year 2- booklet 7

Question 1

Colonial Development Corporation

Answer 1

-1948
-set up to coordinate African projects
-Renamed Commonwealth Development Corporation 1963

Question 2

Burns constitution

Answer 2

-Gold Coast
-1946
-legislative council with 12 Br nominees and 18 elected Africans
-led to riots in Accra and Nkrumah founding CPP 1949

Question 3

Nkrumah imprisonment

Answer 3

-1950
-1951 CPP won 2/3 assembly seats
-1952 Nkrumah PM

Question 4

GC independence

Answer 4

-1957 elections carried out
-6th March 1957 GC independent as Ghana

Question 5

Richards Constitution

Answer 5

-1946
-Nigeria
-increased African representation
-expanded Legislative Council
-3 regional assemblies

Question 6

Macpherson Constitution

Answer 6

-1951
-Nigeria
-extended franchise, national council of ministers responsible to 185 seat of federal house representatives
-regions allowed own govt
-federal house couldn’t overrule regional govt

Question 7

tensions in Nigeria

Answer 7

-parties created on ethnic/ regional lines
-elections 1954 devolved more power to regions (9 ministers from political parties rep 3 regions)

Question 8

Nigeria independence

Answer 8

Oct 1960

Question 9

Sierra Leone & Gambia

Answer 9

-Sierra Leone= 1961 independent
-Gambia= 1965 independent

Question 10

Kenya

Answer 10

-white settler colony
-Nairobi’s population increased by 50% during ww2

Question 11

Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme

Answer 11

-1946
-Tried to grow groundnut for oil
-spent £45mill
-abandoned and the land was left unusable

Question 12

Kikuyu grievences

Answer 12

-treatment by white settlers (being pushed out of fertile ‘white’ highlands) let to resentment

Question 13

Mau Mau uprising

Answer 13

-1952-1856
-100k Mau Mau took blood oath
-1952 declaration of emergency: Kenyatta arrested
-80k ppl detained in concentration camos
-1000 Mau Mau executed

Question 14

Kenyan independence

Answer 14

-1960 elections gave Africans a majority
-Kenyatta led country to independence
-Independent 1963

Question 15

Tanganyika & Uganda

Answer 15

-Tanganyika= 1959 Tanganyikan African Nationalist Union, threatened strikes etc. Independent as Tanzania in 1961
-Uganda= serious tribal divisions (ungovernable). Independent 1962

Question 16

South Africa

Answer 16

-1948 Afrikaner Nationalist Party implemented apartheid
-African Nationalist Congress opposed
-Sharpeville massacre 1960, 69 protestors killed by police
-Br disagreed/ publicly opposed apartheid in Macmillan’s ‘wind of change’ speech 1960

Question 17

Central African Federation

Answer 17

-1953
-inc nyasaland, S & N Rhodesia
-discriminatory legislation vetoed by Br
-disscolved 1963

Question 18

Southern Rhodesia

Answer 18

-1961 white population supported Rhodesian Front Party (independence under white rule)
-1965 PM Ian Smith illegally declared independence
-Br didn’t recognise this, 1969 Rhodesia became a republic and entered a civil war between whites

Question 19

Burma

Answer 19

-1947 talks w/ Aung San led to elections to a constituent assembly 1948
-AFPFL divided
-Aung San assassinated
-Independent 1948

Question 20

Malaya

Answer 20

-UMNO (Malay representation)
-MCA & MCP (Chinese representation)
-1945-8 strikes by Chinese
-1947 Malay citizenship discriminated against

Question 21

Malay Union

Answer 21

-1947 ethnic tensions prevented it

Question 22

federation of malaya

Answer 22

-1948
-executive council= 7 official & 7 unofficial representatives
-legislative council= 62 representatives elected 1955

Question 23

Malayan emergency

Answer 23

-1948-60
-concerns abt communist attacks on rubber plantations
-Henry Gurney assassinated, 6.5k communists dead
-new villages= 1950, relocate 500k squatters from jungle

Question 24

Malayan & Chinese unification

Answer 24

-1952-54 Malay and Chinese unite and win 81% in 1955 election

Question 25

Reid Commission

Answer 25

-1955 drew up democratic constitution
-1957 Malaya independent but remained in sterling area w. Br influence

Question 26

Malaysia

Answer 26

-1963
-Malaya, Singapore etc joined to form Malaysia
-1965 Singapore left Malaysian Union

Question 27

Singapore

Answer 27

-1947/8 own executive/ legislative councils but only 6/25 seats elected

Question 28

Rendell Constitution

Answer 28

-1955
-Singapore
-25/32 elected seats

Question 29

Singapore independence

Answer 29

-1957 full internal self govt
-1959 Lee Kuan Yew (PAP) came to power
-1962 join federation of Malaya but race riots made them leave
-1965 independent