SAQ's - On Review Day - 14 Questions

Explain ONE reason why India was partitioned into India and Pakistan.

• The trend that was started by Muhammad Ghandi to grant indians with independence(aka - the India Act of 1935) faced challenges in the form of increasing calls for independent yet seperate Hindu and Muslim states.

• With constant negotiations happening asking the British for independence the Muslims decided to stop resisiting and called for a Day of Direct Action which made them look even more like a threat and led to Jinnah restating his claim that: The only solution to India’s problem is Pakistan.

• This is when that idea of dividing India into separate Hindu and Muslim states begun, Ghandi had visions that this would happen and refugees began migrating to Muslim Pakistan or Hindu India. This is when they were partioned.

Explain ONE factor that advanced the cause of independent in Vietnam.

• Vietnam as it is had already seperating their independence from there complications of the cold war.

• One factor that advanced the cause of independence in Vietnam is that since they became so deeply enmeshed in the cold war, they immediately after World War II engaged in a battle to free themselves from French colonial control.

• Another one is that a Vietnam communist leader named Ho Chi Minh, exploited wartime conditions to advance the cause of Vietnamese independence

Explain ONE way World War II changed the British government in the Palestine Mandate.

• One way World War II changed the British government in the Palestine Mandate was by establishing a secure homeland where Palestinian Arabs and Jews could migrate to avoid persecution.

• The Zionist Movement which helped get rid of the anti-semitism going around and growing that dream of returning to there homeland

• Jewish Migration was allowed in the mandate

• Protected Arabs political and economic rights

Explain ONE reason why the United States did not win in Vietnam

• One reason why the United States did not win in Vietnam is:

  • Nixon turned over the war to the South Vietnamese—termed Vietnamization—by esclating the conflict.

  • He resumed the heavy bombing of North Vietnam

Explain ONE political reason why globalization of consumer goods happened in the late twentieth century.

One political reason why globalization of consumer goods happened in the late twentieth century is:

• New communications media have tied the world together and have promoted a global cultural integration who’s hallmark is consumption

• The industrialization and the subsequent rise in per capita income gave birth to a type of society in which the consumption of goods and services satisfied wants and desires rather than needs and nescessities.

Explain ONE way nationalism contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• One way nationalism contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union is:

  • Nationalism mostly means having independence and self determination, this is something the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians took advantage of when fraying away and declaring there independence from the Soviet Union.

Explain ONE problem the “four little tigers” had to overcome to experience growth by the 1980s.

• One problem the “four little tigers” had to overcome to experience growth by the 1980s was facing a shortage of capital, lacked natural resources, and had to cope with overpopulation, and market niches.

• The transformed these apparent disadvantages into advantages through a program of export-driven industrialization

• After overcoming these issues they were able to bring in Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia into the group of the original tigers.

Explain ONE consequence of the end of the Soviet Union.

• Because the Soviet Union had ended many minorities contemplated secession from the Soviet Union.

  • The Baltics, Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians were the first into the fray, declaring their independence in August 1991

Explain ONE way the Chinese economy was able to grow in the 1990s.

• One way the Chinese economy was able to grow in the 1990s was by China launching economic reforms

• As well as China’s large pool of cheap labor and enormous domestic markets

• The planned economic system they had in the past gave way to a market economy, where demand for goods and sevices determined production and pricing, and where the role of the government was limited to providing a stable but competitive environment.

Explain ONE way reform policies were implemented(put into effect) in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev and how they were meant to improve the Society Union socially, politically, or economically.

• One way reform policies were implemented in the Soviet Union By Mikhail Gorbachev - was by changing the existing policies as a whole and developing new ones

• His policies focused on the ailing economy

  • imposing rationing to cope with the scarcity of essential consumer goods and food.

  • Economic stagnation in turn contributed to the decline of the Soviet standard of living

Identify and explain how ONE company or product demonstrates globalization in the late 20th century.

• Globalization means taking these products out internationally and extending buisness activities across borders in pursuit of importation, exportation, and the extraction of raw materials.

• This corporate landscape has resulted in the birth of many different global corporations.

• They rely on a small headquarters staff while dispersing all other corporate functions across the globe in search of the lowest possible operating costs.

• Global corporations treat the world as a single market and act as if the nation-state no longer states.

• Some examples of these huge corporations or companies are: General Motors, and Nestle.

One company or product that demonstrates globalization in the late 20th century

Explain ONE way in which non-African events may have dictated the timing of states achieving their independence in Africa.

• One way in which non-African events may have dictated the timing of states achieving their independence in Africa is by

  • The legacies of imperialism, either direct or indirect, hindered the creation of democratic institutions in many parts of the world—in recently declonized nations one being Latin America.

Identify and explain ONE way in which the cold war impacted events in Africa.

One way the cold war impacted events in Africa was by causing the AIDS epidemic to grow and increase. Turned it into a battle ground for influence the US and USSR, supported different sides of Africa and gave supplies.

Explain ONE reason why some states were able to peacefully gain independence as opposed to resorting to armed revolt.

Through Negotiation Tactics as well as strong leaders and public support that helped avoid violence