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| 163315915 | problems with boundaries established by Europe following the end of imperialism | detrimental to development of newly formed independent nations; didn't take into account different ppl groups being put together—>internal strife | 0 | |
| 163315916 | largest barrier to economic growth in Africa | population growth-more than the country could handle | 1 | |
| 163315917 | ways in which Europe contributed to African population growth | new food crops—>better diet—>more people survive; railroad system and steamships—> shippings to people of famine and of growth—>more people survive; war led to disease and famine—>people die | 2 | |
| 163315918 | population growth in Africa compared to Asia | Asia begins to level off. Africa continues to rapidly increase | 3 | |
| 163315919 | factors in high birth rate in third world nations | social and religious beliefs -have a lot of kids=power -lineage -resistance to birth control belief | 4 | |
| 163315920 | chief by-product of population growth in third world countries | mass migration; rural—>urban; cities couldn't hold or provide jobs to people which led to slums | 5 | |
| 163315921 | slums in third world | shantee towns; no water, no electricity, no sewages; trash houses | 6 | |
| 163315922 | problems of rural environment in third world countries | deforestation, overgrazing, soil depletion, industrial pollutants | 7 | |
| 163315923 | cash crops and minerals | selling these was how most third world nations financed industrialization | 8 | |
| 163315924 | neocolonialism | ability of industrialized nations to maintain economic colonialism without political colonialism (without government) | 9 | |
| 163315925 | drawbacks to accepting investment capital from first and second world nations | commitments—>favor investors; how money is invested and repaid; remove state subsidies; establish military bases | 10 | |
| 163315926 | Kwame Nkrumah | leader of Ghana's independence movement; first prime minister of newly independent west African nation of Ghana; initiated programs for universal education and industrial development | 11 | |
| 163315927 | reasons why military takeovers took place frequently in third world countries | -possesses power to restore (not just provoking) -less concerned with destructing consequences -training:emphasis on discipline -anticommunist—attracted Western allies | 12 | |
| 163315928 | Uganda, Idi Amin | nation that serves as example of most oppressive military dictatorship, leader | 13 | |
| 163315929 | Hasan al-Banna | founds Muslim Brotherhood | 14 | |
| 163315930 | Free Officers Movement | military nationalist movement in Egypt; allied with Muslim Brotherhood; led coup to seize Egyptian government from khedive to gain independence from Turks | 15 | |
| 163315931 | Gamal Abdul Nasser | took power after military coup in Egypt; enacted land reforms; used state resources to reduce unemployment; his economic policy: -land reform: limits on ownership of land, excess lands were seized and redistributed to peasants -education was state financed through college made available to Egyptians -cost of basic food staples decreased -state controlled development schemes were introduced (not a slave to foreign investment) | 16 | |
| 163315932 | reforms of military government of Egypt, 1952 | land reform; state financed education through college level made available to Egyptians; government was main employer; state subsidies were used to lower food staple prices; state-contolled development schemes—>industrial growth | 17 | |
| 163315933 | Egypt, 1956 | Nasser's greatest foreign policy achievement of diplomacy | 18 | |
| 163315934 | Aswan dam project | cornerstone of Egyptian development; fiasco-failure; meant to control flooding and electricity; made to produce additional cultivated lands but population boom | 19 | |
| 163315935 | Anwar Sadat | ruled Egypt; huge policy shift during reign- end of strife with Israel (went from anti-Irael to why bother-Israel) | 20 | |
| 163315936 | J. Nehru | governed India in first decades of independence | 21 | |
| 163315937 | Ayatollah Khomeini | rose to power in Iran following a radical revolution | 22 | |
| 163315938 | Iran vs other third world nations | had not been formally colonized by Europeans but rather had been reduced to a sphere of informal influence; China has similar situation | 23 | |
| 163315939 | Portugal | European colonizers that were able to hold onto its colonial possessions in Africa | 24 | |
| 163315940 | nationalist party of S Africa | Afrikaners/Nationalist Party; white supremacy | 25 | |
| 163315941 | "Homelands" | way to separate blacks and whites; under apartheid; areas in SAfrica designated for ethno-linguistic (tribal) groups within black African population; areas tend to be overpopulated and poverty stricken | 26 | |
| 163315942 | methods of suppression used against blacks in South Africa | built police state—>to harass black population; political reforms—>to suppress anti-nationalism -spies and informants—>to scare ppl into submission -favoritism—>discord between various African nationalist groups | 27 | |
| 163315943 | Nelson Mandela | freed black political prisoners; significant because it signaled that whites will be able to negotiate with other governments | 28 | |
| 163315944 | F.W. de Klerk | Afrikaner political leader that was most successful for abolishment of Apartheid system in South Africa | 29 |
