WH Unit 11 Test #1: The World Between the Wars (11.1-11.4)

Under Porfirio Diaz, Most Mexicans were mestizos & Indians who lived in poverty working on _______(plantations) owned by the elite.

• gestapos

• haciendas

• carnitas

• caudillos

How did Carranza come to power in Mexico?

• He murdered President Madero.

• He teamed with Pancho Villa's & Emiliano Zapata's peasant revolts, but eventually turned on them when the US deposted Huerta.

• He became president by winning an election over Victoriano Huerta.

• Porfirio Diaz appointed him President, but Madero disagreed, so Carranza and Huerta killed Madero, then Carranza killed Huerta; Woodrow Wilson sent troops to protect him.

What major reform from the Constitution of 1917 in Mexico would go on to become the most important to Mexican industry in the 1930s?

• Church land became property of the nation.

• Provisions for nationalization of natural resources.

• Protection of the right to strike.

• Setting a minimum wage.

Which of the following was NOT a result of the involvement of the PRI and President Cardenas in Mexican politics?

• Social reform & stability for all classes of Mexicans.

• The eventual nationalization of the oil industry.

• Redistribution of land to the peasants.

• The restrictions on foreigners' ownership of land.

What happened between Mexico, Great Britain, and the U.S. when Mexico nationalized all oil resources in 1938?

• The U.S. and Britain declared war on Mexico.

• The U.S closed the border to all immigrating Mexicans, Britain declared a boycott on Mexican made goods.

• Mexico paid compensation to the British & U.S. oil companies for their losses.

• Mexico banned immigration from U.S. and British citizens.

As a result of WWI and the Great Depression, the demand for natural resources in Latin American countries dropped, and the prices of consumer goods imported to Latin American countries increased. What ideology is the best choice to combat this situation and ease the financial burden on the people?

• cultural nationalism

• isolationism

• economic nationalism

• imperialism

Painting murals in Mexico date back to Aztec and Mayan times; the revival of this practice is an example of _____.

• cultural nationalism

• political nationalism

• isolationism

• economic nationalism.

Franklin Roosevelt enacted this from the 1930s until 1945; a pledge for the U.S. to stop intervening in Latin America.

• The Good Neighbor Policy

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Roosevelt Corollary

• Big Stick Diplomacy

Policy of racial segregation in South Africa that lasted until the 1990s.

• Jim Crow Laws

• apartheid

• Libertad

• Pan-Africanism

Emphasis on the unity of Africans and the people of African descent worldwide that began to gain momentum in the 1920s.

• Pan-Africanism

• Pan-Arabism

• Apartheid

• Negritude Movement