1. Chap 30 Africa and the Middle East

2. 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

4. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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