Module 6

Module 6. Due April 14

Please read chapter 22, titled “The End of Empire.”

Similar to the previous chapters, respond to 3 of the sidebar or big picture questions, or to questions about the images or documents in this chapter. Each response should be approximately 200 words and must show evidence of having personally read the chapter. Post your 3 responses to your blog.

After the due date, go back and make thoughtful comments on at least 2 other students’ blog posts.

For your convenience, the sidebar and big picture questions from this chapter are copied below. Remember, you only have to respond to three of them!

1) In what ways did the experience of the “Global South” during the past century register on the larger stage of world history?

2) What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration?

3) What international circumstances and social changes contributed to the end of colonial empires?

4) What obstacles confronted the leaders of movements for independence?

5) How did India’s nationalist movement change over time?

6) What was the role of Gandhi in India’s struggle for independence?

7) What conflicts and differences divided India’s nationalist movement?

8) Why was African rule in South Africa delayed until 1994, when it had occurred decades earlier elsewhere in the colonial world?

9) Why do you think Abdul Khan is generally unknown? Where does he fit in the larger history of the twentieth century?

10) How did South Africa’s struggle against white domination change over time?

11) How and why did the anticolonial struggles in India and South Africa differ?

12) What conclusions can you draw from the Snapshot graph titled “World Population Growth, 1950-2011” on page 994?

13) What led to the erosion of democracy and the establishment of military government in much of Africa and Latin America?

14) What common features do the reconciliation efforts described in the Zooming In segment titled “Mozambique: Civil War and Reconciliation,” on page 998, share? How do they differ? What possible responses to them can you imagine?

15) What obstacles impeded the economic development of third-world countries?

16) How and why did thinking about strategies for economic development change over time?

17) In what ways did cultural revolutions in Turkey and Iran reflect different understandings of the role of Islam in modern societies?

18) In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for independence shape the agenda of developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century?

19) How would you compare the historical experiences of India and China in the twentieth century?

20) From the viewpoint of the early twenty-first century (2000-2015), to what extent had the goals of nationalist or independence movements been achieved?

21) To what extent did the struggle for independence and the postcolonial experience of African and Asian peoples in the twentieth century parallel or diverge from that of the earlier “new nations” in the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

22) If your version of our textbook includes the “Working with Evidence” section, you may also write your answers to any of the study questions included in the Evidence entries for this chapter.