UNIT SECTION TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Assignment
Date
38
Africa PowerPoint Notes
10/13
39
Kashmir Problems and
Solutions
10/14
40
Unit 2 Review Sheet
10/14
41
Arab- Israeli PPT Notes
10/16
42
Suez Crisis Reading
10/16
43
Suez Crisis Notes
10/16
Date: 10/16/14
Activity: Africa
Warm Up: Why did so
many African nations
fall into civil war soon
after they gained
independence?
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Homework:
*Suez Crisis Reading and
Notes due Monday
10/20
*Unit 2 Review Sheet due
Tuesday 10/21
*Unit 2 Test Wednesday
10/22
Today’s Warm Up:
Why did so many African nations fall into
civil war soon after gained their
independence?
-There was a lot of instability and corruption,
violence an authoritarianism
MODERN AFRICA (1945-PRESENT)
THE END OF COLONIALISM IN AFRICA
• BY THE EARLY 1900s
NATIONALISM (PRIDE
& DEVOTION TO
ONE’S COUNTRY)
WAS EVIDENT IN
AFRICA.
• NATIONALISM GREW
OUT OF A DESIRE TO
END EUROPEAN
RULE.
AFRICA: POST WW II
• AS WW II ENDED,
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS
GAINED STRENGTH IN
AFRICA.
• THE WAR WEAKENED
COLONIAL POWERS SUCH AS
ENGLAND & FRANCE.
• THE USSR CONDEMNED
IMPERIALISM & AIDED SOME
NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS.
• THE U.S. SPOKE OUT
AGAINST COLONIALISM.
NEW NATIONS EMERGE
• SLOWLY EUROPEAN
NATIONS REALIZED
THEY MUST GIVE UP
THEIR COLONIAL
EMPIRES.
• IN 1950 AFRICA HAD
ONLY 4 INDEPENDENT
NATIONS (LIBERIA,
ETHIOPIA, EGYPT &
SOUTH AFRICA).
• DURING THE 1950s & 60s,
AFRICAN DEMANDS FOR
FREEDOM LED TO THE
BIRTH OF MANY NEW
NATIONS.
COMMON PROBLEMS
• IN THE MODERN
ERA, MUCH OF
AFRICA HAS
STRUGGLED
WITH:
– POVERTY
– HEALTH ISSUES
– OTHER QUALITY
OF LIFE ISSUES
– WAR & GENOCIDE
• POVERTY IN
POVERTY
AFRICA IS
HIGHER THAN IN
OTHER
DEVELOPING
REGIONS.
• MANY AFRICANS
LACK THE
INCOME
NECESSARY TO
SATISFY BASIC
HUMAN NEEDS
(FOOD, SHELTER,
HEALTHCARE).
IN AFRICA
HEALTH ISSUES
• AFRICA HAS THE WORLD’S
HIGHEST INFANT
MORTALITY RATE…
• LACK OF BASIC
HEALTHCARE
• THE AIDS (ACQUIRED
IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
SYNDROME) EPIDEMIC HAS
BEEN RAVISHING AFRICA
SINCE THE DISEASE WAS
IDENTIFIED IN 1980:
– IN 2001 40 MILLION PEOPLE
WERE SICK WITH AIDS OR
INFECTED WITH HIV, THE
VIRUS THAT CAUSES AIDS.
AIDS IN AFRICA
•
•
70% OF THE WORLD’S
VICTIMS LIVE IN AFRICA.
REASONS FOR HIGH
AFRICAN AIDS RATES:
–
–
–
–
SOCIAL NORMS
POVERTY
LACK OF EDUCATION
POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE
•
HIV/AIDS IS A THREAT
TO PHYSICAL HEALTH
AND ALSO TO
ECONOMIC HEALTH,
EXACERBATING
AFRICA’S CHRONIC
POVERTY.
•
PBS/Frontline: The Age of Aids (13 min 29 sec)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s466q90&continuous=1
OTHER QUALITY OF LIFE CONCERNS
• POLITICAL CORRUPTION
• WORLD’S LOWEST
LITERACY RATE
• LACK OF SAFE DRINKING
WATER
• LOWEST LIFE
EXPECTANCY RATES:
– U.S.: 77
– WORLD: 63
– AFRICA: 52
CIVIL WAR AND GENOCIDE
• CIVIL WAR OCCURRED
BECAUSE AFRICAN STATES
HAVE FREQUENTLY BEEN
HAMPTERED BY INSTABILITY,
CORRUPTION, VIOLENCE AND
AUTHORITARIANISM
• GENOCIDE IS THE DELIBERATE,
SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF A
GROUP OF PEOPLE BECAUSE
OF THEIR RACE, RELIGION OR
ETHNICITY.