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Unit 2: Change and conflict (The changing world order, 1945 onwards)
Quick questions on Decolonisation in India and Africa (VCE Modern History Unit 2)
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What is partition?Show answer
Muslim League (Jinnah) demanded a separate Muslim state (Lahore Resolution, 1940). Britain accelerated withdrawal under Mountbatten in 1947.
What is year of Africa?Show answer
Seventeen states independent in one year: Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Madagascar, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, DR Congo, Somalia, Mali, Nigeria, Mauritania.
What is settler colonies harder?Show answer
Kenya (Mau Mau emergency 1952-1960, independence 1963). Rhodesia (UDI 1965, Zimbabwe 1980). South Africa (apartheid only ended 1994).
What is background?Show answer
Algeria was integral part of France since 1830, not a colony. One million European settlers (pieds-noirs). million Muslim Algerians.
What is fLN insurgency from 1 November 1954?Show answer
Front de Libération Nationale launched guerrilla war.
What are battle of Algiers?Show answer
French Army used torture systematically; documented by historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet and others.
What is french political crisis?Show answer
Fourth Republic collapsed (May 1958). De Gaulle returned to power.
What is human cost?Show answer
Estimated - million Algerian dead. French dead. Sharp historical disputes over scale.
What is edward Said?Show answer
Orientalism (1978). Foundational text of post-colonial studies.
What is q1?Show answer
"European empires collapsed because of nationalist pressure rather than great-power change." To what extent do you agree? [10 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain the significance of the Year of Africa (1960). [4 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse the role of the Non-Aligned Movement in the post-colonial order. [6 marks]