Unit 21: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Africa & the Middle East
Topic 21.14: Africa, international organizations and the international community (20th century) Questions
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Choose the correct answer. Which UN Secretary-General died in a plane crash in September 1961 while attempting to negotiate a settlement in the Congo Crisis?
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Choose the correct answer. Which rebel movement in Angola was backed by the United States and apartheid South Africa after Portugal's withdrawal in 1975?
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Choose the year in which the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was founded.
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Choose the leader who championed full political union under Pan-Africanism at the OAU's founding, in contrast to those who preferred looser cooperation.
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Choose the event that Mussolini used as a pretext to justify the invasion of Abyssinia.
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Choose the correct answer. Which disease did the World Health Organization declare eradicated worldwide after a programme running from 1967 to 1980, with the last natural case recorded in Somalia in 1977?
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Choose the correct answer. In which year did the Battle of Mogadishu, which led to the withdrawal of US forces from Somalia, take place?
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Choose the conflict that the OAU failed to prevent or resolve due to its lack of a peacekeeping force and its non-interference principle.
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Choose the resource that was NOT included in the League of Nations' sanctions against Italy during the Abyssinian Crisis.
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Choose the correct answer. Approximately how many combatants did ONUMOZ disarm in Mozambique between 1992 and 1994?
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To what extent was the Abyssinian Crisis (1934–1936) the most significant cause of the League of Nations' collapse as an effective peacekeeping body?
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Examine the reasons for the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963.
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Discuss the impact of the OAU's principle of non-interference on its ability to resolve conflicts among its member states.
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Examine the reasons for the failure of United Nations peacekeeping in the Congo (1960–1964) and Rwanda (1994).
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Evaluate the claim that international organizations have consistently failed to protect African states throughout the 20th century.
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To what extent did the Cairo Declaration of 1964 achieve its aim of preventing conflict between African states?
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Compare and contrast the United Nations' peacekeeping missions in Congo (1960–1964) and Mozambique (1992–1994).
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Analyse the reasons why the mandate given to a UN peacekeeping force affected its chances of success in Africa.
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Discuss the causes and consequences of the death of Patrice Lumumba in January 1961.
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Examine the reasons for the successes of UNICEF and the WHO in Africa in the second half of the twentieth century.
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