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Chapter 30 Africa/ME
Africa and the Middle East since WWII
Question | Answer |
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Nationalist leader who changed the name of the Gold Coast to Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah |
Policy of strict racial separation in South Africa where the white minority ruled over the black majority | Apartheid |
Small plots of land in South Africa under apartheid that were very poor where blacks were relocated to. | Homelands |
Anti-apartheid leader who was imprisoned for 27 years. Became the symbol of the anti-apartheid movement and the 1st black president of South Africa. | Nelson Mandela |
Nationalist leader of Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta |
Movement for unity among all Africans. | Pan-Africanism |
Product that is grown for sale rather than for feeding the population (example: tobacco) | cash crop |
The spread of this disease has crippled sub-Saharan Africa | HIV/AIDS |
Loyalty to one's tribe rather than to the group (a reason for so much ethnic conflict in Africa) | tribalism |
Location of the genocide in 1994 where the Hutu majority slaughtered the Tutsi minority | Rwanda |
Region of the Sudan where African tribal groups are targeted by the janjaweed militias supported by the Arab government headquartered in Khartoum. | Darfur |
Organization in South Africa whose original purpose was to end apartheid | African National Congress |
Movement to create a Jewish Homeland in Palestine | Zionism |
Oil cartel mostly responsible for the price of oil. | OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) |
War between Israel and its neighbors that resulted in the tripling of the size of Israel | Six-Day War |
Agreement in which Egypt became the first Arab nation to recognize Israel's "right to exist" | Camp David Accords |
Islamic movment to return to the "traditional" practices of Islam and "traditional" interpretations of the Quran. Often leads to a decrease in the rights of women. Examples: Iranian Revolution in 1979 and the Taliban in Afghanistan. | Islamic Fundamentalism |
System designed to limit the movement of black South Africans under apartheid | Pass system |
Incident where South African police shot into a crowd of anti-pass protesters. | Sharpeville massacre |