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In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

urged the use of violence against colonial oppressors.

Gandhi predicted that "rivers of blood" would flow in the wake of the creation of

Pakistan.

Reasons Arab nationalism failed to materialize?

Some Arabs are Shia and some Sunni Muslims. Some Arab states aligned with the United States and some with the Soviet Union. They did not all agree on the status of Israel.

Apartheid ended in South Africa because

The Sharpeville massacre instituted a new era of radical activism against it. The international community imposed economic sanctions against South Africa. President de Klerk convinced his party to dismantle the system and hold free elections. The African National Congress provided a vehicle for resistance.

Conflicts between native Kikuyu and British settlers intensified in Kenya after World War II because

white settlers had seized the best farmlands for years, and the Kikuyu had been crowded onto tribal reserves and reduced to the status of wage laborers.

Gandhi was assassinated by _________

a hindu extremist

In both Guatemala and Nicaragua in the 1950s and 1960s,

the United States supported military dictatorships that were anticommunist.

Gandhi and Nehru opposed the partition of India because

they believed that India could be a successful multicultural state.

Britain withdrew from Palestine in 1947 because

they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews.

Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s

was ruled by military dictators who caused the "disappearance" of thousands.

A Geneva peace conference regarding Vietnam in 1954

Followed the defeat of France at Dienbienphu. Determined that Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. Determined that Ho Chi Minh and the communists would have control of North Vietnam. Determined that democratic elections would be held as soon as possible.

The regime of the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown because

He alienated conservative Shia Muslims with his secular reforms. His repressive policies alienated leftist politicians. He allowed U.S. corporations to heavily influence the economy. He allowed heavy U.S. military and economic involvement.

Who seized power after a bloodless coup ended the monarchy of King Farouk?

Kwame Nkrumah

The nonalignment movement remained weak because

many nonaligned states needed and accepted aid from either the United States or Soviet Union.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated because she

permitted an attack on Sikh extremists at the sacred Golden Temple.

Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he

succeeded in retaking the Suez Canal from the British.

As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China,

the educated elite were persecuted, and China was deprived of their talent.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised that Palestine would

become a homeland for immigrant Jews.

Deng Xiaoping

brought free market reforms to China.

The French fought to retain Algeria because

there were two million French settlers in Algeria.