History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 24: Empires Into Nations: Africa an the Middle East After the Second World War

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

10. The African Revolution
• [Image Aids in Africa]
• [Image Aids patient]

11. French North Africa
• [Image Habib Bourguiba]

12. Algeria
• [Primary Source Proclamation of the National Liberation Front (FLN), 1954]
• [Image FLN soldiers]
• [Image Assassination during French-Algerian War]
• [Image Terror bombing]

13. End of British Rule in West Africa
• [Primary Source Kwame Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom, 1961]
• [Primary Source All-African People's Conference, Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, 1958]
• [Image Jerry John Rawlings]

14. Nigeria

15. End of British Rule in East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• [Primary Source Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya Africa Union is Not the Mau Mau, 1952]
• [Image Jomo Kenyatta]
• [Image Daniel arap Moi]
• [Image Julius Nyerere http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/people/images/nyerere.jpg]
• [Image Milton Obote]
• [Image Idi Amin]
• [Primary Source Eriya Kategaya, Statement on AIDS in Uganda, 2001

16. Southern Africa
• [Image Robert Mugabe]

17. The Union of South Africa
• [Image Nationalist party cabinet, 1948]
• [Primary Source The National Party's Colour Policy, 1948]
• [Primary Source The Case for Apartheid, 1953]
• [Primary Source UN Resolution on Race Conflict in South Africa, 1961]
• [Image Nelson Mandela]
• [Primary Source Nelson Mandela, Speech on Release from Prison, 1990]
• [Primary Source Strategy and Tactics of the ANC, 1969]
• [Image F.W. de Klerk]
• [Image Thabo Mbeki]

17. The French Sub-Saharan Empire
• The Belgian Congo: From Mobutu's Zaire to the Democratic Republic of Congo
• [Image Patrice Lumumba]
• [Image Joseph Desire Mobutu]
• [Primary Source U Thant, The Congo Problem, 1962]
• [Image Laurent Kabila]

19. End of the Portuguese Colonial Empire
• [Image Army overthrew Portuguese dictatorship in 1971]

20. Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan
• [Image Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie]

21. Liberia and Sierra Leone: Civil War

22. The African Revolution
• [Image Leopold Senghor]
• [Image Wole Soyinka]
• [Image Chinua Achebe
• [Image African refugees]
• [Primary Source Charter of the Organization of African Unity, 1963]
• [Image Organization of African Unity]

CXVI. Ferment in the Middle East

1. The Islamic and the Arab World
• [Image Oil drilling rig in Saudi Arabia]
• [Primary Source Pact of the League of Arab States, 1945]
• [Image League of Arab States]
• [Image Colonel Gamal Abdel-Nasser]

2. The Emergence of Israel
• [Primary Source Balfour Declaration, 1917]
• [Primary Source League of Nations mandate for Palestine]
• [Image Facilitating Jewish migration to Palestine]
• [Image Jewish refugees arriving in Israel, 1948]
• [Primary Source Declaration of Israel's Independence 1948]
• [Image Israel Declares Independence]
• [Primary Source Arab League declaration on the invasion of Palestine, 1948]
• [Map Conflict of 1948]
• [Image Bombardment of Jerusalem by Arab Legion]
• [Image Palestinian refugees]

3. The New State of Israel
• [Primary Source Law of Return, 1950]
• [Image David Ben-Gurion and First Israeli government, 1949]
• [Primary Source David Ben-Gurion, Broadcast After The Arab Invasion, 1948]
• [Image Knesset building]

4. The Arab-Israeli Wars after Independence
• [Map Arab-Israeli War, 1956]
• [Image Six-Day War, 1967: Egyptian planes destroyed by Israelis]
• [Map Golan Heights]
• [Image Yom Kippur War, 1973]
• [Map War in Sinai, 1973]
• [Primary Source Eisenhower Doctrine]
• [Image Yasir Arafat]
• [Image Menachem Begin]
• [Image Anwar al-Sadat]
• [Image President Hosny Mubarak]
• [Image King Hussein]

5. Israel, the Occupied Territories, and Peace Negotiations
• [Primary Source The Palestinian National Charter, 1968]
• [Primary Source Oslo Declaration]
• [Images Second intifada 2000]

6. Libya and Syria
• [Image Colonel Muhammad al-Quaddafi]
• [Image Hafez al-Assad]

7. The Revolution in Iran
• [Image Shah of Iran]
• [Image Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returning from exile, 1979]
• [Primary Source Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Uprising of Khurdad 15, 1979]
• [Image Seizure of American Embassy in Tehran, 1979]

8. The War between Iran and Iraq
• [Image Saddam Hussein]
• [Image Iran-Iraq War]
• [Image Muhammed Khatami]

9. Iraq and the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991
• [Image Operation Desert Storm]

10. Changes in the Middle East
• [Image Afghanistan fell to Taliban movement, 1996]

CXVIII.The Developing World

1. The Development Experience
• [Primary Source Norman Borlaug on the Green Revolution ]

2. Changing Worlds and Persistent Problems

3. Reappraising Development