7.5 - Unresolved Tensions After World War I

Question 1

Decolonization

Answer 1

process of colonies gaining independence from European powers after WWI and WWII

Question 2

Mandate System

Answer 2

League of Nations policy assigning former Ottoman and German territories to European powers to govern until “ready” for independence

Question 3

Balfour Declaration

Answer 3

1917 British statement supporting a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine

Question 4

Civil Disobedience

Answer 4

nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws, used by Gandhi and others

Question 5

Big Three

Answer 5

leaders of US (Roosevelt), Britain (Churchill), and USSR (Stalin) during WWII

Question 6

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 6

leader of Indian independence movement; championed nonviolent resistance

Question 7

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Answer 7

leader of Muslim League; founder of Pakistan

Question 8

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer 8

first prime minister of independent India; key independence leader

Question 9

Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 9

leader of China’s Nationalist Party (Kuomintang); rival of Communists

Question 10

Pan-Arabism

Answer 10

movement of uniting Arab peoples and countries

Question 11

Indian National Congress

Answer 11

main political party leading India’s independence movement

Question 12

Satyagraha (“Devotion to Truth”) Movement

Answer 12

Gandhi’s method of nonviolent protest

Question 13

Salt March

Answer 13

1930 Gandhi-led protest against British salt taxes in India

Question 14

March First Movement

Answer 14

1919 Korean protest against Japanese colonial rule

Question 15

May Fourth Movement

Answer 15

1919 Chinese protest against foreign influence and weak government

Question 16

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Answer 16

communist party led by Mao Zedong; took control of China in 1949

Question 17

Kuomintang

Answer 17

Chinese Nationalist Party, led by Chiang Kai-shek

Question 18

Long March

Answer 18

1934 to1935 retreat by Chinese Communists to evade Nationalists

Question 19

Palestine

Answer 19

region in the middle east; focus of Jewish and Arab nationalist movements

Question 20

Pakistan

Answer 20

Muslim-majority country created from partition of India in 1947

Question 21

Amritsar

Answer 21

Indian city; site of 1919 massacre by British troops

Question 22

Manchukuo

Answer 22

puppet state in Manchuria established in Japan in 1932

Question 23

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Answer 23

Japanese plan for Asian unity under Japanese leadership (really for Japanese control)

Question 24

Zionists

Answer 24

supporters of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Question 25

Mahatma

Answer 25

title meaning "great soul," commonly used for Gandhi

Question 26

Jomo Kenyatta

Answer 26

leader of Kenyan independence; later become first President of Kenya

Question 27

Leopold Sedar Senghor

Answer 27

leader of Senegal's independence movement; poet and first president of Senegal