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KAP Unit 13 Political Oppression & Independence Movements

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Used nonviolence and civil disobedience to reach his goal of an independent India

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Mohandas Gandhi

c)

Mother Teresa

d)

Barrack Obama

2.

What role did Western education have on nations wanting independence from European powers?

a)

exposed them to the ideals of democracy

b)

exposed them to western fashions

c)

it made them support European leaders

d)

it caused them to question wanting their independence

3.

Who becomes South Africa’s first president elected in a fair election?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Barrack Obama

c)

Mohandas Gandhi

d)

Mother Teresa

4.

What was significant about the protests seen by Gandhi in India and Nelson Mandela in South Africa?

a)

both used nonviolence and civil disobedience

b)

both overthrew their leaders

c)

both protested by killing half the European population in their nation

d)

both were elected president of their newly freed nations

5.

What happened to people in China that protest for democracy?

a)

jailed or killed

b)

supported

c)

deported

d)

listened to

6.

The one modernization NOT given in China

a)

democracy

b)

industry

c)

military

d)

agriculture

7.

He enacted plans to modernize technology, military, farming, and industry in China

a)

Deng Xiaoping

b)

Nelson Mandela

c)

Mao Zedong

d)

Mohandas Gandhi

8.

How did colonies participate in WWI and WWII?

a)

they sent troops, finished goods, and raw materials

b)

they provided doctors for wounded soldiers

c)

the wars were fought in the colonies

d)

they built the atomic bombs used to end the war

9.

How will WWI and WWII affect colonies desire for independence?

a)

they want to remain under European control

b)

they want to put their local leaders in power

c)

it will create a deeper desire for wanting independence

d)

they want to modernize their industrial system

10.

What affect will WWII have on European powers?

a)

unable to justify the cost of maintaining colonies

b)

European nations will fight over colony control

c)

there will be a greater demand from colonies for raw materials

d)

they will exploit colony labor to rebuild Europe

11.

After the WWI and WWII there was a decline of political dominance of Europe which will helped colonized nations gain their independence

a)

true

b)

false

12.

What happened in Africa after European nations ended their control?

a)

nations went back to their original borders

b)

nations held elections for African presidents

c)

nations fought over control

d)

families were separated

13.

How did Europe decide how to divide Africa before independence movements took place?

a)

Berlin Conference

b)

Africa Conference

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

The Divide of Africa

14.

What is a lasting effect that European powers left after colonization in places like Africa ended?

a)

European powers ignored ethnic and cultural ties

b)

European powers attempted to keep family groups together

c)

European powers sent people of Africa into concentration camps

d)

European powers set up democratic governments before leaving

15.

The Hutu militias followed a clear and premeditated attempt to exterminate the country's ethnic Tutsi population

a)

Rwandan Genocide

b)

Tutsi Genocide

c)

Hutu Genocide

d)

Africa Genocide

16.

When the Khmer Rouge attempted to “purify” Cambodia of western culture, which group was not targeted?

a)

intellectuals

b)

former government officials

c)

Buddhist monks

d)

farmers

17.

Politically motivated genocide of the Japanese Army that marched into China’s capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder half the population

a)

Nanking Genocide

b)

Rape of Nanking

c)

Chinese Genocide

d)

Extermination of Nanking

18.

Both arrested and jailed for their nonviolence protests, in hopes to silence their cause. (choose both that apply)

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Mohandas Gandhi

c)

Mother Teresa

d)

Mao Zedong

19.

Politically motivated genocide carried out by the government of the Ottoman Empire, More than half the Armenian population were annihilated

a)

Ottoman Massacre

b)

Armenian Genocide

c)

Armenian Annihilation

d)

Armenian Holocaust

20.

Students protested the Chinese Communist government, calling for democracy, and were met with violence from the military, killing thousands

a)

Tiananmen Square Protest

b)

Anti-Communist Student Protest

c)

Tiananmen Massacre

d)

Cultural Revolution

21.

Mothers march to the Presidential Palace in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires protesting the killings and kidnappings of 30,000 people in the 1970’s

a)

Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo

b)

La Marcha de la Madre

c)

La Marcha de los Desaparecidos

d)

Las treinta mil desaparecidas

22.

Mother Teresa

a)

won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the homeless and poor living on the streets of India

b)

helped bring an end of apartheid in south africa

c)

helped India gain their independence from Britain through civil disobedience

d)

became the Prime Minister of Britain and freed all colonized nations

23.

Feeling called by God, left her home and became a missionary at the age of 18 to aid the less fortunate

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Mohandas Gandhi

c)

Mother Teresa

d)

Joan of Arc

24.

Jewish national movement hoping to rebuild a Jewish nation state in the ancient Jewish homeland

a)

Zionism Movement

b)

Apartheid

c)

Palestine Movement

d)

Catholicism Movement

25.

Helped lead to an end to apartheid in South Africa

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Mohandas Gandhi

c)

Mother Teresa

d)

Prince Willams

26.

Policy in South Africa for legal separation of races

a)

segregation

b)

civil rights

c)

apartheid

d)

south african race law