As More Africans Became Aware of the Enormous Gulf Between Western

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Black Africans had fought in World War I (1) ______and French Armies. Many Africans hoped they would be rewarded with (2) ______after the war. The great (3) ______was that colonies stripped from (4) ______after World War I were awarded to Great Britain and France, who then controlled most of Africa.

As more Africans became aware of the enormous gulf between Western

(5) ______and (6) ______, they decided to seek reform. In (7) ______, Harry Thuku was arrested for protesting

(8) ______taxes. By the 1930s, an increasing number of African leaders were calling for independence, not (9) ______.

Young African leaders who had studied abroad were especially influenced by the ideas of (10) ______and (11) ______. Garvey, a Jamaican who lived in Harlem in New York City, stressed the need for the unity of all Africans, a movement known as (12) ______. Léopold Senghor organized an independence movement in (13) ______.

Mohandas Gandhi has become active in the movement for Indian

(14) ______before World War I. The independence movement in India (15) ______into two paths. One identified with Gandhi and was

(16) ______. The other identified with (17) ______and was secular, Western, and modern.

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Japan moved toward a more (18) ______government. But by the 1930s, the Japanese government was dominated by the (19) ______and other supporters of Japanese expansionism. By the end of the 1920s, practically every colonial society in Asia had a (20) ______party.