Congo

I. Speedy Belgian withdrawal

A. King Baudouin II

B. Independence, 30 June 1960

1) Patrice Lumumba

2) Joseph Kasavubu

II. Artificial borders, vast size, tribal diversity

III. Force Publique’s Revolt

IV. Secession of Katanga

A. Tshombe

V. UN intervention

VI. People’s Republic of the Congo

VII. Mobutu’s coup

South Central Africa

I. Cecil Rhodes

A. British South African Company

II. Northern Rhodesia=Crown Colony, 1924

III. Southern Rhodesia=“self-governing colony,” 1923

IV. Central African Federation, 1953

A. Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland

V. “Massacre Plot” in Nyasaland, 1959

A. Devlin Report

B. Clearing of Dr. Hastings Banda

VI. Independent Malawi, 6 July 1964

VII. Independent Zambia, 24 Oct 1964

Rhodesia

I. White Settler agitation

II. African nationalist agitation

A. Zimbabwe African People’s Union

B. Zimbabwe African National Union

III. Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 11 Nov 1965

IV. British economic sanctions

V. Support from South Africa and Mozambique

VI. Independent Zimbabwe, 18 April 1980

VII. Shona-Ndebele conflict

A. Robert Mugabe

Colonial Rebellion in Indochina

I. French Colonization, 1867

II. Ho Chi Minh

A. Vietminh

B. Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)

III. Dien Bien Phu, May 1954

IV. Geneva Accords, 1954

V. SEATO