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Who did remember turn for assistance?

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The soviet union

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What did the Soviet union provide Convo?

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Food military equipment and military advisers

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What was Lumumba’s main aim?

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Defeating his rivals - Tshombe, Kasavubu

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What resulted in the Congo crisis becoming an extension of the Cold War conflict?

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Acceptance of serviette assistance

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What did the US find Lumumba?

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Threatening and they wanted a leader who are not challenge their interests in the Congo

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Who interested the US?

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Joseph Mobutu

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When was Mobutu the temporary head of state?

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1960

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Which president was angered by Lumumba?

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President Dwight Eisenhower

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What did Eisenhower approve of the central intelligence agency?

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Assassinate him using poison place in his food or toothpaste

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Why was the assassination plan important?

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CIA’s inability to get close enough to the member

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Why did the Belgian army continue their presents when the Europeans flared?

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To watch over their evacuation

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12
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What happened to Katanga during this time?

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Declared its independence

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13
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What state was declared an autonomous state?

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Kasai within the Republic of Congo

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Who was the leader of Kasai?

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Albert Kalonji

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Who did kasai receive support from?

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Belgian mining company who wanted to operate in the area

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Why did send Lumumba Congolese army to Katanga and south kasai?

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To prevent their secession

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17
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What is the Congolese forces that intervened do you?

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Massacred civilians

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What did Lumumba also ask the UN to do?

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Keep the Congo as a single unified country

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What was the United Nations under the leadership of?

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Secretary general Da Hammarskjöld

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What was the united nations not prepared to do you?

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To use force to keep the Congo unified

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Lumumba wanted a path of “positive neutralism”. What does this mean?

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No ideology important from the waist in blOC or the eastern bloc

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22
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What with the UN not supply?

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Military support

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23
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Then who did Lumumba ask for help?

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The USSR

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What did the Soviet send?

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Trucks, planes and military advises

25
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What did the Soviet help the Congolese government do you?

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In its efforts to bring south kasai back into its control

26
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Why was the member Dennis missed as a prime minister?

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Kasavubu was angry that you asked for Soviet intervention

27
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Why was the USA and Belgium upset at the Soviet intervention?

A

Did not one Congo part of Soviet sphere of influence

28
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Why did the USA in thousand give the Congo money?

A

Allowed my Bluetooth to pay his soldiers privately and give him a lot of power

29
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Who was Mobutu?

A

Anti-Communist chief of staff of the Congolese army

30
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What did Mobutu do in arrest?

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Arrested Lumumba and told Soviets to leave Congo

31
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Where did Lumumba flee to?

A

Stanleyville

32
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Who tried to establish a separate government with Soviet support?

A

Antoine Gizenga

33
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When was Lumumba captured?

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December 1960b

34
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Who was Lumumba captured by?

A

Mobutu’s forces

35
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How did the Soviet union try to help the member?

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Called for you in intervention – UN refused

36
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Where was Lumumba sent?

A

Katanga

37
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When was Lumumba assassinated?

A

17 January 1961

38
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How many people supported Gizenga?

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21 countries

39
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Who replaced Dag HammarSkjold?

A

U Thant

40
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What did the UN become more actively involved in?

A

Stopping secessionist attacks on UN peacekeepers

41
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How did this involvement help Congo?

A

Mobutu to unify Congo

42
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When did the Simba Rebellion break out?

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1964

43
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What did the Simba Rebellion suppress?

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Using Western aid and hired mercenaries

44
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Who overthrew who in 1965?

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Mobutu overthrew Kasavubu

45
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How did Mobutu overthrow?

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Bloodless coup

46
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How did Mobutu control Congo?

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Aid of Western powers

47
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What did Mobutu rename Congo?

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Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

48
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What party was only allowed during the DRC?

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Mouvement Populaire de la Revolution (MPR)

49
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How long did Mobutu rule for?

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32 years

50
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How did the government try encourage industry?

A

Import duties on factory equipment low

51
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Why did the USA continue to support Mobutu?

A

He was anti-Communist

52
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How much financial aid did Mobutu receive?

A

Half of all the Eden Centre Africa

53
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What how to Congo is finances?

A

In 1966 Congo nationalise the huge Belgian mining company

54
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What was the Belgian mining company called?

A

Union Mindere du Haut Katanga (UMHK)

55
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What was the Belgian mining companies new name?

A

La Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (GECAMINES)

56
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What did the government do in terms of finance in 1967?

A

Implement new currency - zaire

57
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What did zaire replace?

A

Congolese franc

58
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What was Zaire based on?

A

Congo river

59
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How many US dollars was received in 1967?

A

27 million - loan from IMD

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