Apartheid and Mandela

  • muslim league

    a political party established in Dhaka in 1906
  • India Independence Movement (start 1922)

    three major campaigns in the Indian Independence Movement: noncooperation in 1919-1922, the civil disobedience movement and the Salt Satyagraha of 1930-1931, and the Quit India movement from about 1940-1942.
  • Salt March

    was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi.
  • Nelson Mandela entered the University of Fort Hare

  • African National Congress party

    Start
  • South Africa Apartheid

  • Nelson Mandela led the Defiance Campaign

  • Mau Mau Rebellion

    a war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army
  • National Liberation Front

    an armed communist organization
  • Nelson Mandela Arrested

    Activists
  • Ghana Independence Movement

    the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain.
  • Sharpeville Massacre

    the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa. After demonstrating against pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 protesters went to the police station
  • Congo Independence Movement

    A nationalist movement in the Belgian Congo demanded the end of colonial rule
  • Mandela and the rest of the defendants are acquitted of the high treason charge

  • Algerian War for Independence

    was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962
  • apartheid government

    forcibly moved 3.5 million black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history
  • Cambodian Civil War

    the Communist Party of Kampuchea against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which had succeeded the kingdom.
  • Khmer Rouge

    Communist Party of Kampuchea
  • The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act

    declared that all Africans were citizens of “homelands,” rather than of South Africa itself—a step toward the government’s ultimate goal of having no African citizens of South Africa.
  • Homelands were reabsorbed

    into South Africa.
  • Nelson Mandela Retires

  • Pass Laws

    Pass laws were designed to control the movement of Africans under apartheid.