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Decolonization in Africa and the Cold War

Decolonization in Africa and the Cold War. The Suez Crisis of 1956 Ghana and Pan-Africanism The Rise & Fall of the Apartheid Regime in South Africa. Wedding Banquet for King Farouk (reigned 1936-1952) and Queen Farida, Alexandria, 1938.

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Decolonization in Africa and the Cold War

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  1. Decolonization in Africa and the Cold War The Suez Crisis of 1956 Ghana and Pan-Africanism The Rise & Fall of the Apartheid Regime in South Africa

  2. Wedding Banquet for King Farouk (reigned 1936-1952)and Queen Farida, Alexandria, 1938

  3. The pan-Arabist Egyptian Major Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970)suffered defeat in Gaza in 1948 but toppled the Egyptian monarchy in 1952 and nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956

  4. Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Molletreached a secret agreement with David ben-Gurionin October 1956 to bring Nasser down The French sought to cut off support for Algerian rebels

  5. EDEN WROTE EISENHOWER on September 6, 1956, to compare Nasser with Hitler and Stalin “The seizure of the Suez Canal is, we are convinced, the opening gambit in a planned campaign designed by Nasser to expel all Western influence and interests from Arab countries. He believes that if he can get away with this his prestige in Arabia will be so great that he will be able to mount revolutions of young officers in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. (We know that he is already preparing a revolution in Iraq.) These new Governments will in effect be Egyptian satellites if not Russian ones. They will have to place their united oil resources under the control of a United Arabia led by Egypt and under Russian influence.”

  6. EISENHOWER replied on September 8 to urge a “slower and less dramatic process then military force.” “I think all Arabs would be forced to support Nasser [if Great Britain attacked], even though some of the ruling monarchs might very much like to see him toppled…. There are economic pressures which, if continued, will cause distress in Egypt. There are Arab rivalries... which can be exploited if we do not make Nasser an Arab hero. There are alternatives to the present dependence upon the Suez Canal. Nasser thrives on drama. If we let some of the drama go out of the situation and concentrate on the task of deflating him through slower but sure processes such as I described, I believe the desired results can more probably be obtained.”

  7. In November 1956 France and Britain used the excuse of Israel’s invasion of the Sinai to demand the right to reoccupy the Suez Canal

  8. The British amphibious assault on Port Said, November 1956

  9. After the bombing of Port Said, the Soviet ambassador to the UN said the same fate could befall Paris and London. Eisenhower’s comment: “I have just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things.”

  10. Canadian UNEF soldiers patrol the Israeli-Egyptian border, 1962

  11. DECOLONIZATION IN AFRICA:THE SETTLER VARIABLE…. The ratio between European settlers and indigenous peoples was the most important variable governing the outcome of decolonization…. • Ghana, 1:10,000. Independent in 1956 following nonviolent struggle led by Joshua Nkrumah. • Kenya, 1:100. The British defeat Mau Mau insurgency, then grant independence to Jomo Kenyatta in 1963. • Algeria, 1:8. Independent in 1962 after 7 years of horrific bloodshed (analyzed by Frantz Fanon). • South Africa, 1:4. Afrikaners establish apartheid regime until 1994, when Nelson Mandela is elected President.

  12. The Partition of Africa, 1878-1914: The process was driven forward by politicians who promised economic benefits for Europe that rarely materialized….

  13. Vegetation Zones of Africa:Only the Mediterranean coast, East African highlands, and South African grasslands ever attracted European settlers.

  14. Map of Ghana and its ten regions:Over 250 languages and dialects are spoken, but only nine have official status

  15. Elmina Castle, Accra, built by the Portuguese in 1483,the oldest center of the transatlantic slave trade

  16. The King of Ashanti presides over the Yam Festival, 1817

  17. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972):Educated at Lincoln University (PA) and the London School of Economics; returned to the Gold Coast in 1947; pictured here as Prime Minister in 1953: A “nondenominational Christian and Marxist socialist”

  18. Nkrumah waves to the crowd in Accra on Independence Day, March 6, 1957(where Vice President Nixon met Martin Luther King)

  19. Nkrumah and his wife dance with traditional chiefs,January 1963: He preached pan-Africanism, but even within Ghana, regionalism remained dominant

  20. Africa as of 1964, decolonized except for Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, and Rhodesia

  21. Southern Africa in 1885

  22. General Robert leads 43,000 British troopsacross the Zand River, 10 May 1900: The British crushed Afrikaner resistance in the Boer War but appealed by 1910 for their collaboration in the Union of South Africa

  23. Jan Smuts (1870-1950), liberal Afrikaner Prime Minister of South Africa, 1919-1924, 1939-1948

  24. Daniel Malan, architect of apartheid,Prime Minister of South Africa,1948—1954

  25. Map of the “homelands” created by the apartheid regime

  26. Langa Township, outside Capetown, founded in 1927, and Soweto, outside Johannesburg, which became the largest and poorest

  27. RACIAL INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA,ca. 1978

  28. “The Congress of the People,” Johannesburg, 1955

  29. Nelson Mandela burns his pass,1959

  30. The Sharpeville Massacre,21 March 1960:72 killed,178 wounded

  31. The prison at Robben Island, whereNelson Mandela sat from 1964 to 1990

  32. Soweto high school students demonstrate in 1976against the introduction of Afrikans as a required subject

  33. Pik Botha, Henry Kissinger, and Magnus Malan in Pretoria, 1970s

  34. THE CHANGING RACIAL BALANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA F.W. de Klerk, who became President in 1989, concluded that majority rule was inevitable

  35. Mass rally in Johannesburg, shortly before the release of Mandela in 1990

  36. Poster for ANC march for democracy, March 1991

  37. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the “Inkatha Freedom Party,” marches with Zulu warriors

  38. Terrified residents arm themselves against Inkatha Zulu militants in Kagiso, West Rand, in the early 1990s

  39. A member of the “Afrikaner Resistance Movement” attacks a black demonstrator, 1992 The ARM failed in March 1994 to prevent majority rule in Bophuthatswana

  40. THE RESULTS OF MULTI-RACIAL ELECTIONS Still in 2004, the DA posed a challenge to the ANC in the West Cape, and Inkatha, in KwaZulu-Natal

  41. The newly elected President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, speaks from the balcony of Town Hall in Pretoria, 10 May 1994

  42. TRENDS IN PER CAPITA GDP SINCE 1900:THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR WIDENS

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