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PBHS 20C Afrcan Ldrs
20th Century African Leaders
Question | Answer |
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took power in coup in UGANDA in 1971 while PM Milton Obote was out of the country? | Idi Amin |
Death squads--Public Safety Unit and State Research Bureau. | Idi Amin |
Allowed Palestinian hijackers to land captured Air France plane at ENTEBBE Airport in 1976 | Idid Amin |
Fled to Saudi Arabia in the 1979 invasion by Tanzania | Idi Amin |
Little Green Book, a collection of his ideas and pan-Arabist ideology | Gaddafi |
Leader of Libya, 1969-2011 | Gaddafi |
"Free Officers Movement" overthrew King Idris I in 1969 putting him in power | Gaddafi |
Blamed for Pan Am Flight 103 down over Scotland killing 270 people | Gaddafi |
Leader of the Kikuyu fought for control of Kenya IN Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s | Kenyatta |
1964, Kenya' first president | Kenyatta |
His slogan was "harambee"--Swahili for "all pull together" | Kenyatta |
Came to power during the "Congo Crisis--led to plane crash death of UN gen. secretary Dag Hammerskjold | Mobutu Sese Seko |
Changed country's name from Congo to Zaire | Mobutu Sese Seko |
Gaddafi "governed" this country | Libya |
Idi Amin was President of | Uganda |
Where was the Mau Mau Rebellion? | Kenya |
First democratically elected President of SA | Mandela |
Mandela shared a Nobel Peace Prize with | (F.W.) de Klerk |
Emperor of Ethiopia 1930 - 1974 | Haile Selassie |
The military government that replaced Selassie was the | Derg (He was overthrown after a severe famine) |
He was exiled to England by Italian fascist forces | Selassie |
Selassie is considered a sacred and messianic figure in this movement | Rastafarian |
Leader of Egypt, 1954-1970; nationalized the Suez Canal | Nasser |
President of United Arab Republic, short-lived federation of Egypt and Syria | Nasser |
Last president of S.A. under apartheid | de Klerk |