Deck 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"African form of socialism"

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Describe the economic role of the oil industry and its relationship to political stability or instability in the nations of the Middle East.Are there policies by which outside powers can aid in creating stability there,or have they already "done too much"?

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Is it accurate to claim that Turkey and Iran,both non-Arabic societies,may be the two most influential countries in the Middle East? Why or why not?

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Do the factors underlying fundamentalism in Islam,Judaism and Christianity have any common causes or consequences? Why or why not?

Question 5

Why has the Arab-Israeli dispute proven so difficult to resolve? Does a solution seem any more likely now than during the 1970s or 1980s? Why or why not?

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Mau Mau

Question 7

Is the Republic of South Africa,Egypt or Nigeria likely to be the most important state in Africa in thirty years? What evidence causes you to think as you do?

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Organization of African Unity (OAU)

Question 9

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Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party

Question 10

Fifty years after independence,what are the present responsibilities,if any,that the former imperialist European nations owe to Africa?

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
African National Congress (ANC)

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
uhuru

Question 13

"Islamic fundamentalism is the defining movement in the present Middle East and will remain so into the foreseeable future." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
negritude/"blackness"

Question 15

What problems did the European concept of 'Nation State' pose for Africa and the Middle East after World War II,and what alternatives to communal identity were proposed in these regions? To what extent were/are these alternatives realized?

Question 16

What has been the significance of the concepts of Pan-Africanism and nationalism in the development of the independent nations of Africa?

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Jomo Kenyatta and KANU

Question 18

What arguments have Islamic modernists advanced a)in favor of the rights of women in Islamic states,and b)against both historical and present-day violent pan-Islamic actions?

Question 19

Is it realistic to argue that the Muslim societies of North Africa are so different from those of sub-Saharan Africa that they actually have nothing in common except geographic proximity and the fact that both are ex-colonial areas? Why or why not?

Question 20

Compare and contrast developments in the Middle East during the era preceding World War II with those of the war years and after.Are the changes due primarily to the war's impact on the peoples of the Middle East or on other factors? Why?

Question 21

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"neocolonialism"

Question 22

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Nigeria's Christians and Muslims

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).F.W.de Klerk and Nelson Mandela

Question 24

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Sudan's Muslim pastoralists and Christian farmers

Question 25

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"apartheid" and "Bantustans"

Question 26

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HIV and AIDS

Question 27

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Israel and Palestine

Question 28

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Kenya and capitalism

Question 29

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Rwanda and Burundi and Hutus and Tutsis

Question 30

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Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser and the Suez Canal

Question 31

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African Economic Community (AEC),1991

Question 32

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genital mutilation and polygamy

Question 33

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Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo

Question 34

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Palestinian refugees

Question 35

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"desertification"

Question 36

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Tanzania's Julius Nyerere's Arusha Declaration

Question 37

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from Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Lauren Kabila

Question 38

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Abioseh Nicol's "A Truly Married Woman"

Question 39

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1948 Israeli-Arab war

Question 40

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Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters

Question 41

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David Ben Gurion

Question 42

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Saddam Hussein and Kuwait

Question 43

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1967 Six-Day War,the West Bank and the Golan Heights

Question 44

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Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Question 45

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Muslim Brotherhood

Question 46

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Persian Gulf and oil

Question 47

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intifada

Question 48

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Syria's Ba'ath Party

Question 49

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"the great Satan"

Question 50

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Pan-Arabism and the United Arab Republic

Question 51

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Operation Desert Storm

Question 52

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the Taliban and Osama bin Laden

Question 53

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Yasir Arafat,the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),and al-Fatah

Question 54

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Iraq's Sunnis,Shi'ites,and Kurds

Question 55

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Iran's Mohammad Khatemi and Muhmmad Ahmadinejad

Question 56

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Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin,and the Camp David Agreement

Question 57

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"Islamic fundamentalism"

Question 58

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Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Question 59

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1973 Yom Kippur War

Question 60

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Iran-Iraq War

Question 61

In terms of the chronology of decolonization,it is accurate to say that

A)the first black African nation to become independent was the Congo,called the Banana Coast.
B)the African National Congress became increasingly radical as its modest initial goals were rejected by white South African governments.
C)Ahmad Ben Bella convinced Britain to proclaim Sudanese independence in 1988.
D)Portugal left Angola in 1949.
E)France willingly granted Algeria its independence in 1948.

Question 62

In the years since the nations of Africa attained independence

A)economic wealth,but not social equality,has been achieved in all of Africa except the Republic of South Africa.
B)most of the governments have not been pluralistic democracies.
C)the goal of economic prosperity has been broadly achieved.
D)social equality has become the norm.
E)communism has taken permanent root in a majority of the nations south of the Sahara.

Question 63

The Pan-African belief in a distinctive "African personality" included all except it

A)was a defensive response rejecting views of Western racial superiority.
B)assumes that there is a distinctive African personality.
C)says that African blackness has a humanistic,emotional nature that is different from that of Western materialism.
D)is believed to provide a common sense of destiny for all black Africans.
E)the belief that all persons of African heritage should return to their motherland.

Question 64

In his Arusha Declaration of 1967,Julius Nyerere attempted to

A)establish a system of socialism and self-reliance.
B)take advantage of the multi-party system in Tanzania.
C)permit personal incomes to grow as much as they could.
D)initiate economic programs in the villages that would become totally entrepreneurial.
E)"jump-start" his nation's economy with a system of free-market capitalism.

Question 65

The following are true of the African National Congress except

A)it was originally led by Western-inclined intellectuals who had little popular support.
B)it was initially aimed at achieving full equality for the educated native population through peaceful means.
C)its policies met with cooperative reactions from the white majority who held power.
D)in time,its policies became more prone to the use of violence to achieve its goals.
E)its original goal was to achieve economic and political reforms "within the system."

Question 66

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Golda Meir

Question 67

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Islamic Modernism

Question 68

Which of the following is not a proper match of colonial / post-colonial names of African countries?

A)Gold Coast / Ghana
B)Belgian Congo / Zaire
C)Tanganyika / Tanzania
D)Zanzibar / Tanzania
E)Namibia / Kenya

Question 69

The Western presence in Africa left a legacy that

A)was entirely negative.
B)disappeared immediately when the colonial powers withdrew.
C)was overwhelmingly positive in its impact.
D)mixed,with both positive and negative results.
E)both b and c

Question 70

The East African term for the people who have achieved a high level of financial success is

A)hokees.
B)dash.
C)wabenzi.
D)chai.
E)bonsella.

Question 71

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Islamic women and the veil and chador

Question 72

After World War II,many educated Asians and Africans questioned which European concept of communal identity?

A)the nuclear family
B)global organization
C)village and tribal identity
D)dynastic rule
E)the nation state

Question 73

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy

Question 74

African economic growth has been limited by all of the following except

A)scarce resources were squandered upon military equipment.
B)the necessity to import technology and manufactured goods from the West.
C)the spread of AIDS.
D)excessive water pollution by Africa's successful industrial development.
E)single crop or resource-dependent national economies.

Question 75

Among the selectively distributed benefits of Western civilization in Africa in the 1940s were

A)universal public schooling in all British and Portuguese colonies.
B)railway networks and other industrial sectors in Algeria and South Africa.
C)a well-developed industrial nucleus in the Gold Coast.
D)nuclear power plants in Zimbabwe.
E)pearl fisheries in Libya.

Question 76

Uhuru is the famous Swahili word for

A)holy war.
B)freedom.
C)guerilla war.
D)nationalism.
E)superiority.

Question 77

It can be said that,by the late 1960s,

A)Mozambique and Angola were still controlled by Portugal.
B)all of Africa had achieved independence.
C)the French colonies in Africa had still not achieved independence.
D)even Canada had at last agreed to free Gambia.
E)de Gaulle's French Community had produced increased colonial structures in Nigeria.

Question 78

Economic development in Africa has been difficult for all of the following except

A)AIDS.
B)a declining population.
C)a too rapid population growth.
D)the vast differences between rural and urban Africans.
E)ethnic rivalries.

Question 79

In regard to agricultural development in colonial Africa,it can be said that

A)the European "Green Revolution" seeds saved millions of lives in the 1930s.
B)most export profits were returned to local populations.
C)most of the native rural population grew their crops solely for their own sustenance.
D)modern industrial development was relevant to the crop production of most Africans.
E)after 1963 opium was shipped from Africa to Afghanistan.

Question 80

All of the following were results of European colonialism in Africa except

A)the spread of Islam.
B)a native wage scale that was inferior to that of the Europeans.
C)Africans were usually restricted to unskilled or semi-skilled jobs.
D)little opportunity for the native population to obtain professional or managerial positions.
E)a mixed heritage of imperialism.