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Independent Africa
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Workers' organizations that gave Africans political experience
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trade unions
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Usual number of political parties in an African country
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one
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People who have carried out many coups since the mid-1960s
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army (military) leaders
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Most common government and economic system in Africa
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socialism
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Type of workers in short supply
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skilled workers
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Common state of African economies
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underdeveloped
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South Africa's policy of "apartness," or separation of the races
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apartheid
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Organization of all the continent's independent states, established in 1963
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the Organization of African Unity (OAU)
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All African states broke relations with this nation by 1974.
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Israel
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Many African nations became associate members of this European economic organization.
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the EEC
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The OAU granted observer status to this Arab organization by 1973.
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the PLO
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Continued control of former colonies' economies by colonial powers
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neocolonialism
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Main stumbling block to African unity
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ethnic/tribal divisions
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British colonies where the earliest nationalist parties grew
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Nigeria and Ghana
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Most African economies had a poor balance between these two elements at independence.
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industry and agriculture
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The Pan-African movement started with these people.
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American and West Indian blacks
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Meeting open to all black people, not just African governments
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the Pan-African Congress
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Agreement of 1975 that linked both ex-British and ex-French colonies with the EEC
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the Lome Convention
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A U.N. body for Africa established in 1958
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the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
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The single most important influence on the rise of African nationalism
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World War II
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Meeting of 1944 to determine the common future of France and its African colonies
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the Brazzaville Conference
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First independent British Commonwealth Colony; it gained independence in 1957
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Ghana
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The former British colonies all joined this British group
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the Commonwealth
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Terrorist Kikuyu movement in Kenya
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the Mau Mau
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Country that included the kingdom of Buganda
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Uganda
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Country with the first African government in colonial Africa
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Ghana
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Landless Kenyan people who fought a guerrilla war against whites
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the Kikuyu
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Countries that united to form Tanzania
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Tanganyika and Zanzibar
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Nigeria's most valuable export
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oil
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South African police fired on an unarmed crowd here in 1960.
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Sharpeville
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Black town near Johannesburg; site of 1976 riots
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Soweto
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Britain opposed this colony's independence, declared by the white minority
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Rhodesia
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Ghana's former name
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the Gold Coast
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Site of 1976 Israeli commando raid on a hijacked airliner in Uganda
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Entebbe
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These were outlawed by South Africa's Immorality Act of 1950.
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sexual relations and marriage between races
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In this country, much of the north is Muslim, and much of the south Christian.
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Nigeria
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The 1953 union of Malawi, Zambia, and Southern Rhodesia
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the Central African Federation
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Homelands for South African blacks
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Bantustans
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Rhodesia's new name under African rule
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Zimbabwe
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The two South African opposition parties banned in 1960
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the African National Congress, the Pan-African Congress
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Kenya's nationalist leader and first president
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Jomo Kenyatta
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South African nationalist leader jailed for 27 years and elected president in 1994
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Nelson Mandela
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South African bishop; 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Desmond Tutu
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French government leader who supported colonies' independence
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Charles de Gaulle
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Uganda's notorious dictator; forced from office in 1978
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Idi Amin
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Emperor of Ethiopia; deposed in 1974
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Haile Selassie
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Ghana's nationalist leader and first president
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Senegalese leader and noted poet
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Leopold Senghor
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Guinea's first president elected in 1958; a nationalist leader
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Sekou Toure
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1st premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - forced from office and killed in 1961
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Patrice Lumumba
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First president of both Tanganyika and Tanzania
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Julius Nyerere
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Uganda's nationalist leader
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Milton Obote
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Prime minister of Rhodesia who declared independence in 1965
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Ian Smith
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First Zambian president, a nationalist leader
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Kenneth Kaunda
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Leader who became Cote d'Iviore's first president in 1960
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Felix Houphouet-Boigny
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African nationalist leaders of Southern Rhodesia
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Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe
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South African leader who urged nonviolence; 1961 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Albert Luthuli
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Apartheid leader assassinated in parliament in 1966
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Hendrik Verwoerd
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Former U.S. professor, founder of modern Mozambique nationalism; assassinated in 1969
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Eduardo Mondlane
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Longtime leader who changed his country's name from Congo to Zaire
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Mobuto Sese Seko (Joseph Mobuto)
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South African president who began the dismantling of apartheid laws
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F.W. de Klerk
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How the French people decided on the colonies' independence
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by referendum (vote)
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France outlawed this kind of labor in its colonies in 1946.
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forced labor
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First and last European colonial power
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Portugal
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The Portuguese who rebelled and ended the colonial wars
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the Portuguese army
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The three Portuguese colonies that fought wars of independence
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Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique
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New name of the Portuguese Guinea in 1974
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Guinea-Bissau
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French colony with the earliest mass political involvement
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the Cote d'Iviore
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Former South West Africa; became independent in 1990
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Namibia
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Cameroon + Gabon + Republic of the Congo + Chad + Central African Republic = this territory.
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French Equatorial Africa
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Eastern country whose starvation and anarchy caught the world's attention in the early 1990s
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Somalia
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A force from this organization was sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960.
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the United Nations
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Country that experienced tragic conflict between its Tutsi and Hutu peoples
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Rwanda
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Mining center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that declared independence in 1960
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Katanga
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A West African peace-keeping force intervened in this country in 1990.
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Liberia
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Area that became federated with Ethiopia in 1952
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Eritrea
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The former French Somali Coast
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Djibouti
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Formerly Upper Volta, renamed in 1984
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Burkina Faso
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Former Portuguese colony plagued by a 16-year civil war
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Angola
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New name for Dahomey
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Benin
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