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Walker AP World History Ch 29Reading Study Guide #2 P. 700-718
1. What event opened the way for a decades long struggle for control of China? Pg. 700
2. What group would eventually prove victorious in this struggle? Pg. 700
3. Who planned to seize the vacant Manchu throne and start new imperial dynasty? Pg. 700
4.What was Sun Yat-sen’s Revolutionary Alliance? Pg. 701
5. Why did his “presidency” have little effective power in China? How was Chinaactually governed? Pg. 701
6. How and when did Japan attempt to make China a giant Japanese protectorate? Pg. 701
7. What was the May Fourth Movement? Pg. 701
8. Who was the first Chinese scholar to modify Marxism to “fit” China? How did he justify this? Pg. 702
9. What future leader came under the influence of this scholar during his school days in Beijing? Pg. 702
10. What is the Guomindang? What were their goals? Pg. 702
11. What was the WhampoaMilitaryAcademy? Who set it up? Pg. 703
12. Who rose to prominence in the Guomindang? How did he feel about the Communist alliance? Pg. 702-703
13. Describe Mao Zedong’s background.How did he feel about revolution? Pg. 702
14. How did Chaing Kai-shek become the nominal ruler of China after Sun Yat-sen’s death? Was he in full control of the country? Pg. 703
15. What was the Long March? Pg. 704
16. What were the causes of The Great Depression? Pg. 705
17. How was European prosperity “fragile”? Pg. 705
18. How did protectionism make matters worse? Pg. 705
19. What were the outcomes of the New York stock market crash of 1929? Pg. 705-706
20. What were some of the negative impacts of the Great Depression? Pg.706
21. In what ways was the Great Depression ‘a truly international collapse’? Pg. 706
22. What two possibilities were faced by parliamentary governments dealing with the Great Depression?Pg. 707
23.What was the Popular Front in France? Pg. 707
24. What was the New Deal in the US? Who brought it about? Did it actually solve the Great Depression? Pg. 708
25. How did the Great Depression lead directly to a fascist government for Germany? Pg. 708
26. Why did various groups support Hitler and the National Socialists? Pg. 708
27. What is a totalitarian state? Pg. 709
28. What was Hitler’s attitude toward and treatment of the Jews? Pg. 709
29. Where else did fascist and semi-fascist regimes crop up in Europe? Pg. 709
30. How did the Spanish Civil War break out? Pg. 710
31. Who led the fascist forces? Pg. 710
32. Who aided the fascist side? Pg. 710
33. Who aided or, at least, paid lip-service to aiding the republican side? Pg. 710
(Visualizing The Past:Guernica and the images of War, Pg. 711) Read it no questions
34. What was the condition of the middle class in Latin America during the 1920-30s? Pg. 710
35.What was corporatism? Pg. 711
36. Describe some of the reforms and achievements of President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico. Pg. 711
37. How did President/Dictator Getulio Vargas reform government in Brazil? Pg. 712
38. What was Brazil’s role in WWII? Pg. 712
39. What has been Vargas’s legacy in Brazil since his death by suicide? Pg. 712
40. How did Juan Peron rise to power in Argentina? Pg. 712
41. How did Peron maintain power? Pg. 713
42. What were Peron’s reforms? Pg. 713
43. How did Japan’s government evolve into a military dictatorship in the 1930s?Pg. 713
44. What territories did the Japanese Empire control? What natural resources were they after? Pg. 714
45. Why was the Soviet Union “buffered” from the worst effects of the Great Depression? Pg. 715
46. What was the outcome of collectivized agriculture? Pg. 715
47. What happened to the kulaks? Pg. 715
48. What was the purpose of Stalin’s Five Year Plans? Were the successful? Pg. 717
49. To whom does Stearns compare Stalin? Pg. 717
50. What is Socialist Realism? Pg. 717
51. What was the purpose of the purges? Pg. 718
52. In what ways did Stalin develop a totalitarian regime in the USSR? Pg. 718
53. In what ways was the USSR threatened by Hitler’s Germany? Pg. 718
54. What do you think motivated Stalin into signing a Non-Aggression Pact with Germany in 1939? Pg. 718
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