off the Japanese invasion

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Country that controlled India

before giving them their independence

in 1947Britain

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area over which India and Pakistan have been fighting since

1947

Kashmir

country Pakistan

aligned with during the Cold

War

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U.S.A.

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two countries and respective religions created by British partition of Indian

subcontinent in 1947

Muslim-Pakistan

Hindu-India

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massacre in India in 1919 by British

soldiers that resulted in many Indians to

fight for independence

Amritsar

These two countries

had the largest colonial empires in

Africa

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Britain and France

This North African country

was a former French colony and had to fight for its

independence

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Algeria

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two resources found in the Belgian Congo that were stripped prior to their independence in

1960

Rubber & Copper

movement to

celebrate African culture, heritage, and values that

began prior to WWII

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Negritude

name of the

southwestern African nation that became a Cold War battleground

with the USSR supporting one side

and the U.S. the other

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country given control of Palestine as a mandate by the

League of Nations following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire

after WWI

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group that took control of Palestine in 1947 after Great Britain

gave it up and made a partition plan for

Palestine

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United Nations

The following countries invaded

Egypt during the Suez Crisis

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Israel, Britain and France

promise made by the British in 1917 that

they would eventually create a homeland for the Jews in Palestine

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Balfour Declaration

City that is often at the center of conflict

in Palestine, because it is a holy city for Jews,

Muslims, and Christians

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Jerusalem

four of six specific reasons

Europeans were interested in controlling colonies in places

like Africa prior to WWII

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1.Mineral resources 2.Cheap labor

3. Raw materials 4. Military & naval bases

5. Agricultural products

6. Markets for goods

biggest reason why

European powers gave up control of colonies

in Africa

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Colonial powers could no longer afford to keep their colonies

Decolonization increased tensions

in the Cold War because of this

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Two Superpowers courted nations to join their side

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In which two decades did Africa gain most of its independent nations

1950s and 1960s

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These countries lost their colonies after

WWII as a punishment

Germany, Italy and Japan

the belief that people should be

loyal to their nation

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Nationalism

movement devoted

to rebuilding a Jewish state in

Palestine

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Zionism

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This ocean lies EAST of Africa

Indian Ocean

British proposal of 1939 whereby Palestine would be given independence

within 10 years but would not be a Jewish state

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British White Paper

secret agreement

between Britain and France to control

Palestine following WWI signed in 1916

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Sykes-Picot Agreement