Ap Modern European History Post Wwii Questions

Europe and Africa

1.To indicate his reluctancy towards ending colonialism in europe.Britain and France in particular seemed reluctant to let go of their colonies, but for a variety of reasons both eventually gave in to the obvious because the days of empire were over.

By overrunning their colonial empires.

Decolonization is the ending of the colonial empires in this case "European" colonial empires. Basically the power of the European states had been destroyed by the exhaustive struggles of World War II. The greatest colonial empire builder, Great Britain, no longer had the energy or the wealth to maintain its colonial empire. Given the combination of circumstances, a rush of decolonization swept the world. Between 1947 and 1962, virtually every colony achieved independence and attained statehood. Although some colonial powers willingly relinquished their control, others had to be driven out by national wars of liberation.

4.-The Gold Coast, now renamed Ghana and under the guidance of Kwame Nkrumah

-Nigeria,

-Belgian Congo (renamed Zaire)

-Kenya

-Tanzania and others soon followed due to both the British and the French decicion to let go of their colonial empires

-Seventeen new African nations emerged in 1960. Another eleven followed between 1961 and 1965. By the late 1960s, only parts of southern Africa and the Portuguese possessions of Mozambique and Angola remained under European rule.

5. A group of Algerian nationalists organized the National Liberation Front (FLN) and in 1954 initiated a guerrilla war to liberate their homeland

6.In South Africa, political activity by local blacks began with the formation of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1912

laws separating whites and blacks, creating a system of racial segregation in South Africa

8.The ANC leader, who's arrest led to members of the ANC calling for armed resistance to the white government

Middle East

1. Truman supported a jewish state because The Zionists, who wanted Palestine as a home for Jews, were not to be denied and awareness about the Holocaust, and sympathy for the Jewish cause had grown dramatically

2.Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Egyptian government in 1954 and two years later nationalized the Suez Canal Company, which had been under British and French administration. Seeing a threat to their route to the Indian Ocean, the British and French launched a joint attack on Egypt to protect their investment. Pan-Arabism brought about Arab unity.

3. In March 1958, Egypt formally united with Syria in the United Arab Republic

4.The breakup of the UAR did not end the dream of Pan-Arabism but led to the formation of the PLO

5.Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed to represent the interests of the Palestinians. The PLO be- lieved that only the Palestinian peoples and not Jewish immigrants from abroad had the right to form a state in Palestine.

6.Yasir Arafat was a PLO political leader who led a guerrilla movement called al-Fatah which began to launch terrorist attacks on Israeli territory, prompting the Israeli government to raid PLO bases in Jordan in 1966.

7.By the spring of 1967, Nasser in Egypt had stepped up his military activities and imposed