Apartheid Prezi Notes
- After today you will be able to:
- Explain the meaning and purpose of______
- Analyze the affects that apartheid had on the lives of ______.
- Analyze why South Africa moved toward ______.
- Apartheid: “apartness”
- A legal system of rigid ______of ______.
- What was the purpose of Apartheid?
- The ______came to power in 1948.
- Descended from the original ______settlers.
- Had very strong views of ______.
- They set up Apartheid.
- Essentially, they were ______who believed in the idea of ______superiority.
- How were people separated?
- People were classified as:
- White
- Black
- ______(mixed race)
- ______
- No non-white could ______, and they were restricted they could ______and ______.
- Some black ethnic groups were even forced to live in ______- homelands to develop their own culture- that were usually dry and ______. Most of the resources remained in white lands.
- People still needed to ______. So the government allowed some blacks to live outside their ______.
- However, a person needed to carry a ______to travel between the different areas. Sometimes a husband could receive a passbook to travel into, or live in white areas, but his family would not be allowed.
- Struggle Against Apartheid:
- Many blacks and other South Africans were opposed ______to Apartheid.
- Many people preached ______resistance to apartheid; however, the South African government did use ______. Sometimes peaceful protests turned into violent massacres (Sharpeville Massacre).
- Apartheid opposition groups were ______, and their leaders went into ______. Nelson ______went into hiding, but was captured and sentenced to ______in prison in 1964.
- Women and students were also very active in ______apartheid protests:
- At one rally, ______women marched to demonstrate against ______laws.
- Students in Soweto protested laws requiring that ______- the language of white South Africans- be used in all public schools.
- People outside of South Africa also too up the anti-apartheid cause:
- The OAU (______of ______) urged people to ______South Africa.
- The UN placed an ______on South Africa.
- The Olympic Committee ______South African athletes from competition.
- Many nations imposed ______on South Africa.
- Steps Toward Change:
- People began recognizing the need for ______to end.
- By the mid to late 1980’s…
- Pass laws had been ______.
- Some facilities became available to ______.
- The ban on ______groups was lifted.
- ______and other protest leaders were freed.
- In the early 1990’s…
- A new ______is written granting all blacks basic rights.
- In ______black South Africans ______for the first time.
- Nelson Mandela is elected South Africa’s new ______.
- Mandela set to work trying to heal the nation of the “______of the ______”:
- Backed a government commission that was collecting data on ______committed under ______.
- Wanted to bring services such as ______, ______, and decent ______to the millions of black South Africans.
- Mandela faced many problems:
- The gap between the ______and the ______was one of the largest in the world.
- Ethnic and political tension sometimes led to ______.
- ______downturns hit the nation.
- Mandela retired in ______.