Module 12 New Nations

Define the Atlantic charter

In a agreement between Great Britain and the US that colonialism needs to end

Part of the Cold War is about…

Gaining military alliances, it’s about gaining trade agreement, etc.

India was previously a

British colony

The US is going to offer___to the Philippines

Independent

Define the Indian act of 1935

This is evidence of that gradual trend that we see with the British beginning to pull out a little bit. With two big obstacles continuing from this.

What were those two big obstacles of the Indian act of 1935?

1. World War II

2. Winston Churchhill when he became Prime Minister

Winston Churchill has no desire to see anyone become…

Independent

Who were key leaders by the end of World War II.

Gandhi and Nehru

Who is Nehru?

He’s the first leader of an independent India.

Who was Gandhi in terms of Nehru?

Gandhi would be associated with Nehru with the Hindu population.

What is the issue when it comes to the Hindu population?

You have a much larger Hindu population. You have a smaller Muslim population. Those are two key religious groups.

Who created organizations for the Hindu population along with having the Congress party?

Nehru and Gandhi.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is associated with…

The Muslim league

When we talk about the partition, India and Pakistan, India will remain___and Pakistan will be for the___.

hindu, Muslim population

The Muslim lady called for a day of direct action and this led to…

Direct fighting violence between Muslim and Hindus in India in August 1946

Around 6000 people died in …

the great Calcutta killing that resulted from some of the demonstrations associate with the day of direct action

Gandhi is associated with…

Nonviolent protests

Gandhi urge all Indians and Pakistanis to adhere to a practice of ______

Non-violence

One of the first issues he had to adjust for violence that broke out in a contested area along the partition known as the…

Kashmir region

India would be____in the Cold War.

Neutral

Bandung conference is held in what year?

In 1955

Zhou Enlai gives an introductory speech at the Bandung Conference and used the term…

Third world because it was a bipolar, like one in two

Nehru is apart of the Bandung conference. T or F?

True

Nehru would emerge as the first leader to attend the Bandung conference. There were _____ Asian nations and ____ African nations that attended the event and conference.

23, six

Nehru gave a speech in 1940 where he said…

That the Hindu and Muslim populations are too different in India, that there needed to be a separate place for them in the the Muslim population

From this speech, this created…

Pakistan

Under Nehru, you will see the creation of a constitution, with the Indian National Congress he’s going to govern well into____until his death.

1964

Now that new nations have developed they are creating new____

Identities

The French and the Dutch were on board with the Atlantic charter. True or false?

False, they opposed the idea of giving up colonies

Indonesia is comprised of how many islands?

18,000 islands

Coffee beans were grown on the island of…

Java in Indonesia

The _____ went back to the islands of Indonesia in 1945, and attempted to govern it

the Dutch

The Dutch were in favor of the Marshall plan, but what did the U.S. tell them would happen if they didn’t give up Indonesia?

They’d cut them off

The Marshall plan:

Offered by the U.S.

Given to the European powers

Offered out as economic aid, money,

support to European powers to help them rebuild after WWII

Define President Sukarno

Became the first leader to emerge on the western

delegations to remain on the islands

Is significant in the band conference

He’s not really associated with focusing on economic

issues are being fairly open to others

Three key people at the Bandung conference:

Zhou Enlai

President Sukarno

Nehru

Indonesia has the_____largest population in the world at this time

Fourth

What did this coup attempt on September 30, 1965 lead to

A very brutal repression of the communist on the island because President Sukarno wasn’t really focusing on economic issues and in that time, a communist party had developed and sees them as a threat

What trailer does the professor referred to in the lecture about this era?

Referred to as the year of living dangerously/the year of living dangerously in 1965

Malaysia had been______ and be given their ______ from the _____, while in Singapore

Independent, independence, British

Singapore is an…

An island on the tip of that peninsula and has always been associated with Malaysia in the time frame of colonialism

Who was Singapore’s leader?

Lee Kuan Yew

One of the anti-communist leaders in Indonesia was…

General Suharto

The next leader that comes into power after Sukarno was…

Suharto

Who rose to power and placed Sukarno under house arrest in March of 1966.

General Zawacki

Suharto’s leadership is known for…

Issues of corruption

Famous for brutally repressing

Communists partially because of the

Anti-communist status

Fairly repressive

There were protests led by students in 1998 to lead to Suharto’s resignation. T or F?

True, they wanted him out of leadership because of his repressive ways

Vietnam’s had been part of a larger colonial venture by the French known as …

Indochina

What did this comprise of…?

Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

Once the war ended, European powers divided the nation basically in…

Half at the 17th parallel

The nationalists in China were to collect soldiers or take Japanese soldiers that were…

Surrendering north of the line

And the British were going to take them…

South of that line

The new emerged leader to the northern part of Vietnam was…

Ho Chi Minh

In the North of Vietnam what began with political development…

The red river basin

Ho Chi Minh is a _____

Communist

The United States in the context of the Cold War is dedicating to stopping the spread of________

Communism

In the week of the US withdrawal, there were two political parties formed name these two parties.

The PLP/the liberal party of the Philippines

The P/the national party

What time is the most population growth is between?

The 1960s through the 1970s

One of the key issues facing those in the Philippines has to do with the

Election violence

Define who Ferdinand Marco was

he was the first president to win a second term he’s also known for declaring martial law and he governs for quite a bit of a timeframe. He actually declares martial law September 21, 1972 he has rivals and from these rivals was an assassination who was a senatorand that led the widow of the Senator to challenge Ferdinand’s leadership in the 80s he ended up, leaving for Hawaii and resigned as a result of the pressure

the French try to get back in and what do they convince the British of doing?

They convinced them if they don’t get back in that Vietnam will become more communist

The French try to go further into the north to…

unify or conquer Vietnam

by 1955 was the French successful in this? Yes, or no?

no

The US was in support of French colonialism. True or false?

True, they oppose the idea of communism, but supported the idea of French colonialism in the time of the Cold War