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A Quick Tour of China, Korea, India, Vietnam and the Middle East
A Unit 9 Review Reading
Use the brown World History text (a quick summary source) to address the
following questions. For a proficient level of credit (up to 80%), you may
answer only the highlighted items.
China (656-657)
1. What problems did China have in the age of
Imperialism?
2. What three things did revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen want
for China?
3. Why did Sun Yat-Sen ask European nations for help
(what did he need help with)? Why did they refuse?
4. Why did the Lenin and the Soviet Union help Sun Yat-Sen?
5. Who was Chiang Kai-shek and what was his opinion of
the communists?
6. Who did the bankers and business people support?
7. Why did the peasants support Mao Zedong?
8. What temporarily stopped the civil war?
Korean War (710-712)
9. Why was Korea divided up at the end of WWII?
10. What started the Korean War?
11. How did the United Nations help South Korea?
12. After each side nearly defeated the other, what was the territorial
outcome of the war?
13. What are two reasons that make the Korean War important?
The Middle East (737-740)
14. What drove the Jews away from Palestine?
15. What caused Jews to want to return to Palestine?
16. What was the problem with moving back to Palestine?
17. What effect did the events of WWII have on Jews’ desire
for a homeland?
18. Who was in control of Palestine when it was divided
between the Palestinians and the Jews? Who opposed this
division?
19. What happened in 1948 that caused Palestinians to lose most of the land
in Palestine?
20. How many wars has Israel fought with Arab neighbors since 1948?
21. How was the PLO formed? Why have they engaged in terrorism?
22. How have children gotten involved?
23. What areas did Israelis allow Palestinians to control?
24. Where does the situation stand now?
India (742-744)
25. Why is India such a diverse place?
26. Who controlled India in 1858?
27. Why did Indians want independence?
28. Who was India’s most important nationalist leader? What
was this leader’s technique for getting independence?
29. After independence, what two problems did India face that
prevented it from being unified?
30. What was the caste system? How did Gandhi attack it?
31. Why was Pakistan created?
32. What were the costs of religious violence in India?
More on China (745-747)
33. Who was the common enemy of the communists and the
nationalists?
34. What strategy did the communists use against the
Japanese?
35. Once WWII ended and the civil war resumed, which side
did the U.S. support? Who supported Mao Zedong’s
communists? Who did most Chinese people support?
35.5 What was the Long March?
36. Why did Chiang Kai-shek’s forces lose control of China?
37. Why did the United States and China not trust each other? How and
when did that change?
Vietnam (748-749)
38. Who was in control of Vietnam before WWII? Who led the
Vietnamese against the Japanese during WWII?
39. Why did Ho Chi Minh fight against the French? Who did the
U.S. support and why?
40. Why did Vietnam get divided into two sections?
41. Why did elections in South Vietnam never happen?
42. How did American involvement in the war between North and
South Vietnam evolve over time?
43. What was Vietnamization?
44. What happened after the United States withdrew from South
Vietnam?