Date: 10/16/14Activity: Africa Warm Up: Why did so

many African nations fall into civil war soon after they gained independence?

===================Homework: *Suez Crisis Reading

and Notes due Monday 10/20

*Unit 2 Review Sheet due Tuesday 10/21

*Unit 2 Test Wednesday 10/22

Pg Assignment Date

38 Africa PowerPoint Notes 10/13

39 Kashmir Problems and Solutions 10/14

40 Unit 2 Review Sheet 10/14

41 Arab- Israeli PPT Notes 10/16

42 Suez Crisis Reading 10/16

43 Suez Crisis Notes 10/16

UNIT SECTION TABLE OF CONTENTS

Today’s Warm Up:

Why did so many African nations fall into civil war soon after gained their independence? -There was a lot of instability and corruption, violence an authoritarianism

MODERN AFRICA (1945-PRESENT)

THE END OF COLONIALISM IN AFRICA

• BY THE EARLY 1900s NATIONALISM (PRIDE & DEVOTION TO ONE’S COUNTRY) WAS EVIDENT IN AFRICA.

• NATIONALISM GREW OUT OF A DESIRE TO END EUROPEAN RULE.

AFRICA: POST WW II

• AS WW II ENDED, INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS GAINED STRENGTH IN AFRICA.

• THE WAR WEAKENED COLONIAL POWERS SUCH AS ENGLAND & FRANCE.

• THE USSR CONDEMNED IMPERIALISM & AIDED SOME NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS.

• THE U.S. SPOKE OUT AGAINST COLONIALISM.

NEW NATIONS EMERGE• SLOWLY EUROPEAN

NATIONS REALIZED THEY MUST GIVE UP THEIR COLONIAL EMPIRES.

• IN 1950 AFRICA HAD ONLY 4 INDEPENDENT NATIONS (LIBERIA, ETHIOPIA, EGYPT & SOUTH AFRICA).

• DURING THE 1950s & 60s, AFRICAN DEMANDS FOR FREEDOM LED TO THE BIRTH OF MANY NEW NATIONS.

COMMON PROBLEMS

• IN THE MODERN ERA, MUCH OF AFRICA HAS STRUGGLED WITH:– POVERTY– HEALTH ISSUES– OTHER QUALITY

OF LIFE ISSUES– WAR & GENOCIDE

POVERTY IN AFRICA • POVERTY IN AFRICA IS HIGHER THAN IN OTHER DEVELOPING REGIONS.

• MANY AFRICANS LACK THE INCOME NECESSARY TO SATISFY BASIC HUMAN NEEDS (FOOD, SHELTER, HEALTHCARE).

HEALTH ISSUES• AFRICA HAS THE WORLD’S

HIGHEST INFANT MORTALITY RATE…

• LACK OF BASIC HEALTHCARE

• THE AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) EPIDEMIC HAS BEEN RAVISHING AFRICA SINCE THE DISEASE WAS IDENTIFIED IN 1980:– IN 2001 40 MILLION PEOPLE

WERE SICK WITH AIDS OR INFECTED WITH HIV, THE VIRUS THAT CAUSES AIDS.

AIDS IN AFRICA • 70% OF THE WORLD’S VICTIMS LIVE IN AFRICA.

• REASONS FOR HIGH AFRICAN AIDS RATES:– SOCIAL NORMS– POVERTY– LACK OF EDUCATION– POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE

• HIV/AIDS IS A THREAT TO PHYSICAL HEALTH AND ALSO TO ECONOMIC HEALTH, EXACERBATING AFRICA’S CHRONIC POVERTY.

• PBS/Frontline: The Age of Aids (13 min 29 sec)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s466q90&continuous=1

OTHER QUALITY OF LIFE CONCERNS

• POLITICAL CORRUPTION

• WORLD’S LOWEST LITERACY RATE

• LACK OF SAFE DRINKING WATER

• LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANCY RATES: – U.S.: 77– WORLD: 63– AFRICA: 52

CIVIL WAR AND GENOCIDE

• CIVIL WAR OCCURRED BECAUSE AFRICAN STATES HAVE FREQUENTLY BEEN HAMPTERED BY INSTABILITY, CORRUPTION, VIOLENCE AND AUTHORITARIANISM

• GENOCIDE IS THE DELIBERATE, SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, RELIGION OR ETHNICITY.