Global Decolonization and Nationalism Vocab 2024 )

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Process by which European colonies in Africa and Asia gained independence.

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Decolonization

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Movement to rebuild a Jewish state in Palestine.

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Zionism

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British troops killed hundreds of Indian civilians for ignoring a law banning public meetings.

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Amritsar Massacre

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Nationalist leader who fought against oppression laws in Africa and became Kenya's first Prime Minister.

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Jomo Kenyatta

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Post-WWI territory administered by a Western Power.

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mandate

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Refusal to obey an unjust law

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Civil disobedience

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First Prime Minister of Ghana who fought against British imperialism.

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Kwame Nkrumah

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First Prime Minister of Israel, instrumental in its creation.

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David Ben-Gurion

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Indian protest leader using nonviolence to end British rule in the early 1900s.

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Mohandas Gandhi

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Radical revolutionaries in Kenya fighting British imperialism.

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Mau Mau