Chapter 30 Terms Flashcards

158602550	Kenyatta	1st President of Kenya and leader during the Mau Mau Rebellion	0
158602551	African National Congress	an organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for the black inhabitants of South Africa.	1
158602552	Gold Coast/Ghana	Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.	2
158602553	Nkrumah	(d. 1966) One of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century, was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966.	3
158602554	Organization of African Unity	organization of independent nations of Africa formed in 1963 to support independence movements and economic cooperation and to promote peace	4
158602555	Pan Africanism	Philosophy based on the belief that Africans share common bonds and are a unified people. Adopted this to break from colonial rule.	5
158602556	Neo Colonialism	the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies	6
158602557	Mandela	South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994	7
158602558	Mau Mau	a violent movement in Kenya during the 1960s, led by Kikuyu farmers, to rid the country of white settlers	8
158602559	Gamal Abdul Nasser	dictator in Egypt who wants US to help build Aswan Dam while he's also buying weapons from Soviets; nationalizes Suez Canal	9
158602560	Bangladesh	a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south	10