HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Frantz Fanon, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Identity Politics
Document Summary
The end of european political empires after 1945. Growth of local mass protest/independence movements in asia and. 1917: zionist demand a jewish homeland from the british government. 1930s: jewish settler and arab palestine insurrections begin. World war ii and international sympathy for the jewish community. 1947: british and the un develop the palestine partition plan . Palestine divided up between jewish community and non-jewish community. Opposition to partition: jewish settlers, arab palestinians, arab nations. 1948 partition, british withdraw, israel declares independence, and war breaks out. Israel wins, palestinians driven out of state of israel. Arab distrust of the united states and western europe. The reduction in tensions between the usa and ussr. Respect for the integrity and independence of all nation-states. Non-aligned nations still participate in the cold war. Gamal abdel nasser and pan-arabism (1950s and 1960s) Goal: ethnic unification and the reduction of western/foreign.
