NEW
Font size
WorksheetsWH Unit 11 Test #1: The World Between the Wars (11.1-11.4)
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
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
A movement founded by French-speaking West Africans & people of African descent in the Caribbean that expressed pride in their African heritage & protested colonial rule.
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Arabism
Negritude Movement
Apartheid
Western-educated officials, peasants, landowners, Christians, and Muslims within ______ united behind the Wafd party, which launched strikes & protests, and eventually this resulted in independence under King Faud, with British troops only staying to protect the King and the Suez Canal.
Egypt
Persia
Iraq
Palestine
What happened in Turkey as a result of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) taking power?
Turkey westernized and improved human rights & industrializaiton.
It set Turkey back 100 years in human rights; women wore forced to isolate, and slavery was reintroduced.
Turkey became a dictatorship with Ataturk as the king, and it became a Christian nation.
Islamic customs became the law of the land, religious schools replaced state schools, and Arabic alphabet replaced the Latin alphabet.
Which is not true of Persia (Iran) under Shah Reza Khan?
It became more secular & modernized.
Islamic religious leaders supported the Shah.
Persians gained more control over the oil industry from the British.
Women gained more rights & were encouraged to take part in public life.
Nationalist movement built on the shared heritage of Arabs from the Arabian peninsula to North Africa
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Americanism
Pan-Arabism
Peter Pan
Affirmed Britain’s support for establishing a “national home for the Jewish people” in the Palestine Mandate.
The Treaty of Paris
The Balfour Declaration
Theodor Herzl
The Treaty of Sevres
What was the INITIAL reaction from the Arabs when Jewish immigrants set up modern western-style factories, businesses, and towns in Palestine.
They welcomed modernization.
They rejected modernization.
They immediately attacked.
They were indifferent.
Leader in the Indian National Congress who would later be known as "The Great Soul;" He was educated in Britain as a lawyer, fought for the rights of Indians in South Africa, and eventually led India's independence movement with peaceful civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
General Reginald Dyer
Dyer Maker
Which of the the following was NOT a major influence on Gandhi's idea of civil disobedience?
Chrisitan teachings
Muslim teachings
Henry David Thoreau
ahimsa
Which long-held Indian tradition did Gandhi reject?
ahimsa
dhota
the caste system
reincarnation
"the refusal to obey unjust laws," practice used by Gandhi & MLK.
civil disobedience
ahimsa
militant protest
dhota
What was used as the symbol of the Indian nationalist movement after Gandhi rose to prominence in 1921?
the hand
the dhota
the spinning wheel
salt
What led to Gandhi staging the Salt March?
The British banned Indians from making their own salt; instead, the British held a monopoly over the salt industry.
The Indians held a monopoly over the salt trade, and the British wanted to impose taxes on them and stop the monopoly.
The British taxed salt every time that the Indians made it.
The United States intervened in the British/Indian War, causing the price of salt to skyrocket.
What happened at the end of the Salt March?
Britain repealed the salt laws.
Gandhi & followers were arrested for making salt; this led the rest of the world to have sympathy for Indians.
Gandhi made salt, and was promptly shot by the British, making him a martyr and leading to Indian independence.
Britain strengthened the salt laws and took more freedom away from Indians.
What caused delays in India's push for independence?
The Salt March
The Amritsar Massacre
The death of Gandhi
WWII
What was Sun Yat Sen's response in 1912 when he saw that the 400 million Chinese people were not unified behind his Three Principles of the People?
He declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty.
He stepped down.
He became a communist.
He made them the law of the land anyway and enforced by killing communists.
What happened when Yuan Shikai took over the Chinese government in 1912?
He made it a democracy.
He immediately stepped down.
He tried to start a new imperial dynasty.
He turned communist.
When Japan invaded China with the Twenty One Demands, what was Yuan's response?
He crushed them.
He had to give in to some of the demands because China was weak.
He convinced Japan to join them in communism.
He requested aid from the Soviet Union.
What did women within the "May Fourth Movement" in China push for?
the right to vote
an end to foot-binding and seclusion
an end to communist rule
an end to the Yuan dynasty
1921: Sun Yat Sen and his ________ (Nationalist) party established a government in south China, and planned to raise an army to defeat the local warlords in the north.
Communist
Guomindang
Yuan
Soviet
What happened after Jiang Jieshi took over the Guomindang in 1925?
He turned on his communist allies in fear that they were a threat to his own power.
He converted the Guomindang to communism.
He tried to start his own dynasty with himself as emperor.
He made the Guomindang part of the Soviet Union.
Who led the Chinese Communist Party?
Jiang Jieshi
Mao Zedung
Emperor Puyi
Sun Yat Sen
What was the Long March?
The 6,000 mile march of the communists as they fled attacks for the Guomindang in the 1930s.
The 6,000 mile march of the Guomindang as they fled attacks for the communists in the 1930s.
Gandhi's 240 mile Salt March to the sea.
Sun Yat Sen's march for civil disobedience from Tokyo to Nanjing.
Why did Jiang and the Guomindang fail to eradicate the communists in the 22-year civil war?
The communists were more powerful and had more resources.
The Japanese attacked, forcing the Guomindang and the communists into an uneasy alliance.
The Soviet Union attacked and forced the communists and Guomindang into an uneasy alliance.
The Communists had help from the Japanese.
What decision did Japan grow to resent, eventually breaking the agreement?
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Versailles
The 1922 agreement to stop expansion into China & limit the size of the navy.
The 1936 agreement to form an alliance with Germany & Italy.
As more and more Japanese sought individual freedom, ________ within the government blamed the zaibatsu, who were corrupting the government, and western influences for undermining the traditional respect for authority.
liberals
conservatives
daimyo
bureaucrats
What ultimately led to Japan resuming expansion into China in the 1930s?
The Great Depression
WWII
The 1922 agreement to strengthen the navy.
The Treaty of Versailles
How did Japan justify invading and taking Manchuria?
The military staged a fake attack, blowing up a section of Japanese railroad and blaming it on the Chinese.
They voted on it in the Japanese congress.
The military feared Chinese Communism and they wanted to take over the country to keep it from spreading.
Jiang had attacked Japan already in 1922, this was just retaliation.
What was Japan's response when the League of Nations condemned their invasion of China?
They apologized.
They left the League of Nations.
They declared war.
They left China.
Japan joined an alliance in 1936 with which countries?
Germany and Italy
Germany and the Soviet Union
Great Britain, the US, France, and the Soviet Union
China, Iran, Russia, Germany, and Italy
