The Colonies Become New Nations, 1945–Present
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SECTION The Indian Subcontinent Gains Independence 1
SECTION Southeast Asian Nations Gain Independence 2
SECTION New Nations in Africa 3
SECTION Conflicts in the Middle East 4
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After World War II, imperialist powers rethink the cost of colonies, which are demanding independence. The imperialists differ in the speed with which they relinquish control and in the amount of preparation for independence they provide.
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New Nations, 1945–Present
1947 India gains independence.
1963 Kenya wins independence.
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1975 Angolan civil war begins after Portuguese withdrawal.
1986 Popular vote ousts Marcos’s dictatorship in the Philippines.
1997 Mobuto dictatorship in Zaire falls.
1945 Sukarno proclaims Indonesian independence.
1954 Algerians begin to fight French rule.
At the end of World War II, South Asians demand independence. Britain partitions the Indian subcontinent into two new nations, India and Pakistan; a part of Pakistan later becomes Bangladesh. Britain also frees Ceylon.
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New nations emerged from the British colony of India.
India today is the largest democracy in the world.
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• Congress Party
• Muslim League
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Lord Mountbatten
• partition
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Indira Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi
• Benazir Bhutto
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1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. Write about prominent Indian prime ministers from independence in 1947 through 1989.
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1947 Nehru
1966Indira Ghandi
1984Rajiv Ghandi
2. Do you think that India’s political and economic success is crucial to the future of democracy in Asia? Why? THINK ABOUT
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• India’s influence in Asia • religious and ethnic differences and conflicts • social implications of economic failure
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Yes, because India is one of the most populous countries and the largest democracy in the world. If India can have a democracy with so many different ethnic and religious groups, other, smaller countries should be able to as well; other Asian countries look to India for guidance.
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3. What were some of the problems shared by leaders of India and Pakistan? THINK ABOUT
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• the factions within these countries • their thoughts about independence • how their problems were resolved
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Both countries had large minorities that were in conflict with the majorities. Both struggled to establish democracy. Both faced problems of poverty and economic development.
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Some of the Southeast Asian colonies that become independent after World War II prosper, while others suffer under authoritarian regimes.
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The European colonies in Southeast Asia became independent countries in the postwar period.
The power and influence of the Pacific Rim nations are likely to expand during the next century.
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• Ferdinand Marcos
• Corazón Aquino
• Aung San
• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Sukarno
• Suharto
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1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. Summarize the major challenges the countries below faced following independence.
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Military basesBell ActDifficulties with democracyAssassinationsMarcos stealing money
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The Philippines
Burma
Indonesia
BritainUnstable governmentsAssassinationsEthnic conflicts
NetherlandsEthnic conflictsCoupHuge gap between rich and poor
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2. Why do you think that the United States demanded a 99-year lease on military and naval bases in the Philippines? THINK ABOUT
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• U.S. economic interests in the Philippines • geographical location • reasons for military presence
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• To protect U.S. economic interests
• The location of the Philippines made it an important military outpost.
• Bases were a reminder to surrounding countries of U.S. military force.
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Colonizers differ in their willingness to grant independence to their African colonies and in the amount of help they give their colonies in preparing to become modern nations.
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After World War II, African leaders threw off colonial rule and created independent countries.
Today, many of those independent countries are engaged in building political and economic stability.
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• Negritude movement
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Jomo Kenyatta
• Mau Mau
• Mobutu Sese Seko
• FLN
• Ahmed Ben Bella
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1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. For each country shown below, list an idea, an event, or a leader important to that country’s history.
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Ghana
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Zaire
Algeria
Angola
Took its name from African kingdom of the past
Nairobi became a major business center.
Renamed the Congo
Ben Bella was prime minister and president.
Fought Portuguese for independence
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The factions may have promised non-African nations economic opportunities, such as trading or business privileges, in return for support; the non-African nations may have wanted to preserve economic interests they already had in the region.
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2. Why do you think that non-African nations supported certain factions that claimed power in the newly independent nations of Africa? THINK ABOUT
• Lumumba’s request for Soviet aid in the Congo • U.S. support of the FNLA • the Cold War
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• economic interests of the non-African nations
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• There were many different religious and ethnic groups with competing interests.
• Europeans, Americans, and Soviets supported different groups.
• World War II had given Africans a new confidence.
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3. Why do you think revolution swept so many African nations following their independence from European rule after World War II? THINK ABOUT
• the conditions preceding independence
• economic interests of European powers and newly independent nations
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• how World War II influenced Africans
The division of Palestine and the creation of the new nation of Israel after World War II result in conflict between Israeli and Palestinian nationalist movements that continues today.
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Division of Palestine after World War II made the Middle East a hotbed of competing nationalist movements.
The conflict in the Middle East threatens the stability of the region today.
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• Balfour Declaration
• Suez Crisis
• Six-Day War
• Anwar Sadat
• Golda Meir
• Menachem Begin
• Camp David Accords
• Hosni Mubarak
• PLO
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1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. List some important political and military events that occurred following the Suez Crisis.
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Suez Crisis
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2. Explain the conflict between Jews and Arabs over a Palestinian homeland. What does each side believe? What other factors influence this issue? THINK ABOUT
• the Balfour Declaration • the ancient history of the Middle East
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• Jews believe their right to a Palestinian homeland is a covenant from God.
• Palestinian Arabs believe the land has belonged to them since the Jews were driven out in A.D. 135.
• Other Arabs believe it has belonged to them since their 7th-century conquest of the region.
• Other influences: oil interests; global politics; persecution of Jews in Europe.
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