BE Unit 4 Quiz

• CAF created


  1953
• South Africa left the Commonwealth and became a Republic


  1961
• CAF dissolved


  1963
• Ian Smith declared UDI, South Rhodesia independent as 'Rhodesia'


  1965
• War broke out in Rhodesia between white settlers and African nationalist movements


  1969
• The United Malays National Organisation created

  1946
• Malaya granted independence


  1957
• Singapore granted self-government


  1958
• Singapore removed from the Federation of Malaya


  1965
• Suez crisis leaders


  PM - Eden, Egypt - Colonel Nasser
• Truman doctrine


  The US commitment to fighting Communism
• Marshall aid


  The aid given by the USA after WW2
• SEATO


  The South East Asia Treaty Organisation (1954)
• NATO


  The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (1949)
• First 3 countries to join the Commonwealth

  • Barbados
  • Australia
  • Botswana
• Sterling devaluation under Wilson's Labour

  1964
• Leader and founder of the United Malays National Organisation

  Onn Bin Ja'afar
• Nationalist leaders from West Africa

  • Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana, 1957)
  • Azikiwe (Nigeria, 1960)
• Nationalist leader from East Africa


  Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya, 1963)
• Nationalist leader from Central Africa

  Apolo Milton Obote (Uganda, 1962)
• Nationalist leader from the south of Africa

  Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• Significant colonial administrators


  • Cohen (Uganda)
  • Macpherson (Nigeria)
  • Arden-Clarke (Ghana)
• The first royal broadcast from the British monarch to the Empire
• 115,000 commonwealth immigrants from the West Indies to Britain in 1958
• 55,000 commonwealth immigrants from India and Pakistan to Britain in 1958
• 25,000 commonwealth immigrants from West Africa to Britain in 1968
• 10,000 commonwealth immigrants from Cyprus in 1968
• British Union of Fascists founded by Oswald Mosely


  1948
• Race Relations Board set up


  1965
• Hola Camp atrocities


  1959