Glencoe World History 2008 Chapter 30 Content and Academic Vocabulary – Flashcards
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apartheld
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"apartness," the system of racial segregation in South Africa from the 1950s until 1991
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AIDS
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acquired immune deficiency syndrome; caused by the HIV virus that is spread through bodily fluids and weakens the body's immune system; AIDS is a worldwide problem
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Pan-Africanism
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the unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries
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goal
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an aim or a purpose
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diverse
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varied and not alike
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Ghana
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Gold Coast; a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
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Kwame Nkrumah
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founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first priesident
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South Africa
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a republic at the southernmost part of Africa
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Jomo Kenyatta
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Leader of colonial opposition in Kenya
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Kenya
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a republic in eastern Africa
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Julius Nyerere
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Tanzania
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Liberia
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a republic in West Africa
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Nigeria
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a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
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Rwanda
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a landlocked republic in central Africa
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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a republic in central Africa
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Sudan
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a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea
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Nelson Mandela
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South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)
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Desmond Tutu
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a Nobel Peace Prize winner; also a Bishop
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Chinua Achebe
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Author of Things Fall Apart
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Noni Jabavu
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Author of The Ochre People
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Pan-Arabism
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Arab unity, regardless of national boundaries
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intifada
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"uprising," militant movement that arose during the 1980s among supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization living in Israel
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resolution
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an expression of opinion or intent
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Zionists
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an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel
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Israel
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Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Egyptian statesman/colonel who nationalized the Suez Canal
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Sinai Peninsula
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a peninsula in northeastern Egypt
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West Bank
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an area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river
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Anwar el-Sadat
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Egyptian leader after Nasser
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OPEC
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; formed to control the price of oil
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Menachem Begin
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Israeli Prime Minister who signed the Camp David Accords in 1979
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Yasir Arafat
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leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and his goal was the destruction of Israel
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Iran
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a theocratic islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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a member of the Muslim clergy
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Iraq
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a republic in the Middle East in western Asia
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Saddam Hussein
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Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran
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Kuwait
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an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf
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Persian Gulf
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a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula
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Osama bin Laden
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Arab terrorist who established al-Qaeda
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al-Qaeda
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the Base, which recuited Muslims to drive Westerners out of nations with a largely Muslim population
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Naguib Mahfouz
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Egyptian author of Cairo Trilogy
