Ch 22: Reading Questions: (2-4 Sentence Response Required)

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Ch 22: Reading Questions: (2-4 Sentence Response Required)

WHAP Unit 6: Chapter 22-23 Reading Guide Name: Hour: Read Chapter 22 and explain the significance of the following:

1. Decolonization 8. Muhammad Ali Jinnah 14. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

2. Zionist Movement 9. African National Congress 15. Muslim League

3. Balfour Declaration

10. Nelson Mandela

4. Abdul Ghaffar Khan 16. Ayatollah Khomeini

5. Indian National Congress 11. Black Consciousness

17. Export-led industrialization 6. Mohandas K. Gandhi 12. Apartheid

18. Import substitution industrialization 7. Satyagraha 13. Soweto

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Ch 22: Reading Questions: (2-4 sentence response required)

1. In what ways did the experience of the “global south” during the past century register on the larger stage of world history?

2. What was distinctive about the end of African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? 3. What international circumstances and social changes contributed to the end of colonial empires?

4. List 4 or more obstacles that confronted the leaders of movements for independence.

5. Create a timeline of 5 major independence events in India from 1885-1947 and then explain how India’s nationalist movement change over time?

6. What was the role of Gandhi in India’s struggle for independence?

7. Explain why the majority black population in South Africa had a delayed African rule until 1994.

8. Create a timeline of 7 major events that explain the history of Apartheid in South Africa.

9. Create a Venn diagram with 9 total bullets that compare the anti-colonial struggles for freedom between African nations and India.

10. What led to erosion of democracy and establishment of military governments in many African and Latin American nations? 11. What obstacles impeded the economic development of third-world countries?

12. How did cultural revolutions in Turkey and Iran reflect different understandings of the role of Islam in modern societies?

13. Two Viewpoints – The End of Apartheid in South Africa

Directions: Read the documents below and then answer the question that follows.

Excerpt from Mosima Gabriel Sexwale (1978) Excerpt from Van Zyl Slabbert (1998)

“I remember a period in the early 1960s, when there was “Factors such as South Africa’s changing demography a great deal of political tension, and we often used to [population], the rate of urbanization, the striving of the encounter armed police in Soweto. . . . I remember the majority of people for a place in the sun, make it humiliation to which my parents were subjected by whites impossible . . . for the anachronistic [outdated] viewpoint in shops and in other places where we encountered them, of the right wing and sections of government [apartheid] and the poverty. All these things had their influence on my to survive.” young mind . . . and by the time I went to Orlando West High School, I was already beginning to question the injustice of the society . . . and to ask why nothing was being done to change it.”

Question: According to Sexwale and Slabbert, what factors led to the end of apartheid? Cite textual evidence from the excerpts to support your answer. (3 or more sentences)

Ch 22 Chart: Utilizing your textbook and online resources complete the following chart of Independence in African nations. (2-3 sentences)

Explain the stories of independence and conflicts from 1919 to present-day in each African nation.

14. Ghana

15. Kenya 16. Algeria

17. Democratic Republic of Congo

18. Nigeria

19. South Africa

20. Zimbabwe

21. Botswana

22. Rwanda and Burundi

23. Sudan and Chad

24. Tunisia

25. Tanzania

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Read Chapter 23 and explain the significance of the following:

1. Neoliberalism 7. Prague Spring 12. George H. W. Bush

2. Re-globalization

8. Fundamentalism

13. War on Terror

3. North/South gap 9. Islamic renewal 4. Anti-globalization 10. Osama bin Laden 14. Second-wave feminism

5. Taliban

15. Transnational Corporation

11. September 11, 2001

6. Al-Qaeda 16. Global warming

17. Environmentalism

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Ch 23: Reading Questions: (2-4 sentence response required)

1. What factors contributed to economic globalization in the second half of the 20th century?

2. How do people around the world benefit from economic globalization?

3. Explain any new divisions economic globalization has generated politically or socially.

4. What distinguished feminism in the industrialized countries from that in the “global south”? 5. In what respects did the various religious fundamentalisms of the 20th century express hostility toward global modernity?

6. Explain the sources from which Islamic renewal movements derived.

7. Explain the variety of ways Islamic renewals expressed themselves.

8. Explain why there has been a dramatic increase in the human impact on the environment in the 20th-21st centuries.

9. What differences emerged between environmentalism in the Global North and that in the Global South?

10. Who is Rachel Carson and why is she highlighted in the last chapter of your textbook? ______/10

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