History Department      

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – November 9, 2005  

THE END OF EMPIRE

Europe in the 1950s  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. Decolonization
  2. Congress Party
  3. Gandhi
  4. Nehru
  5. British Commonwealth
  6. Angola & Mozambique
  7. “Belgian” Congo
  8. Indonesia
  9. Moslem League
  10. Ho Chi Minh
  11. Dien Bien Phu
  12. Mau Mau
  13. Algerian War
  14. Malaya
  15. Suez Crisis (1956)

 QUESTIONS:    

  1. How differently did the various European powers handle decolonization?  Which power was the most successful?  The least successful?
  2. The 1950s represented a huge shift in global power, as the European liquidated their Empires.  Make a brief list of just how DIFFERENT the world had become from, say, 1930 – 1960.

 

 

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