Chapter 28

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In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of "satyagraha" or

"Soul-force".

At no time except the period of independence (in the 19 century) were there more coups, attempted coups, and uprisings in Latin America than during:

1930-1933.

The Allies in World War I recruited volunteers from among their dominions and colonies in considerable numbers, with the British taking ___________ from India alone.

800,000

Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) for the Soviet Union was:

A mixture of private and state investment in factories and small-scale food marketing by peasants.

____________ is defined as the maintenance of a self-supporting state economic system.

Autarky

Japan portrayed its imperial bid in the Pacific in the 1930s as the construction of a "Greater East Asia __________ Sphere."

Co-Prosperity

Mussolini's Fascists claimed that they were inaugurating a "____________", which theoretically saw all sectors of society contributing in a systematic, orderly, and hierarchical fashion to the health of the whole.

Corporate state

"Lawrence of Arabia" helped the members of a prominent family, the ___________ from Mecca, to assume leadership of the Arabs for a promised national kingdom in Syria and Palestine.

Hashemites

Outside the Southern United States, _________ was the state that experienced the surge in racial tensions after World War I, with about 30% of the state's population (including the governor) members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1925.

Indiana

Mao Zedong, a librarian by training, was an inspiring rural organizer, and he set about developing his ideas of revolution with the heretical idea of:

Inviting peasants into the vanguard of his movement.

Members of the "Harlem Renaissance" among African American artists and intellectuals felt that to be of African descent:

Made one part of a larger and richer collective history extending beyond the history of slavery.

Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:

Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.

In early 1918, the Allied position looked:

Precarious, since German forces had been transferred from the Eastern front, and they mounted a spring offensive in the spring.

One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:

That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war

The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except:

The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany

Among the innovative measures enacted by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the "New Deal" were:

The creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), charged with enforcing regulations and preventing a repetition of the Stock Market Collapse of 1929.

Kemal "Atatürk" introduced all of the following measures to Turkey except:

The removal of Anatolian farmers into urban factories and schools.

Irena Sendler smuggled some 2500 Jewish children out of ________ before being arrested and tortured in 1943.

Warsaw

Once Saad Zaghlul and his Wafd party assumed control of Egypt in 1924, they:

Were uninterested in industrial development, leaving Egypt entirely dependent on agricultural production and exports.


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