HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Kwame Nkrumah, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bandung Conference
6 Nov 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
The Cold War: Decolonization —
-Key Terms -
•Third World
•Nonalignment
•Decolonization
•Chinese Revolution:
-Conflict between nationalists and communists
-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) founded in 1921
-Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek and they governed since 1928
•Chiang Kai-Shek
•Mao Zedong
•Great Leap Forward (1958-1960):
-Promotion of small-scale industrialization in rural areas
-Foster technical eduction for all rather than relying on small elite of highly trained
technical experts
-Transition to communism in “people’s communes”
-Administrative chaos, disruption of marketing networks, and bad weather
produced a massive famine killing 20 million people or more between 1959 and
1962
•Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976):
-Mao called for a revolution to combat capitalists tendencies that infiltrated the
CCP
-Involved policies to extend health care and education to countryside and
reinvigorate rural industrialization
-Gender distinction dismissed, yet “gender equality” resembled masculinity
-Violent program - encouraged people to neutralize “bourgeois
counterrevolutionaries”
•Kwame Nkrumah
•Bandung Conference (1955):
-29 newly independent nations that were previous colonized met to decide how
they were going to all coexist as free countries
•Sukarno
•Fidel Castro:
-First secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
•Cuban Missile Crisis
•Nikita Khrushchev
•John F. Kennedy
-Main Points -
•Colonized states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America began to undergo process of
decolonization
•The process of decolonization and nation-building often followed four patterns: civil
wars, revolution and wars of independence, negotiated independence, and
incomplete decolonization.
-Decolonization in India -
•Negotiated independence in India and Africa
-in India and parts of Africa, British and other European empires withdrew
Document Summary
Key terms : third world, nonalignment, decolonization, chinese revolution: Chinese communist party (ccp) founded in 1921. Nationalists led by chiang kai-shek and they governed since 1928: chiang kai-shek, mao zedong, great leap forward (1958-1960): Promotion of small-scale industrialization in rural areas. Foster technical eduction for all rather than relying on small elite of highly trained technical experts. Administrative chaos, disruption of marketing networks, and bad weather produced a massive famine killing 20 million people or more between 1959 and. Mao called for a revolution to combat capitalists tendencies that in ltrated the. Involved policies to extend health care and education to countryside and reinvigorate rural industrialization. Gender distinction dismissed, yet gender equality resembled masculinity. Violent program - encouraged people to neutralize bourgeois counterrevolutionaries : kwame nkrumah, bandung conference (1955): 29 newly independent nations that were previous colonized met to decide how they were going to all coexist as free countries: sukarno, fidel castro:
