Decolonization in Africa & Southeast Asia: Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh & Independence Struggle - , Study notes of World History

Download Decolonization in Africa & Southeast Asia: Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh & Independence Struggle - and more Study notes World History in PDF only on Docsity! Decolonization in Africa and Southeast Asia Id’s -Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) -Sani Abacha (r. 1993-1998) -Ho Chi Minh (d. 1969) -Phillippines Independence in Africa • Causes • Gold Coast/Ghana in 1957 – Kwame Nkrumah QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. • There are at present some 28 states in Africa, excluding the Union of South Africa, and those countries not yet free. No less than nine of these states have a population of less than three million.Can we seriously believe that the colonial powers meant these countries to be independent, viable states? The example of South America, which has as much wealth, if not more than North America,and yet remains weak and dependent on outside interests, is one which every African would do well to study. • Critics of African unity often refer to the wide differences in culture, language and ideas in various parts of Africa. This is true, but the essential fact remains that we are all Africans,and have a common interest in the independence of Africa. The difficulties presented by questions of language, culture and different political systems are not insuperable. • If the need for political union is agreed by us all, then the will to create it is born;and where there's a will there's a way. Independence in Africa: Part 2 • Peaceful transitions of power • Violent transitions of power – Kenya/Gikuyu 1963 – Rhodesia and Nyasaland QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. Decolonization in Southeast Asia- Vietnam • Tensions after WWII – Ho Chi Minh (d. 1969) • First Indochina War (1946-1954) • North and South Vietnam • American-Vietnamese War (1963-1975) QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. Decolonization in Laos, Cambodia, and Philippines • Laos and Cambodia • Philippines Readings for Final Exam • George Kennan, The Long Telegram • Tan Manni, Lushan’s Pig-Iron “Sputnik” • Three Student Pamphlets from the University of Paris • Ernesto Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental Conference • Ho Chi Minh- Johnson Correspondence • The Palestine National Charter