DBQ #5 Analyze a political cartoon about this conflict.
Carefully examine the cartoon at left.
1. According to the political cartoon, what ethnic groups can you identify as players in the Sudanese conflict?
2. What objects in the cartoon suggest a conflict?
3. How does the artist portray the resource rivalry in this war?
1. According to the political cartoon, what ethnic groups can you identify as players in the Sudanese conflict?
2. What objects in the cartoon suggest a conflict?
3. How does the artist portray the resource rivalry in this war?
Sudan Conflict Photo Gallery
DBQ #6 Video
Watch the video clip about the conflict in Sudan.
Part 1 covers the ethnic drivers that create resource rivalry. Part 2 begins at 3:19, and introduces the OIL factor. Watch this section carefully and answer the following questions. 4. How has OIL become a driver of the conflict in Sudan? 5. Where is the oil located? 6. Who controls the pipeline in Sudan? 7. Where is the oil transferred onto ships? 8. What nation is the primary customer for Sudanese oil? 9. What does the Sudanese government purchase with the oil revenues? 10. Why have these actions impacted the people of the Darfur region? |
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DBQ # 7 US Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks out about the crisis in Sudan
Read the BBC News article from September 9, 2004.
11. How does US Secretary of State Colin Powell characterize the conflict in Sudan? (What does he call it?) 12. What evidence does he base this decision on? 13. What future actions do you predict will the US take to help the people of the Darfur region? |
DBQ #8 Presidential Executive Order 13412 on Sudan
Examine President G.W. Bush’s Executive Order 13412 of October 13, 2006 that places economic sanctions on Sudan. [Sanctions = trade controls]
14. According to the title, what do you predict is the main point of the President’s order?
15. Read and Examine the second paragraph, that begins with “I, GEORGE W. BUSH.” For what reason does the president take this action with Sudan?
16. Section 1 freezes all Sudanese property and money in the US. Read over Section 2.
What exactly does this section prohibit? (Be specific, and prove your response using evidence from the text.)
17. Based on what you know, how might this order change the conflict?
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