Date: 10/16/14 Activity: 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 PgAssignmentDate 38Africa PowerPoint Notes10/13 39 Kashmir Problems and Solutions 10/14 40Unit 2 Review Sheet10/14 41Arab- Israeli PPT Notes10/16 42Suez Crisis Reading10/16 43Suez Crisis Notes10/16 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 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)

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.