1. Why Was Christianity Attractive in Some Parts of Africa?

RQ 30-32Study Guide

1. Why was Christianity attractive in some parts of Africa?

2. Why did Indian nationalists support Britain enthusiastically during WWI?

3. Know what the United Nations is and how/why it was formed. Understand the causes for divisions among the permanent members of the United Nations, and how the United States and the Soviet Union responded to these divisions.

4. Why did many of the eastern European nations welcome Communism and Soviet influence after WW II?

5. How did the Chinese govt respond to the protests in Tiananmen Square?

6. When and why did the Soviet Union dissolve? Under whose leadership?

7. When did the British finally recognized Indian independence and how did they partition it?

8. What factors hindered Latin American development, leading to the revolutions of Zapata and Villa?

9. What was ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and when did it occur?

10. What was promised in the Mexican Constitution of 1917?

11. Be familiar to the Bay of Pigs Incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

12. What did Thomas Malthus correctly prophesize in 1798?

13. What was the consequence of the industrialization of Brazil?

14. What event was the catalyst for the space race?

15. Be able to explain the “demographic transition.”

16. Be able to describe both Mohandas Gandhi's role in the Indian independence movement and the direction of that movement after World War I.

17. Explain the difference between the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong

18. Be familiar with Mikhail Gorbachev and his policies of Perestroika and Glasnost. What conditions led to the end of the Cold War and the breaking up of the USSR?

19. Who was Juan Perón and why was he important?

20. How did Buzz Aldrin contribute to the Space Race?

21. Who was Francisco “Pancho” Villa and why was he important?

22. Who was Steve Biko and why was he important?

23. Who was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and why was he important?

24. Who was Emiliano Zapata and why was he important?

25. Who was Mao Zedong and why was he important?

26. Who was Saddam Husain and why was he important?

27. BlaiseDiagne

28. Fidel Castro

29. Be familiar with the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis.

31. Be able to discuss the factors that led to the growth of movements for African independence.

32. What were the circumstances prior to 1911 that triggered the Mexican Revolution?

33. Be able to discuss whether the Cold War was caused more by political ideology or technology. Why did this issue come to overshadow the process and importance of decolonization?

34. Be able to describe the political situation in the Middle East after World War II, with particular emphasis on the region's production of oil.

35. In the years since World War II, how have economic development and population growth altered world migration patterns?