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

Name two of the Arab nations that actively opposed the state of

Israel.

Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iran

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)

How does Israel expand the conflict in the mid

1980’s?

by attacking PLO bases in Lebanon

What step toward peace did the PLO take in 1988?

recognizing that Israel had the right to exist

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 group was organized to fight against

this system?

ANC (African National Congress)

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

How many more nations will declare the independence in

the 5 years after Ghana does?

more than 15

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

What 1823 U.S. policy guaranteed greater

American involvement in Latin America?

the Monroe Doctrine

What is a Banana Republic?

a government run for the benefit of a/the large agricultural industry

Who did the U.S. support in Nicaragua in the early

1980’s? Why?

the contras, they were fighting the communist

Sandinistas

Who was the brutal, drug dealing, dictator that

ruled Panama with U.S. support?

Manuel Noriega

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

What ecological damage did the “economic

miracle” of Brazil bring with it?

major harvesting of the Amazon Rainforests