Starter quiz
- The British policy of maintaining a navy which was larger than the next two largest navies combined is known as ...
- 'two-power standard' ✓
- Which of the following statements about unemployment after WW1 in Britain is correct?
- There was more unemployment after WW1 ✓
- There was less unemployment after WW1
- Levels of unemployment were the same after WW1
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- Which of the following statements best describes the empire towards the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries?
- The empire was at the peak of its imperial power
- The empire was in a trend of imperial decline ✓
- The empire continued to maintain its status on the world stage
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- Which of the following statements is an accurate definition of imperial anxiety?
- the sense of unease within an empire due to ideological beliefs
- the sense of unease within an empire due to potential threats to its power ✓
- the sense of unease within an empire due to its immediate decline
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- Which of the following statements is a correct definition of nationalism?
- a group of countries or provinces ruled from the centre
- support for the political independence of a country ✓
- gradual and continuous loss of strength
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- Which of the following events were designed to show the supremacy of the British Empire?
- The Don Pacifico Affair
- Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee ✓
- The National Efficiency movement
- The Great Exhibition ✓
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Exit quiz
- To which countries did Britain owe money after WW2?
- Canada ✓
- Germany
- America ✓
- France
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- This keyword means to divide into parts
- 'Partition' ✓
- The international organisation consisting of states which once belonged to the British Empire is known as...
- The United Nations
- The Atlantic Charter
- The Commonwealth ✓
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- Which of the following statements are outcomes of Indian independence in 1947?
- India was a single, unified state
- India was partitioned into two states ✓
- There was widespread migration and violence ✓
- Independence was received in India peacefully
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- Match the country with the year in which it became independent
- Nigeria⇔1960 ✓
- Uganda⇔1962 ✓
- Jamaica⇔1962 ✓
- Trinidad and Tobego⇔1962 ✓
- Kenya⇔1963 ✓
- Barbados⇔1966 ✓
- Which of the following partitioned Palestine into two states?
- The United Nations ✓
- The League of Nations
- Britain
- Israel
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Key learning points
- Britain had emerged from the Second World War as a diminished power, reliant on America.
- After the Second World War, a wave of nationalist movements took place in the colonies.
- India gained its independence from Britain in 1947 which led to the partition of India and Pakistan.
- In 1948, Palestine was partitioned into two separate independent states: Israel and Palestine.
- In the 1960s, independence was granted to many of Britain's African and Caribbean colonies.
Common misconception
The effects of decolonisation were positive for countries newly independent from the British Empire.
For many newly independent nations, freedom brought many difficulties as well as benefits.
Keywords
Nationalism - nationalism is the support for the political independence of a country
Decolonise - to decolonise is to withdraw from a colony, leaving it independent
Partition - to partition is to divide into parts
Commonwealth - the Commonwealth is an international organisation consisting of states which once belonged to the British Empire
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