WorksheetsLatin America, Africa, & Middle East Between Wars
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
What key term means "A policy of rigid racial segregation in South Africa."
The word means "apartness" in Afrikaans.
(a)
Which of these men set up the "Constitution of 1917" in Mexico?
He was a rich landowner who wanted political reform, but not dramatic social change.
Pancho Villa
Emiliano Zapata
Venustiano Carranza
After a dispute over workers’ wages in the 1930s, the Mexican government...
paid the wages of the workers.
seized oil fields and foreign oil company properties.
sent troops to the oil fields.
signed the Good Neighbor policy.
Authoritarianism spread in Latin America during the 1930s largely because of...
the Great Depression.
the rise of communism.
American exports.
fear of the powerful landowners.
What was "Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policy for rejecting the use of U.S. military force in Latin America"
Good Neighbor policy
United Fruit Company
Policy of intervention
The Great Depression
T/F: In 1920s Kenya & Rhodesia, native African tribes continued to farm in traditional ways on the most fertile farmland in Africa.
TRUE
FALSE
In which country did nationalist movement create political change (though the British continued to station troops along the Suez Canal)?
Egypt
Kenya
Nigeria
Algeria
Mustafa Kemal was the leader of Turkish nationalists after WWI. What title did he use after coming to power & establishing the "Turkish Republic"?
This word means "father Turk" in Turkish.
(a)
T/F: Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" aimed to keep Turkey traditional & firmly devoted to its Muslim roots. He took the title of "caliph" & claimed to lead all Muslims everywhere.
TRUE
FALSE
What country does this map show, with Damascus as its capital?
Iraq
Jordan
Aleppo
Syria
What TWO European countries took over the Ottoman Empire's Arab territories as "League of Nations mandates"?
Great Britain
France
Germany
Iraq
Italy
What people groups believed they were promised the land of Palestine by the British?
TWO of these are correct!
Zionist Jews
Arab nationalists
French imperialists
Muslim terrorists
Catholic nuns
Which key term means "The takeover of property or resources by the government."
This is what Mexico did to its oil industry in 1938.
Nationalization
Pan-Arabism
Apartheid
Privatization
