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Question
1. This 1954 battle marked a major victory for the Viet Minh over the French colonialists, ultimately leading to the French withdrawal from Vietnam and paving the way for a struggle between northern communists and southern anti-communists.
Ia Drang
Dien Bien Phu
Okinawa
Saigon
2. Trying to get out from under Soviet or American influence, many newly decolonized countries tried to go their own way by partnering to create a new superpower. This was called:
Non-Aligned Movement
National Liberation Front
United Nations
Non-Cooperative Movement
3. All of these events provoked an identity crisis among Europeans, their cultures, and their place in the world EXCEPT:
the global hegemony of the Soviet Union and the USA
the creation of the United Nations
the arrival of millions of "guest workers" from the decolonized world
the loss of colonies and imperial pride
4. When ________ that tried to nationalize domestic industries - the US sponsored a coup to overthrow the prime minister Mohammed Mosadeq in 1953 for trying to assert national ownership of its own oil fields, replacing him with a corrupt king, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was beholden to American interests.
Algeria
Egypt
Iraq
Iran
5. After three years of bloody fighting, including the invasion of a full-scale Chinese army in support of the northern forces, the Korean War resulted in:
a stalemate
an American victory
a Soviet victory
Korean independence
6. Between 1945 and 1965, roughly how many formerly colonized countries gained their independence?
25
100
75
15
7. What event was the name of the South Asian settlement of 1947 that arranged for the creation of two new nations: India (a majority Hindu state) and Pakistan (a majority Muslim one)? This brought about a deadly process of civil war, mass expulsions, and religious violence.
The Partition
The Creation
The Mandate
Rama Navami
8. One of the most violent struggles for independence in the period of decolonization occurred in Africa, with France fighting a major war to prevent the independence of this country. Hundreds of thousands of Africans died and tens of thousands of French soldiers were killed.
Ghana
Egypt
Congo
Algeria
9. Many newly independent nations struggled to create governments and societies because:
Existing colonial infrastructure was weakened by wars and only designed to extract local resources
The psychological wreckage of colonial rule had long denied people's empowerment
All answers are correct
History of colonialism left a legacy of violence that continued after independence
10. Millions of decolonizing people migrated to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s to escape the impoverishment of their regions and the turmoil of independence struggles. Thus, having seized most of the world's territory by force, Europeans were now left with a legacy of racial and cultural diversity that many of them did not want. Indeed, white racism began to rise throughout Europe, particularly in Great Britain. One group of Marxist scholars referred to this as phenomenon as:
Social Justice
Rivers of Blood
The Empire Strikes Back
Neo-Imperialism
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