Patrice Lumumba
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12th
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12th
grade
12 questions
Choose the correct answer.
What is the best definition of "Decolonization"
It is the action of appropriating a place or domain for one's own use.
It is an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state.
It is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby a nation establishes and maintains its domination on overseas territories.
Choose the correct answer.
This character was a hero of the Congolese independence and the only elected leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960.
Mobutu Sese Seko
Nelson Mandela
Patrice Lumumba
True or false
Anti-imperialism means to be against being ruled by another country. Not wanting an imperial country to control another nation
True
False
.............refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation.
Martyr
Anti-imperialism
Nationalist Movement
We have experienced forced labor in exchange for pay that did not allow us to satisfy our hunger, to clothe ourselves, to have decent lodgings or to bring up our children as dearly loved ones. Morning, noon and night we were subjected to jeers, insults and blows because we were "Negroes." -Lumumba’s Independence Day Speech, June 30, 1960.
How does Lumumba describe Belgian colonialism in his speech?
As kind rulers how treated the people of Congo with equality
As rulers how stood up for the rights of the people of Congo
As rulers how were cruel and treated the people of congo as slaves
As rulers who let the people of Congo rule themselves and did not bother them.
Lumumba Moves to Consolidate Power in the Congo: The government formed by Congo Premier-designate Patrice Lumumba is “weak” and has a “strong leftist tinge” -CIA Daily Brief. June 27, 1960
How does this document describe Lumumba?
As an experienced and strong leader
As a great ally to the United States
As an inexperience leader with communist tendencies
From the beginning of the crisis, it was clear that it led to a fundamental split between Lumumba and the Belgian government and that gradually, not only the Belgian government, but also many other governments and many layers of Belgian and Congolese society were campaigning . . . to bring about Lumumba’s downfall politically. - “The Conclusions of the Enquiry Committee,” 2001.
According to this document who wanted to take down Lumumba?
Belgium government
Congolese Government
The US
All of the above
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