THE CONTEMPORARY WORLDCrisis Beyond the Cold War to the Present

NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS BY COLONIAL COUNTRIES

India under Gandhi

Above: Gandhi weaving his own clothTop Left: Painting of the Salt March

Bottom Left: Gandhi speaking to a crowd

GANDHI OPPOSED TO DIVIDING INDIA

Above: The changing borderRight: Gandhi and Pakistani

leader JinnahFar Right: Gandhi and Indian

leader Nehru

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Q1. WHY DID GANDHI LEAD A SALT MARCH?

NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS BY COLONIAL COUNTRIES

KENYA UNDER JOMO KENYATTA INDEPENDENCE FOR ISRAEL

Google doodle on the 2010 anniversary of Kenyan independence

What do you think? Does the title of the chart below indicate bias on the maker of the map-chart?

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Q2. WHAT DO THE ARABS AND ISRAELIS FIGHT OVER?

INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLES

SUEZ CRISIS – AN EMPIRE FALLS

1956

Egpytian Leader: Gamal Abdel Nasser

Alliance of Britain, France, Israel

Britain and France shunned

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Q3. HOW DID COLONIALISM COME TO AN END?

INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLES

FAMINE IN SOMALIAGENOCIDE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Somali children waiting in line for food distribution at a refugee camp

in December 1992

INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLES

GENOCIDE IN RWANDA APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA

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Q4. COMPLETE THIS ANALOGY: SEGREGATION WAS TO THE UNITED STATES AS __________ WAS TO SOUTH

AFRICA

THE ARAB SPRING

COLONIZATION COMES TO A CLOSE

1979 Peace treatyConflicts between Israel

and Egypt

1973-1974 Arab embargo

THE ARAB SPRING: FROM DICTATORS TO REVOLUTION

Above: Former

Egyptian dictator

Hosini Mubarak

Right: Egyptian anti-

government demonstrator

s waving Egpytian

flags in Feb 2011

THE ARAB SPRINGSpring Cometh

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Q5. BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, COME UP WITH AN ORIGINAL THESIS STATEMENT/CLAIM THAT ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHY IS INDEPENDENCE AN

IDEAL?

PICTURE CITATIONS Slide 2

en.wikipedia.org allindiaarts.com altrapoint.com

Slide 3 worldphotocollections.blogspot.co

m en.wikipedia.org news.bbc.co.uk

Slide 5 apwhwiki.pbworks.com biztechafrica.com eutimes.net

Slide 8 historyguy.com depotghost.wordpress.com bodley.ox.ac.uk

Slide 9 reuters.com bosniangenocide.wordpress.com croatia.org

Slide 10 animalnewyork.com mtholyoke.edu gwu.edu news.eastvillagers.org en.wikipedia.org angelasfailure.blogspot.com goodlifezen.com

Slide 12 heatingoil.com defence.pk laradioisrael.com

Slide 13 en.wikipedia.org theatlantic.com

Slide 14 viewpointonline.net thenewsignificance.com mrchrister.com digitaltrends.com blogs.thenews.com.pk

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