1. Indian nationalism in the 1800s began as a reaction to what?
British rule
2. What was one of Ghandi’s main strategies in dealing with the British?
non-violence
3. Who led the Chinese communist during most of the 20th century?
Mao Zedong
4. What was the 6,000 mile march communist went on to avoid being
captured by the nationalist government?
The Long March
5. What was China renamed when the communist took over on October 1,
1945?
The People’s Republic of China
6. Why was the Great Leap Forward unsuccessful?
Chinese farmers did not know how to plant crops on large plots of land
leading to an enormous famine.
7. What was the period of time called when Mao tried to eliminate anyone
that criticized the government?
The Cultural Revolution
8. What happened to students in 1989 that were protesting for greater
political freedom in Tiananmen Square?
They were attacked by Chinese troops and many were killed or arrested.
9. Who took control of Vietnam in 1858?
The French
10. What was the Domino Theory?
If one country in a region became communist, others would quickly
follow.
11. What were the objections the US had to Ho Chi Minh’s leadership on
Vietnam?
He was a communist and a threat to the US interests.
12. What became of the US efforts to prevent Ho Chi Minh from taking
over the country of Vietnam and reuniting it as one country?
American efforts ended in 1975 and Vietnam was united under the
government designed by Ho Chi Minh.
13. People often referred to Ghandi as “Mahatma”. What does the word
“Mahatma” mean?
Great Soul
14. The US dropped nuclear bombs on what two cities in Japan?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
15. What role did the US play in rebuilding Japan after WWII?
developed a plan to help Japan’s economy recover
16. Why did the US believe it was necessary to become involved in both
Korea and Vietnam?
stop the spread of communism
17. What is the theme that ties The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural
Revolution, and Tiananmen Square Massacre together?
Mao Zedong led each of them
18. What was the major result of the Korean War?
Korea was split into Communist North Korea and Democratic South
Korea.
19. What communist country fought against the US for control of Korea
during the Korean War?
20. What happened to Korea after WWII?
split at the 38th parallel
21. What is the name of the trail that the North Vietnamese troops used
to travel from North Vietnam to South Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh Trail
22. At the end of WWI, who drew up the boundaries of the new countries
created from the Ottoman Empire?
23. Who was responsible for the 9-11 attacks?
Osama bin-Laden
24. What world organization created the new state of Israel in 1948 as a
homeland for the Jews? How did the Arabs in Palestine feel about
this?
United Nations (UN), they rejected it as unfair to them
25. Why did so many countries in the UN feel it was right to create Israel
in 1948?
Many felt the Jews deserved help due to their suffering during the
Holocaust
26. What was the outcome of the 1948 war between the new state of
Israel and the Arabs living in and around Palestine?
Israel won the war and the new State of Israel was even larger than
originally planned.
27. Why did Islamist resent the US presence in Southwest Asia?
The US was using Saudi Arabia as a bas for invading Kuwait.
28. Why did the US go to war against Iraq in 2003?
The US government thought the Iraqi leader, Sadam Hussein, was
developing weapons of mass destruction.
29. When war broke out in Palestine, what countries joined with the
Palestinian Arabs to try to stop the creation of the new state of Israel?
neighboring Arab countries
30. Why did the UN try to stop Iraq from taking over Kuwait in 1990?
The UN has to intervene whenever any member nation has a conflict
with another country.
31. What was the main goal of the Pan-African movement?
to get Africans to think of themselves as one people and work
together
32. What was the name of Nelson Mandela’s political party?
African National Congress
33. What did President F.W. de Klerk eventually decide about the
apartheid laws in South Africa?
He began to recommend that the laws be repealed.
34. Once he became president in 1994, what was Nelson Mandela’s
attitude toward the people who had been responsible for the old
government of South Africa?
He felt that the races needed to try to work together in t he new
government.
35. Who was the first black South African president?
Nelson Mandela
36. What conflict broke out in Nigeria after independence was declared?
religious dispute between the Muslims and Christians over land
37. After what major world event, did many African groups begin to
challenge European colonial war?
after WWI
38. Why did European nations originally set up colonies in Africa?
They wanted to bring laborers to Europe.
39. Which group of people saw European colonization as a way to spread
Christianity?
Missionaries
40. What meeting was held by US and European leaders in the 19th
century to discuss the division of Africa?
The Berlin conference of 1884
41. Why did many of the boundaries of the new African states created
after WWII cause problems?
The boundaries split tribes and kinship groups.
42. What was most often used to draw new boundaries for African
countries?
geographic features like rivers and mountain ranges
43. What two European countries fought for control of South Africa?
Dutch and British
44. Who started the African nationalist movement?
young educated Africans who attended universities in the US and Europe
45. What country did Jomo Kenyatta helped to achieve independence?
Kenya
46. What African country was the first to receive their independence from
European powers?
South Africa
47. What valuable natural resources made the British want to take over South
Africa?
diamonds and gold
48. What two African nations were independent during European
colonialism?
Liberia and Ethiopia
Define:
Apartheid: separateness
civil war: wars fought between opposing sides within a single nation
genocide: the systematic destruction of a race or cultural group
imperialism: the policy of obtaining and occupying land to form an empire
nationalism: loyalty and devotion to one’s country
holocaust: the preplanned murder of an entire national, racial, political, or
ethnic groups