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Chapter 30 Nationalism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
  1. Kemal Atatürk, in banning the fez, was trying to ____________
   A) end the use of all religious symbols.
   B) make Turkey appear more Western.
   C) please the British.
   D) promote the wearing of military clothes.
  2. What event convinced the British to grant Egypt its independence?
   A) the publication of the Balfour Declaration
   B) the interference of the League of Nations
   C) a general strike in Egypt
   D) Italy's invasion of Ethiopia
  3. Of the following, which is characteristic of Mohandas Gandhi's methods of achieving independence for India?
   A) civil disobedience
   B) boycotts
   C) nonviolence
   D) all of the above
  4. What effect did the 1935 Government of India Act have?
   A) It gave provincial governments more control.
   B) It abolished the Indian National Congress.
   C) It started a religious war between Muslims and Hindus.
   D) all of the above
  5. The efforts of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek were directed mainly toward ____________
   A) driving the Japanese out of China.
   B) setting up warlords to rule the different parts of China.
   C) restoring a strong central government to China.
   D) raising the living standards of millions of Chinese peasants.
  6. From what were the Chinese Communist forces fleeing during the Long March?
   A) invading European armies
   B) Chinese nationalists
   C) Japanese forces
   D) the combined forces of several warlords
  7. Following World War I, what did Japan lack for industrial growth that caused it to look for outside sources?
   A) foreign trade
   B) population
   C) mineral resources
   D) industry
  8. What circumstance showed that Japanese militarists were in control of government policy in the 1930s?
   A) the issuance of the Twenty-One Demands
   B) the conquest of Manchuria
   C) the crowning of Emperor Hirohito
   D) America's anti-immigration policy
  9. What important resource did Mexico have that gave it some economic independence?
   A) oil
   B) forests
   C) coal
   D) land
  10. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to improve relations with Latin America by ____________
   A) passing the Monroe Doctrine.
   B) sending former president Hoover on a goodwill tour there.
   C) backing Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.
   D) instituting the Good Neighbor policy.



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