HIST 112- World Civilization II Chapter_29 Quiz Answered

1. 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?

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Chapter Introduction Uhuru: The Struggle for Independence in Africa The Rise of Nationalism The Era of Independence Dreams and Reality: Political and Economic Conditions in Independent Africa

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

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The Destiny of Africa: Unity or Diversity?

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

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The Colonial Legacy Continuity and Change in Modern African Societies What is the Future of Africa?

4. 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?

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The Search for Solutions

5. Discuss the impact of change in Africa over the course of the twentieth century. In what areas of society have there been the most dramatic changes, and where have continuity of traditional ways held fast? Be specific and give examples.

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Africa: A Continent in Flux Continuity and Change in Modern African Societies

6. 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?

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Crescent of Conflict The Question of Palestine The Arab Case of Palestine Nasser and Pan-Arabism

7. 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?

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The Question of Palestine The Arab Case of Palestine The Arab-Israeli Dispute

8. Discuss the experience of women in the Middle East in the twentieth century. Have options and conditions improved? If so, how? If not, why not and what has happened instead?

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The Islamic Revival Women in the Middle East

9. "Islamic traditionalism is defining the present Middle East and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future." Discuss, pro and con.

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Revolution in Iran Revolution in the Middle East Society and Culture in the Contemporary Middle East Varieties of Government: The Politics of Islam The Islamic Revival

10. 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"?

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The Economics of the Middle East: Oil and Sand

11. 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?

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Revolution in Iran Revolution in the Middle East The Islamic Revival

12. 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?

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The Islamic Revival Women in the Middle East

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).

13. uhuru

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Uhuru: The Struggle for Independence in Africa

14. Nelson Mandela

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South Africa: An End to Apartheid

15. Jomo Kenyatta and KANU

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The Rise of Nationalism

16. Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party

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The Rise of Nationalism

17. Mau Mau

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The Rise of Nationalism

18. African National Congress (ANC)

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The Rise of Nationalism

19. "African form of socialism"

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The Destiny of Africa: Unity or Diversity?

20. Organization of African Unity (OAU)

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The Destiny of Africa: Unity or Diversity?

21. neocolonialism

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The Problem of Neocolonialism

22. desertification

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The Population Bomb

23. AIDS

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The Population Bomb

24. Tanzania's Julius Nyerere's Arusha Declaration

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The Destiny of Africa: Unity or Diversity? Tanzania: An African Route to Socialism

25. Kenya and capitalism

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Kenya: The Perils of Capitalism

26. F.W. de Klerk

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South Africa: An End to Apartheid

27. apartheid

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South Africa: An End to Apartheid

28. Nigeria's Christians and Muslims

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Nigeria: A Nation Divided

29. Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo

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Nigeria: A Nation Divided

30. Sudan's Muslim pastoralists and Christian farmers

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Tensions in the Desert

31. Rwanda and Burundi and Hutus and Tutsis

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Central Africa: Cauldron of Conflict

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

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Central Africa: Cauldron of Conflict

33. African Economic Community (AEC), 1991

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The African Union: A Glimmer of Hope

34. Abioseh Nicol's "A Truly Married Woman"

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Urban Women

35. genital mutilation and polygamy

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36. Wole Soyinka

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Literature

37. Israel and Palestine

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I Accuse! The Arab Case for Palestine The Question of Palestine

38. Pan-Africanism

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The Destiny of Africa: Unity or Diversity?

39. Palestinian refugees

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The Question of Palestine

40. Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser and the Suez Canal

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Nasser and Pan-Arabism

41. King Farouk

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Nasser and Pan-Arabism

42. Pan-Arabism

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Nasser and Pan-Arabism

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

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The United Arab Republic

44. David Ben Gurion

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The Question of Palestine The Arab-Israeli Dispute

45. 1967 Six-Day War, the West Bank and the Golan Heights

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The Six-Day War

46. 1973 Yom Kippur War

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The Six-Day War

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

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The Camp David Agreement

48. intifada

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The PLO and the Intifada

49. Persian Gulf and oil

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Revolution in Iran Crisis in the Persian Gulf The Vision of Saddam Hussein

50. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

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Modernist Islam

51. Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

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The Return to Tradition

52. "the great Satan"

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Revolution in Iran

53. Iran's Muhmmad Ahmadinejad

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The Fall of the Shah

54. Iran-Iraq War

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The Vision of Saddam Hussein

55. Saddam Hussein and Kuwait

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The Vision of Saddam Hussein

56. Operation Desert Storm

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Operation Desert Storm

57. the Taliban and Osama bin Laden

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Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq

58. Iraq's Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Kurds

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Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq

59. African Union

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The African Union: A Glimmer of Hope

60. Muslim Brotherhood

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Varieties of Government: The Politics of Islam

61. Islamic women and the veil and chador

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Literature

62. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy

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Literature

63. Islamic Modernism

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Modernist Islam

64. Golda Meir

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Women in the Middle East

65. 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

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e

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The Destiny of Africa: Unity or Diversity?

66. 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.

was highly destructive.

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d

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The Colonial Legacy

67. Among the selectively distributed benefits of Western colonial rule in Africa was/were

a.

universal public schooling in all British and Portuguese colonies.

b.

medical care, sanitation, and transportation.

c.

a well-developed industrial nucleus in the Gold Coast.

d.

nuclear power plants in Zimbabwe.

e.

pearl fisheries in Libya.

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b

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The Colonial Legacy

68. As African freedom movements became increasingly violent by the mid twentieth century, ____ promised to grant its colonies eventual independence.

a.

Great Britain

b.

Portugal

c.

Spain

d.

United States