what two groups were suppose to form new states out of the former palestine in 1947? israelis and...
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What two groups were suppose to form new states out of the former Palestine
in 1947?
Israelis and Arab Palestinians
Which group was the first to form a state? What nation
immediately recognized this state?
The Israelis, the United States
Why did the Palestinians refuse to immediately
form a state of their own?
they didn’t want to show that they agreed with the
division of land
What was the outcome of the 1967 Six Days’ War in
the middle east?
Israel won a huge victory and occupied a lot of new
territory
Name two of the territories that Israel has occupied since the 1967
war.
Golan Heights, West Bank, part of the Gaza strip
What was the key outcome, especially for
the U.S., of the Yom Kippur War of 1973?
Israel held their territory, OPEC put an embargo on
oil to the U.S.
Why were the Camp David Accords of 1978 a
big step forward?
Egypt and Israel agreed to ongoing peace talks
What organization did not want the peace process to continue and resorted to terrorism in the 1980s?
the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)
After a decade of progress toward peace, how has the
process recently turned violent?
Palestinian suicide bombers and an Israeli military
crackdown
What was the policy of racial separation in South
Africa called? Roughly how long was it in force?
apartheid, 90-100 years
What leader of the ANC was imprisoned for 30 years, but
later became president of SA?
Nelson Mandela
Name two of the proposed ways to draw boundaries for the new
African nations.
colonial boundaries, tribal areas, pan-africanism (all
people in one nation)
What kind of governments were most often formed by
the leaders of the respective nationalist
movements?
authoritarian one-party states
What African nation led the way toward independence after WWII? Who was their
leader?
Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah
Identify three of the major challenges facing
the new nations in Africa.
dictatorship, lack of infrastructure, old tribal
tensions, healthcare/disease, reliance on foreign
intervention
Who led the revolutions that broke out across Latin
America in the early 1800’s? What class/group was left
out?
the Creole elite, the natives
Who did the U.S. support in Nicaragua in the early
1980’s? Why?
the contras, they were fighting the communist
Sandinistas
Who appealed to the working class to gain power in Argentina? Who was his
famous wife?
Juan Peron, Evita
What event eventually ended military rule in Argentina in the early
1980’s?
the failed invasion of the Falkland Islands