AP World History
RHS
Mrs. Osborn
Name___________________________________________ Per____ Date_________________________
PERIOD 6 (1900-Present)
Ch. 32: “Striving for Independence: Africa, India, Latin America, 1900-1949”
(TEXT, Bulliet 2nd edition, pp. 805-825)
DIRECTIONS:
HONOR STATEMENT: On my honor, I understand that this is an individual assignment and is
to be completed entirely by myself. (Copying or ‘splitting’ the assignment with other students
will not prepare me for tests/essays in this course.)
A) Write answers on your OWN paper. Do the work on your own. You need to read.
B) Using 3x5 index cards, create study flash cards (term on one side, definition on the other
side w/chapter pg#) of the following key terms: Blaise Diagne, African National Congress,
Haile Selassie, Indian National Congress, Bengal, All-India Muslim League, Mohandas K.
(Mahatma) Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco
“Panco” Villa, Lázaro Cárdenas, Getulio Vargas, import-substitution industrialization, Juan
Perón, Eva Duarte Perón.
C) Using complete sentences, answer the following questions. Page numbers provided.
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What impact did Europeans have on health care in Africa? p.807
Why did the Christian mission schools prove attractive to many Africans? p.808-809
What kind of people founded the African National Congress in 1909? p.809
How many Africans served in WWII and what kind of ideas did they bring with them back to
Africa? p.809
5. What caused 2 million people to die of starvation from 1896 to 1900 in India? p.810
6. What language became the common medium of communication of the Western-educated
middle class in India? p.810
7. The members of the Indian Civil Service have been called some of the most honest. How did
they view themselves and their role in India? p.810-811
8. Who founded the Indian National Congress in 1885? p.812
9. When and why was the All-India Muslim League founded? P. 813
10. What effect did Jamshedpur, the steel mill, have on the Indian people? p.813
11. How many Indians volunteered to fight for the British in WWI? What did Indians expect in
return? p.813
12. Mohandas Gandhi is better known to his followers as Mahatma. What does “Mahatma”
mean? p.813
13. What social class did Gandhi appeal to most? p.813-814
14. How did Gandhi protest British violence and policies? p.814
15. As India prepared for independence after WWII, what was the most serious problem facing
India? p.816
16. How many people died in the Hindu-Muslim violence that marred independence? p.817
17. How were most Latin American societies split? p.817
18. Who owned 85% of the land in Mexico prior to revolution? p.817
19. What was Porfirio Diaz’s motto and what did he mean by this? p.808
20. Since the Mexican Revolution was not led by one party with a well-defined ideology, how
did it develop? p.818
21. What did Emiliano Zapata do with the land he seized? p.819
22. List 3 reasons why the Constitutionalists were able to win control of Mexico and defeat
Zapata and Villa. p.819
23. What 3 post-revolutionary Mexican artists focused on social and political themes? p.820
24. What was the National Revolutionary Party (PNR)? p.820
25. What was the oligarquia in Argentina? p.821
26. Who controlled all radio communications in Latin America? p.822
27. Why did Brazil and Argentina veer toward authoritarian regimes during the Great
Depression? p.822-823
28. How did the industrialization of Brazil under Vargas affect the environment? p.823
29. What helped Juan Peron get elected as president in Argentina in 1946? p.823-824
D) Free Response Focus Questions: Answer EACH of these questions in a 4-6 sentence
paragraph.
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In your own words!!! Do not simply copy from the book and memorize the response. Know it.
You must support your response with plenty of facts!
Understand where events fall historically (global context, cause/effect, etc)
30. Describe the period of “classical colonialism” in Africa before WWII. What changes did
European rule bring to Africa?
31. Discuss the factors that led to the growth of movements for African independence.
32. Describe both Mohandas Gandhi’s role in the Indian independence movement and the
direction of that movement after WWI.
33. What are the circumstances prior to 1911 that triggered the Mexican Revolution?
34. Describe and discuss the world economy (and the World Wars) as it affected the internal
political situation in Brazil and Argentina.
E) FLIPPED VIDEOS: Watch the following short videos for this chapter:
- WHCC Decolonization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_sGTspaF4Y
F) PERIOD SIX ART IMAGES (1900-Present) Related to Chapter 32.
Tierra y Libertad; mural by Diego Rivera, Mexico, 1935.