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India Independence Movement
The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events with the ultimate aim of ending British rule in India. It lasted from 1857 to 1947. -
Indian National Congress
It aimed to obtain a greater share in government for educated Indians and to create a platform for civic and political dialogue between them and the British. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. -
Muslim League
political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India -
Salt March
A protest led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India. -
Quit India Movement
Led by Mahatma Gandhi, it used methods of non-violent resistance to demand freedom from British rule. -
Quit and Separate
a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India. -
Kenya African Union
The Kenya African Union was a political organization in colonial Kenya, formed in October 1944 prior to the appointment of the first African to sit in the Legislative Council. In 1960 it became the current Kenya African National Union -
Partition
The partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947. The change of political borders notably included the division of two provinces of British India -
Accra Riots
the capital of present-day Ghana, which at the time was the British colony of the Gold Coast. A protest march by unarmed ex-servicemen who were agitating for their benefits as veterans of World War II was broken up by police, leaving three leaders of the group dead. -
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Ghana Independence Movement
On 6 March 1957, the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and was led to independence by Kwame Nkrumah who transformed the country into a republic, with himself as president for life. -
Kikuyu Tribe
The Mau Mau uprising created a rift between the European colonial community in Kenya and the metropole, and also resulted in violent divisions within the Kikuyu community -
Mau Mau Rebellion
The Mau Mau rebellion, also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities -
Detention Camps
Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps. The term concentration camp originates from the Spanish Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to combat guerrilla forces. -
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Algerian War for Independence
The Algerian War was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. -
Pan Africanism
The most-important figure of this period was Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, who believed that European colonial rule of Africa could be extinguished if Africans could unite politically and economically. Nkrumah went on to lead the movement for independence in Ghana, which came to fruition in 1957. -
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Congo Independence Movement
The first such confrontation occurred in the former Belgian Congo, which gained its independence on June 30, 1960. In the months leading up to independence, the Congolese elected a president, Joseph Kasavubu, prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, a senate and assembly, and similar bodies in the Congo's numerous provinces. -
Assassination of Pactrice Lumumba
Lumumba was captured and imprisoned en route by state authorities under Mobutu. He was handed over to Katangan authorities, and executed in the presence of Katangan and Belgian officials and military officers. His body was thrown into a shallow grave, but later dug up and destroyed. -
London Conference 1962
The Uganda Independence Conference was opened on Tuesday, June 12, 1962 at Marlborough House in London and concluded on Friday, June 29, 1962 -
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 -
S21
The most notorious of the 189 known interrogation centers in Cambodia was S-21, housed in a former school and now called Tuol Sleng for the hill on which it stands. Between 14,000 and 17,000 prisoners were detained there, often in primitive brick cells built in former classrooms.