Chap 30 Africa and the Middle East

Africa

• African Independence– 1950’s-1960’s- France and Great Britain

• 1957- Kwame Nkrumah- Gold Coast- Ghana – Nigeria, Congo, Kenya- 1960 seventeen emerged- 60’s- 11 more

– 1954- National Liberation Front- 1962 Algeria – South Africa- 1950’s- Apartheid- Sharpeville

Massacre- 69 Deaths• http

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2mAwyR6_k – Nelson Mandela- 1962

• Capitalism vs. Socialism- Kenya, Congo- Tanzania, Guinea – Pan-Africanism- Organization of African Unity- 32

countries to 52• Problems- Liberia-Nigeria- AIDS- Wibenzi– Politics- 57-82- 70 Leaders were killed- Ethnic

problems and boundaries • Ibo in Nigeria- Tutsi vs. Hutu- Rwanda- 500,000 dead

• Hope- Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grh03-NjHzc

• Culture in Modern Africa- Cities look like European cities- rural areas are rough – Women’s role- vote, work and maternal societies-

Chinua Achebe- “Things fall apart”

• Pg. 921- graph, pg. 922 1-3, pg. 924- pic question, pg. 927- Question 2-7

The Middle East

• Palestine in 1948- May 14th-15th- – Egypt- 1956- Abdel Nasser- Suez Canal- war with

Great Britain – Pan-Arabism- United Arab Republic • 1967- Nasser blockade against Israel- Israel responded

– Took the West Bank- Anar el-SAdat- 1973-4- OPEC

• Palestine Liberation Organization- PLO- Al-Fatah- Yasir Arafat – Intifada- uprising- 1967- 2003 – Iran- Ayatollah Khomeini- 1979- republic- 1989- Sunni Muslim – Iraq- Saddam Hussein- 1979- Mine fields and Gas on the

Kurds• 1990- Kuwait- and in 2003- Weapons of Mass destruction

– Afghanistan- 1979 and USSR- Al-Qaeda and the Taliban- 1996

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-oaUqvAS8&feature=related

• Society – Islamic Revivalism- Western Jihad- Al-Qaeda plans • Unfavorable thoughts of Islam

– Women’s Role- 1970’s traditional role

• Pg. 934- 1-6, pg. 935 1-2