Question 1

What were the various stages in the rise of nationalist movements in Asia and the Middle East? How did traditional beliefs and practices aid and/or hinder the development of "modern" nationalist movements in Asia and the Middle East? Were these beliefs and practices as influential in this development process as colonial policies and military power? Explain.

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Question 2

Identify the following terms.
-Taisho democracy

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Question 3

Identify the following terms.
-United Fruit Company and the "banana republics"

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-United Fruit Company and...

Question 4

Identify the following terms.
-Lázaro Cárdenas, land reform and PEMEX

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Question 5

How did Gandhian ideas and actions compare with those of Nehru and other Indian nationalists? Might Gandhi's ideas, if generally accepted, have averted the development of a separate Muslin League? Why or why not?

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Question 6

What difficulties or challenges did the United States pose to the political, social, and economic development of Latin America in the interwar years? Be specific.

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Question 7

Identify the following terms.
-zaibatsu

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-zaibatsu...

Question 8

Identify the following terms.
-Mao Dun's Midnight and Ba Jin's Family

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-Mao Dun's Midnight and...

Question 9

"Chinese society was simply too large, both in area and population, and too disorganized by decades of mismanagement under the Manchus, to permit the Guomindang, or any other entity, to effectively govern it during the interwar period." Discuss, pro and con.

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Question 10

Identify the following terms.
-Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

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Question 11

Identify the following terms.
-Shidehara Diplomacy

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-Shidehara Diplomacy...

Question 12

Communist Parties were established in many Asian societies in the years immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution. How successful were these parties in winning popular support and achieving their goals? How did leaders' social-class background, religious and ethnic loyalties, and/or Marxist ideas and the success of the Bolshevik Revolution interact to help shape and motivate the anti-colonial nationalist movements? Why did these interactions differ so widely?

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Question 13

Identify the following terms.
-Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles

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Question 14

Identify the following terms.
-Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

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-Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party...

Question 15

Identify the following terms.
-1922 Washington Conference

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Question 16

Could Gandhi's non-violence and civil disobedience have succeeded against Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union? If so, how? If not, why not?

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Question 17

"The collapse of the Ottoman Empire led directly to the conflicts and challenges facing the Middle East in the early twenty-first century." Discuss pro and con.

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Question 18

How did Japan address the problems of nation building in the first decades of the twentieth century, and why did democratic institutions not take hold more effectively? In what ways did Japan's political system and social structure in the interwar wars combine modern and traditional elements? How successful was the attempt to create a modern political system while retaining indigenous traditions of civil obedience and loyalty to the emperor?

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Question 19

Would Marx, or Lenin, or Stalin have approved of Mao's "road to socialism"? Why and/or why not?

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Question 20

Identify the following terms.
-Argentina's Juan Perón and Brazil's GetúlioVargas

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Quiz 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

Identify the following terms. -Taisho democracy

Identify the following terms. -United Fruit Company and the "banana republics"

Identify the following terms. -Lázaro Cárdenas, land reform and PEMEX

How did Gandhian ideas and actions compare with those of Nehru and other Indian nationalists? Might Gandhi's ideas, if generally accepted, have averted the development of a separate Muslin League? Why or why not?

What difficulties or challenges did the United States pose to the political, social, and economic development of Latin America in the interwar years? Be specific.

Identify the following terms. -zaibatsu

Identify the following terms. -Mao Dun's Midnight and Ba Jin's Family

"Chinese society was simply too large, both in area and population, and too disorganized by decades of mismanagement under the Manchus, to permit the Guomindang, or any other entity, to effectively govern it during the interwar period." Discuss, pro and con.

Identify the following terms. -Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Identify the following terms. -Shidehara Diplomacy

Identify the following terms. -Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles

Identify the following terms. -Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Identify the following terms. -1922 Washington Conference

Could Gandhi's non-violence and civil disobedience have succeeded against Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union? If so, how? If not, why not?

"The collapse of the Ottoman Empire led directly to the conflicts and challenges facing the Middle East in the early twenty-first century." Discuss pro and con.

Would Marx, or Lenin, or Stalin have approved of Mao's "road to socialism"? Why and/or why not?

Identify the following terms. -Argentina's Juan Perón and Brazil's GetúlioVargas