Economics - HW#31       GH4 - HW#26                                               5-2-05

Read pages 400-409

1. How do economists measure the nation's economic performance?

 

2.  What are the limitations of the GDP?

 

3.  Explain Keynes's contributions to economic thought?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Africa and Independence into the Sixties
A Gazetteer Of  African Independence

Read pages 776-781
Answer questions (1-6) on 781

1. Identify: Pan-Africanist, African National Congress, Mau Mau.

2. What effect did the Second World War have on the African struggle on independence?

3. What choice did France initially give its African colonies? What did the colonies decide?

4. Why was the Belgian Congo unprepared for independence?

5. What were the main events in Kenya's struggle for independence?

6. Critical Thinking Why did the newly independent government of the Congo replace Western names with African ones?