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State the impact of colonizers on new nations.
Europeans hastily colonized Africa and established boundaries without reference to ethnic groups or cultural homogeneity.
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Which region currently has the highest rate of population growth?
Africa
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One of the chief by-products of population growth in the Third World nations has been...
mass migration to cities.
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State something accruate about Third World urbanization.
Third World cities lacked the rapidly expanding industrial sectors that make absorption of migrants possible.
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Who were the women that were head of state of an independent Third World nation?
- -Indira Gandhi
- -Benazir Bhutto
- -Corazon Aquino
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The continued relegation of the Third World to economic dependency after decolonization is sometimes referred to as the...
"neocolonialism."
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The ruler associated with the establishment of charismatic populism in Ghana was
Kwame Nkrumah.
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One of the most common elements of African and Asian governments since decolonization is
military takeovers
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Which nation experienced a military takeover of its government?
Uganda
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The military in Third World nations...
were more resistant to division by religious and ethnic rivalries.
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What movement did Hasan al-Banna found in 1928 in Egypt?
the Muslim Brotherhood
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Gamal Abdul Nasser
participated in the Free Officer movement that toppled the Khedive Farouk in 1952.
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Nasser's greatest foreign policy coup was the
expulsion of the British from the Suez Canal Zone in 1956.
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How was India similar to Egypt following decolonization?
emphasis on socialism and state intervention in the economy
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What was typical of post-independence India?
one-party control of the national government.
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Compare the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the nineteenth-century Mahdist revolt in the Sudan.
- -Both the Mahdi and Khomeini claimed to be divinely inspired.
- -Both placed emphasis on religious purification.
- -Each sought to establish states on Islamic precepts.
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From 1948 South African politics was dominated by
The Nationalist Party
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Backed by the Indians, the East Pakistanis won a war of secession that led to the establishment of the independent nation of __________ in 1972.
Bangladesh
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Third World leaders have been quite ready to blame the legacy of colonialism and what they have termed the "__________" structure of the global economy for failure of their development schemes.
neocolonial
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Loans from international lending agencies have almost invariably been granted only after needy nations agree to what are called "__________."
conditionalities
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No military leader was more radical with regard to social and economic reform than Egypt's __________, who came to power in 1952.
Gamal Abdul Nasser
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The revolutionary organization, the __________, led by Hasan al-Banna was committed to a fundamentalist approach to Islam and sweeping social reform.
Muslim Brotherhood
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The __________ movement evolved from a secret organization established by officers in the Egyptian army in the 1930s.
Free Officers
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In July of 1952, an almost bloodless military coup toppled the corrupt khedive __________ from the Egyptian throne.
Farouk
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Nasser's greatest foreign policy coup came in 1956, when he rallied international opinion to oust the British from the __________ Zone.
Suez Canal
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Even the __________ Dam project, which was the cornerstone of Nasser's development drive, was something of a disaster.
Aswan
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Nasser's successor, __________ had little choice but to dismantle the massive state apparatus that had been created.
Anwar Sadat
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During the first decades of its freedom, India had the good fortune to be governed by __________ and his allies in the Congress Party.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Improved seed strains, fertilizers, and irrigation are at the heart of the __________ Revolution.
Green
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In many respects, the Iranian revolution of 1979 under __________ represents a throwback to the religious fervor of anticolonial movements such as the Mahdist revolt in Sudan.
Ayatollah Khomeini
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Racial separation was organized on a grander scale in South Africa by the creation of numerous __________, each designated for the main ethnolinguistic groups within the black African population.
homelands
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Black organizations like the __________ were declared illegal, and African leaders were shipped off to maximum-security prisons.
African National Congress
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The freeing of __________ in 1990 gives some hope that white South Africans may be willing to compromise on the question of civil rights for blacks.
Nelson Mandela
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