INDIA and South East Asia 20th Century
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- Q1The purpose of Mohandas Gandhi's actions such as the Salt March and the textile boycott was toresist the power of religious leadersincrease the strength of the militarybegin a cycle of armed revolutiondraw attention to critical issues300s
- Q2In the 1940s, the leadership of the Indian National Congress and the leadership of the Muslim League supported the goal ofestablishing a unified government based on religious teachingshelping the British fight World War IIabolishing caste distinctions and discriminationremoving British control from the subcontinent300s
- Q3Base 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 immoral 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.... "Otto von BismarckHo Chi MinhFidel CastroMohandas Gandhi300s
- Q4One reason India gained its independence from Great Britain in 1947 was thatGreat Britain did not have the resources to maintain an empire after World War IIIndia had supported the Axis Powers during World War IIGreat Britain was defeated in World War Ithe Treaty of Versailles required Great Britain to give up its colonies300s
- Q5Why did large numbers of Hindus and Muslims migrate immediately after India gained its independence?The government offered housing incentives in newly developed areas.Religious pilgrimages to neighboring countries were required based on their beliefs.The subcontinent was divided into countries based primarily on the location of religious majorities.Many jobs were being outsourced oversea300s
- Q6"Struggle Continues for Control of Kashmir" "Many Hurt in Border Clashes Between Hindus and Muslims" Which nations have been most closely associated with the conflicts in these headlines?Sri Lanka and ThailandIndia and PakistanVietnam and CambodiaChina and India300s
- Q7What was one concern associated with both the Korean War and the Vietnam War?Communism would spread through eastern and southeastern Asia.Kim Jong Il and Ho Chi Minh possessed nuclear weapons.French colonial rule would continue to influence the region.Renewed Japanese imperialism would trigger another world war.300s
- Q8Which Southeast Asian nation fought in wars against Japan, France, and the United States during the 20th century?VietnamMyanmar (Burma)ThailandPhilippines300s
- Q9Which was a major result of the Vietnam War?The United States increased its political influence in Southeast Asia.Most Southeast Asian nations adopted a democratic form of government.Relations between Vietnam and China declined significantly.North and South Vietnam were politically reunited.300s
- Q10From the perspective of the North Vietnamese, the war in Vietnam in the 1960s was a battle betweenrepublicanism and totalitarianismFascism and liberalismnationalism and imperialismtheocracy and monarch300s
- Q11Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, the “killing fields,” and Year Zero are all associated with a violent period in which country?ChinaKoreaVietnamCambodia300s
- Q12The Holocaust in Europe and the actions of the Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea (Cambodia) were similar in that they were examples ofgenocidesegregationinterdependenceempathy300s
- Q13One similarity between the actions of Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, and Pol Pot was that they all usedmilitary force to build colonial empirescommunism as a basis for their governmentsintimidation and terror to control peoplefree and open elections to gain power300s
- Q14Which description best fits the Salt March conducted by Mohandas Gandhi?an act of civil disobedience against the Britisha rally for the British during World War IIa statement of support for dividing Indiaa protest against the Sepoy Mutiny300s
- Q15Mohandas Gandhi’s protests during India’s independence movement were often successful because of his application ofdivide-and-conquer principlescivil disobediencean appeasement policytraditional caste beliefs300s