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Topic 33: Twentieth-Century Africa: From Colonies to Countries

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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The former colony of Rhodesia is now .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. With the overthrow of Egypt’s king Faruq in 1952, became the new leader of the country.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1945 there were only independent African nations.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. No military leader was more radical with regard to social and economic reform than Egypt’s , who came to power in 1952.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The movement evolved from a secret organization established by officers in the Egyptian army in the 1930s.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In July of 1952, an almost bloodless military coup toppled the corrupt Khedive from the Egyptian throne.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Racial separation was organized on a grander scale in South Africa by the creation of numerous , each designated for the main ethno-linguistic groups within the black African population.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Black organizations like the were declared illegal and African leaders were shipped off to maximum-security prisons.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The freeing of in 1990 gave some hope that white South Africans may be willing to compromise on the question of civil rights for blacks.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A rigid system of racial segregation in South Africa, called by the Afrikaners, was established after 1948.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The first decolonization movement in Africa in the years after World War II was led by in the British Gold Coast colony.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The head of the leading nationalist party in Kenya was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Algerian struggle for independence was prolonged by a violent settler backlash, led after 1960 by the directed against Berbers and Arabs.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Not surprisingly, the continued subjugation of the black Africans became a central aim of the Boer political organizations that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s, culminating in the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The African continent’s most populous country, , turned to democracy in 1999.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1990, bloody conflicts broke out in central Africa, pitting tribal groups, the , against each other primarily in the nation of Rwanda.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Leopold Senghor wrote of the beauties of , or blackness seen as a source of racial pride.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Early African nationalism was influenced by the American .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The leader of independence in Guinea was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The black organization was founded in South Africa in 1912 to promote black rights.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The African National Congress leader became the first black president of South Africa.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In Kenya, organized the East African Native Association to protest wage reductions.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In the novel , Chinua Achebe tells of how traditional religion was undermined by Christian missionaries.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Tanzanian leader promoted rural socialism.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. As the leader of Zimbabwe, distributed some land but would not antagonize the white minority.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In the decades following the British conquest of Egypt, government policy was dominated by the strong-willed and imperious .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The cause of Egyptian independence was taken up mainly by the sons of the , the prosperous business and professional urban families.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The extent of the hostility felt by the Egyptian masses to British occupation was demonstrated by the incident of 1906.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The emergence of the party in Egypt after World War I provided nationalists with both unity and a mass base that far excelled any they had attracted in the prewar decades.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The literary movement nurtured by French-speaking west African exiles did much to combat the racial stereotyping that had so long held Africans in psychological bondage to Europeans.

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