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Unit XIV: Global Domination

Timeline

Directions: After reading sections 1, 3, and 4 of “Chapter 21: The Height of

Imperialism, 1800-1914 AD”, “Chapter 22.3: Rise of Modern Japan”, and “Chapter
25: Nationalism Around the World, 1919-1939”, answer each question in
complete sentences (noun/verb agreement and proper nouns only) on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. What economic benefits did European nations see in Asian and African
societies?
2. What is “imperialism”?
3. What are several reasons Westerners began to increase their search for colonies
after 1880?
4. What was the “white man’s burden”?
5. Why did the French form the Union of French Indochina?
6. What is a protectorate?
7. What was unique about Thailand?
8. What did King Mongkut and King Chulalongkorn promote in their country?
9. Which islands did the United States gain as a result of the Spanish-American
War?
10.What useful role did U.S. President McKinley see for the Philippine Islands?
11.Who was the leader in the fight for Filipino independence?
12.What colonial economic practices by plantation owners and governments
harmed peasants?
13.Growing Indian mistrust of the British led to what major event in 1857? What
was this event called?
14.What new title was bestowed upon Queen Victoria in 1876?
15.What is a viceroy?
16.What benefits did British rule bring to India?
17.What was the purpose of Lord Thomas Macaulay’s school system?
18.What happened to the Indian population between 1800-1900 and why?
19.In general, how did the British view and treat the Indians?
20.What did the INC call for?
21.What was the purpose of Gandhi’s non-violence movement?
22.Who were creoles? … mestizos? … peninsulares?
23.What happened in Latin America as a result of Napoleon’s overthrow of the
monarchies of Spain and Portugal?
24.What was the first independent state in Latin America and who led the revolt?
25.What historical incident had Miguel Hidalgo studied?
26.What were Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar hailed as? What did they do?
27.What did the Monroe Doctrine guarantee and warn against?
28.Who built the Panama Canal? Which bodies of water did it connect?
29. What was the basis of wealth, social prestige, and political power in 19th century
Latin America?
30.Which Mexican revolutionary led the peasants to seize the estates of wealthy
landowners?
31.What was the first foreign power to succeed in opening up Japan? Who led the
expedition?
32.What was Mutshuhito’s reign called?
33.What did Meiji reformers set out to do?
34.What did Japan need in order to compete with the West?
35.What were the results of the Russo-Japanese War?
36.What did Japan do in 1910?
37.During World War I, which British adventurer helped undermine Ottoman rule in
the Arabian Peninsula?
38.What is ethnic cleansing?
39.In the 1920s, who founded the state of Saudi Arabia?
40.What transformed the economy of Saudi Arabia in the 1930s?
41.What was the promise and purpose of the Balfour Declaration?
42.What were the consequences of the Balfour Declaration for the Middle East?
43.What reward did many Africans hope for after fighting in the British and French
armies during World War I?
44.What does “Mahatma” mean? Who did this title refer to?
45.What is civil disobedience?
46.What was the Salt March?
47.In the 1930s, what did the Muslim League hope for?
48. What is a zaibatsu?
49.Explain the rise in industrial and military power in Japan from the arrival of
Commodore Perry to the 1930s.
50.What was the Black Dragon Society?
51.Who invaded Manchuria in 1931?
52.Who became the new head of the Chinese Nationalist Party after Sun Yat-sen’s
death?
53.Who ordered the killing of thousands of Communists during the Shanghai
Massacre?
54.Who did Mao Zedong believe would drive the Chinese revolution?
55.What are guerilla tactics? Who used them against whom during the Chinese
Revolution?
56.Who led the People’s Liberation Army on the Long March?
57.What was the “New Life Movement”?
58.What is the “redistribution of wealth”?
59.What was U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy?
60.In the early 1900s, what was Brazil’s main crop?
61.Which artist sought to create national art that would portray Mexico’s past and
culture?