Chapter 23
Africa & the Middle East
1945-present
GGGG Review
Identify
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apartheid
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Pan-Africanism
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widespread epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Zionists
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idea of unity of all black Africans
AIDS
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system of social segregation in South Africa
group that wanted Palestine to be a Jewish homeland
the United Arab Republic
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short lived union of Egypt and Syria starting in 1958
Identify
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OPEC
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Pan-Arabism
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South African bishop and Nobel Peace prize winner
Chinua Achebe
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concept of Arab unity
Desmond Tutu
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bloc of oil-producing states formed in 1960
Nigerian novelist
Saddam Hussein
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Iraqi military leader who invaded Kuwait in 1990
What was the “African form of
socialism” based on?
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African traditions of community
What factors hindered economic
prosperity in many African nations?
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overdependence on a single crop or natural
resource
high population growth
widespread drought and resulting hunger and
starvation
Why do African nations today
include widely divergent ethnic,
linguistic, and territorial groups?
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most national boundaries were arbitrarily drawn
by colonial powers
What did the ANC do after the arrest
of Nelson Mandela?
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called for armed resistance to white rule in
South Africa
What eventually brought an end to
apartheid in South Africa?
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worldwide pressure on de Klerk’s government
What was the impact on the
Palestinians as a result of the UN
resolution dividing Palestine?
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many Palestinians fled to neighboring Arab
states
some Palestinians came under Israeli rule
many Palestinian people were forced to live in
refugee camps
What was Great Britain’s policy on
the creation of an independent
Jewish state in Palestine?
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Great Britain rejected the idea of an
independent Jewish state in Palestine
What action did Nasser take in
Egypt in 1956?
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Nasser seized the Suez Canal Company from
Britain and France
What territories did Israel gain
control of during the Six-Day War?
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the Sinai Peninsula
West Bank territory
the Golan Heights
What did some militant Palestinian
Arabs begin in the occupied
territories during the 1980’s?
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they led an intifada or “uprising” in the
territories occupied by Israel