03/10/2012 Evolution de cette zone pacifique‚ dès origines jusqu’à la 2ème Guerre Mondiale. Pacific region : APEC‚ Asia‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ Aborigines‚ surf‚ beaches‚ kangaroos‚ Islands‚ Hawaii (-> Pearl Harbor)‚ biggest ocean in the world. Pacific (zone‚ area) ocean‚ Asia pacific‚ pacific rim countries. Origin of the name ‘Pacific’: 1521 Magellan coined the word‚ he thought the ocean was calm that came as a mistake. Ancient maps: Pacific Ocean/ south sea Bougainville‚ la Perouse‚
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Europe control was decided. Sought to bring an end to the scramble for Africa. * Boer War * Fought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of the Boer republics. It resulted in British victory‚ but it began the process of decolonization in South America. Causes of imperialism Political | Economical | Social | * Basis for trade and navy ships * Power and security of the global empire * Nationalism * Promotes national superiority * They belive they had the right
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arrogant‚ but WW2 destroyed that‚ and gave opponents of imperialists greater influence in Europe - Did not want bloody colonial wars either‚ thanks to politics and moral authority in tatters - India played a key role in decolonization o Nationalist opposition to British rule coalesced after WW1 under British-educated leadership of Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi Built a mass movement in 1920s and 1930s preaching “noncooperation” Got a new constitution that was a
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after the war. This phrase meant that the people believe that accepting Marx’s ideas are better to rebuild the country instead Smith’s ideas. Marx ideas were for the people to work together as a community instead of individualism. The phrase “decolonization” meant that the country should give up the idea of having an empire and to leave other colonies alone. There should be human rights and that colonies should be independent. John Maynard Keynes was an economist who became a “reformed capitalist”
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Fanon questions the basic assumptions of colonialism. He questions whether violence is a tactic that should be employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native intellectuals who have adopted western methods of thought and urge slow decolonization are in fact part of the same technology of control that the white world employs to exploit the colonized. He questions whether the colonized world should copy the west or develop a whole new set of values and ideas. In all these questionings of
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Gandhi was an activist who had a different approach to civil disobedience and the search for change. He practiced and taught the theory of nonviolence in his era. The fundamental idea behind his teachings was a concept known as Satyagraha‚ which means to hold on to the truth. Satyagraha to Gandhi was a powerful force that was above anything. Furthermore‚ he argues that because humans do not fully posses the truth‚ they are not in a position to practice violence acts against one another. However‚
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The council had been organized in London in the late 1930s by Max Yergan and Paul Robeson to push decolonization and to educate the general public He resigned in 1934‚ but later returned to the NAACP as director of special research from 1944 to 1948. There‚ too‚ he published his most important historical work‚ Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay toward
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Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev was a self-made man‚ even with his unfortunate and harsh upbringing he still managed to make a name for himself. He became one of the most powerful and influential leaders in Russia‚ simultaneously holding the offices of Premier of the U.S.S.R. and First Secretary of the Communist Party. Strong willed‚ and committed‚ Nikita Khrushchev fought for what he believed in and strived to make his country‚ Russia‚ a better place. Nikita Khrushchev was born in a southern
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connoisseur (mostly thought be a Westerner). Annie Coombes and Nestor Garcia Canclini examine this cultural relativism in curatorial and museum practices and how it is stretched to truss over a post colonial rhetoric of decolonization and self determination. Annie Coombes in her essay takes up the issue of such curatorial practices which tend to create spaces for ‘hybridity’ in a superfluous way. It is superfluous because as Coombes observes‚
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Leliefeld Western Governors University Themes in U.S. and World History- Task 3 A. The rise of new imperialism of the 19th and early 20th century involved Europe going into Africa. The causes of imperialism in Africa were partly due to the decolonization in America. The European powers were out political and economic gain by the United States gaining their independence. In 1876 European powers especially King Leopold II of Belgium‚ agreed in the Berlin Conference to split up the land in Africa
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