Summer 2020 Global II Important People Quiz

The purpose of Mohandas Gandhi's actions such as the Salt March and the textile boycott was to

• begin a cycle of armed revolution

• draw attention to critical issues

• increase the strength of the military

• resist the power of religious leaders

In the 1940s, the leadership of the Indian National Congress and the leadership of the Muslim League supported the goal of

• helping the British fight World War II

• removing British control from the

  subcontinent

• abolishing caste distinctions and

  discrimination

• establishing a unified government based

  on religious teachings

Base your answer to the following question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

...Indeed whilst on the one hand civil disobedience authorizes disobedience of unjust laws or unmoral laws of a state which one seeks to overthrow, it requires meek and willing submission to the penalty of disobedience and therefore cheerful acceptance of the jail discipline and its attendant hardships....

Which individual is the author of this passage?

• Otto von Bismarck

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Ho Chi Minh

• Fidel Castro

One reason India gained its independence from Great Britain in 1947 was that

• Great Britain was defeated in World War II

• the Treaty of Versailles required Great

  Britain to give up its colonies

• Great Britain did not have the resources

  to maintain an empire after World War II

• India had supported the Axis Powers

  during World War II

"Don't pay your taxes or send your children to an English-supported school . . . Make your own cotton cloth by spinning the thread at home, and don't buy English-made goods. Provide yourselves with homemade salt, and do not buy government-made salt."

— Mohandas Gandhi

In this statement, Gandhi was expressing his commitment to

• armed rebellion

• civil disobedience

• criminal acts

• guerrilla tactics

What was one similar goal shared by Simon Bolivar and Mohandas Gandhi?

• ending foreign control

• promoting religious freedom

• establishing a limited monarchy

• creating collective farms

Mohandas Gandhi's protests during India's independence movement were often successful because of his application of

• an appeasement policy

• civil disobedience

• traditional caste beliefs

• divide-and-conquer principles

Who was a pivotal leader who fought for the end of apartheid and was even jailed for his efforts?

• F.W. De Klerk

• Nelson Mandela

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Desmond Tutu

Who was the president of South Africa who ordered the release of Mandela from prison and worked with Mandela to have the first democratic elections in South Africa?

• F.W. De Klerk

• Nelson Mandela

• Desmond Tutu

• Alwyn Schlebusch

South African policy of racial segregation involving political and economic discrimination against non-whites.

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Nuremburg Laws

• Apartheid