Question 1

How did the impact of WWI on the US and Europe differ?

Accepted Answer

European countries that suffered damage were economically devastated

The US prospered because of all the war materials and agricultural products it sold to Britain and the other Allies

Question 2

Why did France start to act kinder to its colonies following WWI?

Accepted Answer

A group of large villages in French West Africa (Burkina Faso) united to drive out the French

The French won, but with heavy loses

Caused the French to realize they had an obligation to the people they colonized

Question 3

What did African and Asian nationalists hope to get after WWI?

Accepted Answer

Since so many soldiers in colonies had fought for European countries, they hoped they would earn respect and begin a decolonization process

Question 4

What was the mandate system?

Accepted Answer

A system established by the League of Nations to rule the colonies and territories of the Central Powers

(the Allies took the Central Powers' colonies)

Question 5

What was Pan-Arabism?

Accepted Answer

An ideology that called for unifying all the lands in North Africa and the Middle East

(parallels with Pan-Africanism)

Question 6

What caused Pan-Arabism to occur?

Accepted Answer

The Ottoman Empire broke up, and its territory was essentially given to Britain and France

This infuriated many Arabs, leading to the creation of Pan-Arabism

Question 7

What was the Balfour Declaration?

Accepted Answer

A statement by the British Government that said Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe

(those who supported a Jewish homeland were known as Zionists)

Question 8

What was the Amritsar massacre (Jallianwala Bagh massacre)?

Accepted Answer

A massacre in 1919, India, where British soldiers fired hundreds of shots into an unarmed crowd

Radicalized many Indians, convincing them that they must be independent from Britain

(the crowd formed as a result of Indian nationalists protesting the arrest of two freedom fighters)

Question 9

What was the satyagraha movement?

Accepted Answer

A movement led by Gandhi that encouraged Indians to break unjust laws and serve jail time

Question 10

What is civil disobedience?

Accepted Answer

Refusing to comply with certain laws, often as a form of peaceful protest

(seen in Gandhi's satyagraha movement)

Question 11

What was the Salt March?

Accepted Answer

An act of civil disobedience by Gandhi, where Indians protested Britain's law to make it illegal for Indians to produce their own sea salt

(Gandhi led thousands of Indians to the Arabian Sea and picked up a few grains of salt; Britain wanted a monopoly on the salt market)

Question 12

Who was Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

Accepted Answer

A member of the Muslim minority in the primarily Hindu Indian National congress

Favored creating a separate state, Pakistan, that would include the heavily Muslim parts of India

Question 13

What was the March First Movement?

Accepted Answer

A huge protest by Koreans who called for independence from Japan and against forced assimilation into Japanese culture

Question 14

What was the May Fourth Movement?

Accepted Answer

An anti-imperialist Chinese movement that symbolized China's growing nationalism and demand for democracy

Question 15

What caused the May Fourth Movement?

Accepted Answer

China sided with the Allies during WWI, so they expected to reclaim the land controlled by Germany (Shandong Peninsula)

At the Paris Peace Conference Britain and France gave the land to Japan instead

Question 16

What is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?

Accepted Answer

A political party led by Mao Zedong that believed China's communist revolution could be based on the revolt of peasants, rather than energizing the working classes

(inspired by the Russian Communist Revolution)

Question 17

What is the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)?

Accepted Answer

A political party originally led by Sun Yat-sen who allied with Mao to free China from foreign domination

Later controlled by Chiang Kai-shek who attacked Mao's forces and initiated the Chinese Civil War

Question 18

What was the Long March?

Accepted Answer

A year-long retreat of Mao's army after being attacked by Chiang's forces

Weakened the CCP, but inspired peasant support

Question 19

Who was Chiang Kai-shek?

Accepted Answer

A Chinese Nationalist politician, who took control over the Kuomintang after Sun Yat-sen and distrusted communism

Question 20

What was Manchukuo?

Accepted Answer

A Japanese puppet state formed after the invasion of Manchuria

Question 21

What effect did the invasion of Manchuria have on Japan?

Accepted Answer

The League of Nations condemned Japan's actions, causing it to give up its membership and take more land

Question 22

How did African independence movements begin?

Accepted Answer

European-educated African intellectuals learned to recognize the racial discrimination in their homelands

(Jomo Kenyatta studied in London before becoming the leader of Kenya; Léopold Senghor studied in Paris before becoming the leader of Senegal)

Question 23

What was the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?

Accepted Answer

A group of territories colonized by the Japanese Empire

(Philippines, Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, Burma, and various Pacific islands)

7.5 - Interwar Politics, AP World History: Modern Flashcards