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| Negritude Movement | a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values. |
| Kwame Nkrumah | (1909-1972) Ghanaian statesman. He was a first prime minister and president of Ghana, and a strong supporter of pan-Africanism. |
| Jomo Kenyatta | (1897-1978) Kenyan statesman. He was imprisoned during Kenya's colonial period, and became its 1st prime minister and president after its independence. |
| Mau Mau | a secret Kenyan organization set up in 1952 with the aim of forcing European settlers from the land and ending British rule in Kenya. |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | (1930-1997) Zairian soldier and statesman. He served as a president of Zaire form 1965 to 1997. |
| FLN (the National Liberation Front) | an Algerian group that waged a guerrilla struggle for independence from France. |
| Ahmed Ben Bella | an Algerian political leader. He was the country's first prime minister and a president. |
| Balfour Declaration | a statement that the British government supported the establishment of Jewish national homeland in Palestine, made in a 1917 letter by British foreign secretary Sir Arhtur Balfour. |
| Suez Crisis | an international crisis that occured after Egypt seized control of Suez Canal in 1956, when Israel, took the canal by force but withdrew under pressure from the U. S. and U.S.S.R. |
| Six-Day War | a brief 1967 conflict between Israel and several Arab states, during which Israel took control of Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. |
| PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) | an organization dedicated to the establishment of an independent state for Palestinians in the Middle East. |
| Anwar Sadat | (1918-1981) Egyptian statesman. As president of Egypt, he was the 1st Arab leader to recognize Israel. |
| Golda Meir | (1998-1978) Russian-born Israeli stateswoman, who served as a prime minster of Israel (1969-1972). |
| Menachem Begin | (1913-1992) Russian-born Israeli statesman, who served as a prime minister of Israel and signed the first -ever Israeli treaty with an Arab state (1979). |
| Camp David Accords | the first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country that ended 30 years of hostilities between Egypt and Israel. |
| Hosni Mubarak | (1928-) Egyptian statesman who as a president of Egypt continued Sadat's foreign policy of peace with Israel. |
