Middle East
China
Japan & India
Latin America
Mystery Questions
100
True or False: Ataturk's reforms in Turkey were mostly kept after his death.
True
100
____ ordered the killing of thousands of Communists in the Shanghai Massacre.
Chiang Kai-shek
100
This nickname meant "Great Soul"
Mahatma
100
The ________ controlled the major groups within Mexican society, thereby giving it enormous control over the Mexican presidency.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
100
Marcus Garvey stressed the need for the unity of all Africans. What was the name of this movement?
Pan-Africanism
200
In November 1917, the ______ stated Britain's intention to make Palestine a national home for Jews.
Balfour Declaration
200
Who led the People's Liberation Army on the Long March?
Mao Zedong
200
Besides boycott, which method did Mohandas Gandhi use to protest unjust British laws?
civil disobedience
200
What's the name of the Mexican national oil company?
PEMEX
200
The shifting of assets from a rich minority to a poor majority is called what?
redistribution of wealth
300
Name ONE of the countries that determined the borders of most of the nations in the Middle East after World War I:
France OR the United Kingdom
300
In China, in order to fight the larger Nationalist Army, the Communists used ________
guerrilla tactics
300
The ______ developed into big companies that controlled major parts of the Japanese industrial sector.
zaibatsu
300
____ sought to create national art that would show Mexico's past, as well as Mexican festivals and folk customs.
Diego Rivera
300
A government in which a select few people have complete control is called what?
oligarchy
400
Which CONTINENT is the "Middle East" mostly located on?
Asia
400
______ believed that a Chinese revolution would be driven by poverty-stricken and poor peasants rather than the urban working class.
Mao Zedong
400
The 1931 invasion of Manchuria was _______ by the Japanese government.
not approved
400
This policy rejected the use of US military force in Latin America
Good Neighbor Policy
400
Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party after Sun Yat-sen
Chiang Kai-shek
500
Who established the modern state of Iran in 1935?
Reza Shah Pahlavi
500
Chiang Kai-shek's attempt to promote traditional Confucian values while rejecting the extreme individualism of Western capitalism was called what?
New Life Movement
500
By the 1930s, the Muslim League in India was beginning to believe in the creation of a separate Muslim state of ______
Pakistan
500
Cheered by Mexicans as the president who had stood up to the United States
Lazaro Cardenas
500
____ is a similar term for genocide, the deliberate mass murder of particular racial, political, or cultural groups.
ethnic cleansing
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