Chapter 15/16 Quiz (Sauter)

• haciendas


  large plantations controlled by the landowning elite
• nationalization


  government takeover
• economic nationalization


  emphasis on home control of the economy
• cultural nationalization


  pride in ones own culture
• good neighbor policy

  pledge by the United States to lessen its involvement in Latin American affairs
• apartheid


  policy of legal segregation
• Pan-Africanism`


  emphasized the unity of Africans and people of African descent worldwide
• Balfour Declaration


  advocated the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine
• negritude movement


  movement in which writers expressed pride in their African roots
• Asia Minor


  Turkish peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
• Amritsar massacre


  massacre of Indian people protesting British rule
• ahimsa


  doctrine that Gandhi preached
• civil disobedience

  refusal to obey unjust laws
• untouchables


  members of the lowest caste
• What party dominated Mexican politics from the 1930s through the free election of 2000?

  Industrial Revolutionary Party
• Mexican constitution of 1917


  made church land "the property of the nation"
• one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizen's lives

  totalitarian state
• system of brutal Russian labor camps

  gulag
• Nazi secret police

  Gestapo
• militant supporters of Benito Mussolini

  black shirts
• "Nigh of Broken Glass"


  Kristallnacht
• fear of Communist Radicals taking over

  Red Scare
• class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed

  kulaks
• Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the


  New Deal
• What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s?


  supremacy of the state
• What is an example of the rise of cultural nationalism in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s?

  the revival of mural painting
• Which of the following was an important factor in bringing about the Mexican Revolution?

  the urban middle class wanted democracy
• In the 1930s, what effect did the Great Depression have in Latin America?


  people lost faith in the ideas of liberal government
• one of Ataturk's reforms in Turkey was to

  reject religion in laws and government
• American philosopher Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohandas Gandhi through his ideas on


  civil disobedience
• Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi


  preached that the power of love could change wrongdoers
• twenty-one demands


  sought to make China a Japanese protectorate
• In 1931, Japanese ultranationalists seized the Chinese province of

  Manchuria
• How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931?

  it condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it
• As a result of the Treaty of Sèvres, the Ottoman empire


  lost its Arab and North African lands
• the purpose of apartheid in South Africa was to

  ensure white economic, political, and social supremacy
• Why did many Muslim religious leaders in Persia disapprove of the reforms introduced by Reza Khan?

  he replaced Islamic law with secular law
• Turkish nationalists, led by Ataturk


  overthrew the Ottoman sultan and declared Turkey a republic
• Which of the following was a turning point in the Indian independence movement in 1919?

  Hundreds of Indians were killed at Amritsar
• As part of the struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi urged Indians to

  boycott British goods