https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley azzanni sparrow en-us 2017-06-06 12:52:45 UTC 2017-06-08 01:37:18 UTC hello@padlet.com azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175379349 Conflicts and revolutionary
movements in China
• Division of China into two nations at
the end of the Chinese civil war
• Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi):
Nationalist China (island of Taiwan)
• Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong):
Communist China (mainland China)
• Continuing conflict between the two
Chinas
• Communist China’s participation in
Korean War ]]> 2017-06-06 12:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175379349 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175379621 Indira Gandhi
• Closer relationship between India
and the Soviet Union during the
Cold War
• Developed nuclear program
Margaret Thatcher
• British prime minister
• Free trade and less government
regulation of business
• Close relationship with United States
and U.S. foreign policy
• Assertion of United Kingdom’s
military power
Mikhail Gorbachev
• Glasnost and perestroika
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Last president of Soviet Union
Deng Xiaoping
• Reformed Communist China’s
economy to a market economy
leading to rapid economic growth
• Continued communist control of
government]]> 2017-06-06 12:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175379621 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175379956 Regional setting for the Indian independence
movement
• Indian sub-continent
• British India
• India
• Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan)
• Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
• Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) ]]> 2017-06-06 13:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175379956 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380203 Evolution of the Indian independence
movement
• British rule in India
• Indian National Congress
• Leadership of Mohandas Gandhi
• Role of civil disobedience and passive
resistance
• Political division along Hindu-Muslim lines —
Pakistan/India
• Republic of India
– World’s largest democratic nation
– Federal system, giving many powers to the
states
Indian democracy
• Jawaharlal Nehru, a close associate of Gandhi,
supported western-style industrialization.
• 1950 Constitution sought to prohibit caste
discrimination.
• Ethnic and religious differences caused
problems in the development of India as a
democratic nation.
• New economic development has helped to ease
financial problems of the nation. ]]> 2017-06-06 13:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380203 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380376 The independence movement in Africa
• Right to self-determination (U.N.
charter)
• Peaceful and violent revolutions after
World War II
• Pride in African cultures and heritage
• Resentment of imperial rule and
economic exploitation
• Loss of colonies by Great Britain,
France, Belgium, and Portugal;
influence of superpower rivalry during
the Cold War ]]> 2017-06-06 13:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380376 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380494 Kenya (Britain): Violent struggle
under leadership of Jomo Kenyatta]]> 2017-06-06 13:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380494 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380631 • South Africa: Black South Africans’
struggle against apartheid led by
Nelson Mandela, who became the first
black president of the Republic of
South Africa ]]> 2017-06-06 13:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380631 azzanni2011 https://padlet.com/azzanni2011/u8x46osmtley/wish/175380885

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