European Empires & War

I. End of the First World War

Russian

• New Soviet Empire
• Stalin's nationalities policy

German

Austro-Hungarian

• Independent Nations

Ottoman Empire

France

• Syria
• Lebanon

Great Britain

• Palestine
• Jordan
• Iraq (Kuwait)

Western Empires

De-Colonization--20th Century

Non-western Anti-imperialism

Self-Government and White Privilege

"Anglo-Saxon Peoples"

II. End of the Second World War

British Empire

• partitions
  • India/Pakistan 1947
  • Israel/Jordan 1948

British Commonwealth

Parliamentary government in India

Britain: NATO/European Community

French Empire

• civilizing mission
• Vietnam (Communism)
• Algeria (Arab nationalism)

China

Anti-Imperialism and Communism\

Dr. Sun Yat Sen (d. 1925)

Chinese Revolution 1911

• Democratic Ideals

Political Instability/War with Japan

Civil War with Communists

End of Second World War

China

• Mao Zedong
• People's Republic 1949
• Marxism-Leninism
• 1960s: Great Cultural Revolution

   

Africa 1950s-1960s

• Missionary Factor
• Racism
• Commerce and Christianity?
• Mission Schools and Nationalism
• Secular Nationalism
  • Ghana 1957
  • Nigeria 1960
  • Kenya 1963
    • Kenya/Mau Mau insurrection 1950s

The Spread of Christianity in Africa

• Missionary Christianity: Protestant & Catholic
  • The White Fathers (France)
  • Anglican Evangelicals (Britain)
• African Independent Churches
• Pentecostalism
  • Spirit-led Worship
  • "Speaking in Tongues"

The Cold War Period, 1945-1991

The American Empire (?)

• Anti-communism
• Nuclear weapons
• Global military intervention
• Corporate capitalism
• National Security State/Democracy

   

The Soviet Empire

• Communism
• Nuclear weapons
• State planning

China

• Independence from Soviet sphere

The Non-Aligned Movement

Bandung Conference 1955

• Egypt (1952) Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Indonesia (1949)
• Ghana (1957)

India (1947)

• Nehru
• Democracy
• State planning--Five Year Plans
  • Economic protectionism

A Third Way?