3. Guiding Questions
● How and why did the educated elite in India lead the nationalist
movement?
● How did the goals of the Indian National Congress change after the Great
War?
12. Guiding Questions
● How did Gandhi’s spiritual and educational background influence his
teachings?
● What tactics and methods did Gandhi use to bring attention to the struggle
for independence in India?
● What changes came about with the India Act?
● What problems did India still fact despite the passage of the India Act?
26. Guiding Questions
● How did World War II affect the movement for self-rule in India?
● How did religious tensions in South Asia affect the independence
movement?
● What were the effects of the partition of India?
39. Guiding Questions
● Why did Turkey fight a war for independence?
● What was Atatürk’s vision for a new national identity?
● What effects did Atatürk’s ideas about secularism have on Turkish society?
● How could one argue that the Turkish government was both democratic
and authoritarian?
46. Guiding Questions
● What happened to the Arab territories after the Ottoman empire’s
collapse?
● What challenges did Arab states face after independence?
55. Guiding Questions
● What impact did European colonialism have on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict?
● What were the causes and immediate consequences of the UN Partition
Plan?
77. Guiding Questions
● How did Reza Shah establish the Pahlavi Dynasty?
● How did Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah try to modernize Iran? How
do their actions compare to that of Atatürk’s in Turkey?
83. Guiding Questions
● Why were the Iranian revolutionaries critical of Shah Pahlavi and the
United States?
● How did Ayatollah Khomeini gain power in Iran?
● What was the impact of the Iranian Revolution?
91. Guiding Questions
● What factors led to the Arab Spring uprisings?
● To what extent was the Arab Spring movement successful?
● What have been the major obstacles to change?
