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Southern and Eastern Asian History
SS7H3 The student will analyze continuity and change in Southern and Eastern Asia leading to the 21st century.
a. Describe how nationalism led to independence in India and Vietnam
b. Describe the impact of Mohandas Gandhi’s belief in non-violent protest.
c. Explain the role of the United States in the rebuilding of Japan after World War II.
d. Describe the impact of communism in China in terms of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square.
e. Explain the reasons for foreign involvement in Korea and Vietnam in terms of containment of Communism
H3a
1. Define nationalism.
2. Indian nationalism began in the 1800s as a response to what?
3. What was one of the early goals of the Indian National Congress?
4. Why did Indians help the British during World War I?
5. Why were Indians angered by the Rowlatt Act passed by the British in 1919?
6. What was the effect of the massacre at Amritsar (besides the death of so many innocent people)?
7. Describe what is meant by Mohandas Gandhi’s plan of civil disobedience.
8. When the Indians were offered dominion status in the 1930s, why did they turn it down?
9. What did Gandhi urge Indians to do during World War II and why?
10. Why were many Indians unhappy about independence when it finally came in 1947?
11. What countries were formed in 1947 in addition to independent India?
12. What European power was the colonial ruler of Vietnam in the 1800s and early 1900s?
13. What was Vietnam called in the years before World War II?
14. Who was the leader of the nationalist movement of Vietnam?
15. What was his (answer from #14) political party?
16. What was the goal of the Vietminh League?
17. Why did the French finally decide to leave Vietnam in 1954?
18. What important decision was made at the Geneva Convention in 1954 and why?
19. What country took over temporary control of the southern part of Vietnam?
20. Why did the United States finally leave Vietnam in 1975?
Use the time line on the next page to answer the last 3 questions.
21. When did the United States send marines to Vietnam?
22. About how many years passed from the passage of the Tonkin Resolution to the surrender of South Vietnam?
23. For approximately how many years did the Vietnamese fight for independence?