Decolonization: Part 1

Question 1

global south

Answer 1

• areas known as third world countries (underdeveloped nations)
• today known as developing countries
• looking at nations south of industrial super powers

Question 2

decolonization

Answer 2

• global south independence form European rule

Question 3

challenges facing the global south after decolonization

Answer 3

• the legacies of empire
• deep divisions of language, ethnicity, religion, and class
• rapidly growing populations
• competing demands of the capitalist west and the communist east
• developing economies, stable politics, and coherent nations all at the same time

Question 4

European view of colonies

Answer 4

• mobilization of masses in European colonies around nationalistic empire, empires fall
• Christianity and material progress were being brought to areas
• increase in democratic values
• promoting national self determination

Question 5

within empires/colonies

Answer 5

• racism
• exploitation
• poverty
• rule by dictatorship
• people denied opportunity to express national character
• leads to demise of colonies

Question 6

independence

Answer 6

• international circumstances that led to the end of these empires
• both world wars = weakened Europe
• both world wars = discredited any sense of European moral superiority
• US and Soviet Union = new global superpowers - opposed the older European colonial empires
• United Nations = platform from which nations could express anti-colonial views

Question 7

by mid-20th century

Answer 7

• 2nd and 3rd generation western-educated elites had arisen throughout the colonial world
• familiar with European culture and aware of the gaps between its values and its practices
• didn’t see colonial rule as a vehicle for their peoples’ progress
• increasingly insisted on independence
• veterans of the world wars
• young people with some education but no job opportunities
• urban workers = aware of their exploitation
• small-scale traders = resentful of European privileges
• rural dwellers = lost land or suffered form forced labor
• poor and insecure newcomers to the cities

Question 8

what have we seen repeat throughout world history

Answer 8

• the rise and fall of empires

Question 9

in most areas of the global south

Answer 9

• independence was a struggle

Question 10

which of the following was NOT happening within the empires of the global south

Answer 10

• rise of national character

Question 11

what led to the demise of empires in the global south

Answer 11

• war & poverty

Question 12

what did natives see happening in the global south

Answer 12

• racialism, poverty, dictatorship, exploitation