Fall 2020 - Final Review - LA 102D

Which of the following is not an element that contributed to political and social instability in Africa in 1960s-80s?

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about World War II?

Patrice Lumumba was removed from power in 1960 by a military coup led by Joseph Mobutu (Mobutu Sese Seko)

The MPLA-run, socialist government in Angola was supported by which foreign power during the Angolan Civil War?

The United States, Soviet Union, and China all saw Africa as a Cold War battleground.

How many African nations gained independence in Africa between 1957 and 1968?

The U.S. government knew about Op. Condor and continued to offer intel, monetary, & tech support to military regimes

Which is NOT true about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994?

Cuban forces protected US oil operations in Angola against attacks by US-backed rebels.

The CIA deposed Fidel Castro from power in Cuba with the successful Bay of Pigs invasion.

After Angola gained independence in 1975, who claimed to govern the country from the capital of Luanda?

The United States Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated a coup in Guatemala in 1954.

During the Angola Civil War, UNITA rebels received assistance from all of the foreign powers listed EXCEPT

The main parties involved in Angola's 13 year-long War for Independence were Portugal, FNLA, MPLA, and UNITA

Approximately 140,000 troops representing 9 African countries fought in the Congo during the African World War.

Which was a Cold War foreign policy option used by the U.S. government to contain socialism in Latin America?

Operation Condor operated across international borders in the Western Hemispheres, including operations in the USA.

Belgium granted independence to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on June 30, 1960

Which of the following is true about women in world history?

Mobutu ruled over the Congo as a dictator for 32 years until the African World War.

A secret intelligence & operations systems that captured, tortured, & executed political opponents in Latin American

President Eisenhower opposed U.S. covert actions and political assassinations in Africa and Latin America.

The Popular Front in Latin America witnessed cooperation between communist and capitalist during WWII.

One of the first genocides committed since the Holocaust occurred in this war-torn country in the 1990s

Which is NOT true about the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944?

Many western nations (including the U.S. and Belgium) opposed Patrice Lumumba because

In 1920s America,

Mobutu, Katanga authorities, Belgians, and the U.S. government were all complicit in the assassination of Lumumba.

Cold War rivalries manifested in the Angola Civil War because foreign powers wanted access to Angolan natural resources.

During Op. Condor, military regimes in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador & Peru targeted

Belgian colonialism amplified ethnic division and tensions between the minority Tutsi & majority Hutu in Rwanda.

Systematic racism across American institutions & society is a lasting legacy of the Transatlantic slave trade & slavery.

U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon supported covert operations against left-wing governments in Latin America .

The Rwanda Genocide was the final phase of the African World War.

Operation Condor occurred in