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Data Based Question (Free Response Question – 35 minutes)
Consult the following documents. Provide an historical account of some of the great failures of the “First World” during the period from 1945 to 1972.
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(Document 1)  Civil War in Nigeria 1967 - 1970
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"Come you masters of war / You that build all the guns / You that build the death planes / You that build all the bombs / You that hide behind walls / You that hide behind desks / I just want you to know / I can see through your masks.” Bob Dylan
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"Before closing my eyes to Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngo Dinh Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce a policy of religious equality."
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“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

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The Shah of Iran with his wife Farah Diba
“After removing the populist regime of Mohammad Mosaddeq (which was originally entrusted with nationalizing Iran's oil industry) from power on 19 August 1953 by means of a coup, the monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, established an intelligence service with police powers. His goal was to repress dissident movements by placing political opponents under surveillance.”
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“Some had their passports taken away, while others were jailed for refusing to give the names of other communists. The trials, which were well publicized, could often destroy a career with a single unsubstantiated accusation.”



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Patrice Lumumba first President of the Congo (former Belgian Congo)
was taken prisoner by troops loyal to General Mobutu and was killed
by a firing squad, without a trial on January 17, 1961.

“The image he projected, by his use of vocabulary and his manner, frightened some people. He gave the impression that he was not a man who could be dominated. And a man who could not be dominated was dangerous.” Jean van Lierde

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Mobutu Sese Seko dictator of Zaire (former Belgian Congo, now Republic of Congo)
“CIA agents planned to assassinate the Congo’s Prime Minister, the Soviet-leaning Patrice Lumumba,  and US support for Joseph Mobutu was designed to frustrate Soviet ambitions in the region.”